Dollar Sermon Library Series

COMPLETE SERMON OUTLINES

by

Eric Hayden

BAKER BOOK HOUSE

Grand Rapids, Michigan

ISBN: 0-8010-4113-9

Copyright, 1974, by

Baker Book House

CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I—“Firsts”

1. My First Sermon in My First Church

2. My First Youth-for-Christ Address

3. My First Keswick Message

4. My First Radio Sermon

5. My First Television Sermon

6. My First Published Sermon

7. My First College Christian Union Address

8. My First Sermon in Spurgeon’s Tabernacle

Part II—“Specials”

9. Christmas

10. Passion

11. Easter

12. Ascension

13. Whitsun (Pentecost)

14. Harvest

15. Remembrance

16. Men’s Sunday

17. Women’s Sunday

18. Sunday School Anniversary

19. Church Anniversary

20. Choir Sunday

21. Ordination or Induction

22. Wedding

23. Funeral

24. Missionary Sunday

25. Bible Sunday

26. Watch Night

27. New Year

INTRODUCTION

Upon completing twenty-one years in the Christian ministry, I celebrated my “coming-of-age” by setting down for the encouragement of others (as well as for personal thanksgiving) how God had blessed the years of “hard labor” for Him. When God Takes Over was my theme, and I tried to show how God had taken over in my life (converting me and calling me to the ministry) and in the lives of others.

Now, after a quarter of a century in the ministry, I feel led to reveal the kind of preaching that God has blessed. Not that I consider myself “the greatest” preacher or even an expert. I only wish to help and encourage that great army of full-time and part-time, ordained and lay preachers, Bible school and seminary students, who week by week have to prepare and deliver two sermons each week and perhaps a children’s talk and a midweek Bible study as well.

As Dr. Ralph G. Turnbull has written: “The task of sermon preparation is a delight when the busy pastors knows what to prepare. But there are days when there is no stirring of the wind, and he feels like a ship becalmed.” It is for such days that I write, praying that someone, somewhere, at some time or other will take one of my “bare bones” or “skeletons” and, with the Holy Spirit’s help, clothe the framework with living flesh. I can give only outlines because the only full-length sermons I have kept are those that have been published.

I do not claim originality in every case. Often I, too, have resorted to helpful books such as this and have been indebted to a great host of preachers over the years. I do not think any of them would claim copyright for their outlines, so I repeat some of them here, allowing others to take them and develop them as the Spirit of God dictates.

Since each of these sermons has blessed some unconverted person, blackslider, or Christian desiring greater sanctification, I briefly introduce some of them, telling what prompted the sermon, or how God used it to the spiritual and eternal benefit of the hearer(s).

I have selected sermons that are textual, topical, expository, doctrinal, evangelistic—in fact, every kind that I can think ...