I spoke recently to our ‘Knowing God’ small group leaders about the benefits of hearing seomone else expound the scriptures. Whilst there’s always the danger of plagiarism and passing off someone else’s material as your own there are massive benefits from getting familiar with the text and hearing someone else’s perspective on the passage. A few weeks before leading a Bible study it’s worth downloading a talk and listening to it. God’s word can then ’simmer in the pot’ for a while as we think over the issues.

The following are links to free audio sermons.

Apologetics

Talks can be found at the UCCF sponsored web site http://www.bethinking.org/. They provide three levels of talks; intorductory, intermediate and advanced.

Theology

There are excellent online resources for those who want some theological training. These two provide access to some of the finest contemporary evangelical theologians.

• http://www.biblicaltraining.org/index.php
• http://www.monergism.com/

Ministry

Nine Marks Ministry, an off-shoot of Capitol Hill Baptist, is a great place to hear practical ministry issues discussed http://resources.christianity.com/default/mrki.aspx

Expository Sermons

UK sites

• Co-Mission Initiative, hear sermons from the likes of Coekin, Standring, Woodcock and even Perkins at http://www.christchurchbalham.org.uk/ccb/sermons.php!
• Graham Beynon is building up a record of talks at http://www.avenuecommunitychurch.org.uk/sermons.asp. He’s the pastor in charge of Avenue Community Church, author of a couple of excellent paperbacks on the church and the Spirit and a personal friend!
• St John’s Newland, Hull is home to Melvin Tinker and Nathan Buttery. http://www.stjohnnewland.org.uk/serm.asp
• St Helen’s have made their talks available at http://sthelens.audiop.org.uk/home. Many of these downloads are free. This is where you’ll hear Dick Lucas, William Taylor and Nigel Beynon amongst many other fine preachers.
• Jonathan Fletcher will teach you how to talk properly and teach the Bible at http://www.wimbledon.org.uk/sermons/
• All Souls Church, London has sermons from John Stott, Rico Tice and others. http://www.allsouls.org/ascm/allsouls/static/sermons/home.html
• St Andrew’s the Great, Cambridge is the place to go to hear Mark Ashton and the staff members he’s employed over the years. http://www.stag.org/insearchorder.shtml
• Marcus Nodder and the team at the Barge can be found at. http://www.stpetersbarge.org/talks.html. They have a range of shorter mid week talks as well as their Sunday sermons.

Australian Sites

• Philip Jensen can be found for free at http://www.cathedral.sydney.anglican.asn.au/pages/downloads-raquo.php. His other material usually costs and is available via the Matthias Media web site. This also has some stuff from John Woodhouse which is excellent.
• Christ Church St Ives, Sydney is home to Andrew Graham and also a number of excellent Australian speakers like Peter and Philip Jensen, Peter O’Brien, Paul Barnett and Mark Thompson. Sadly all the John Woodhouse material has been removed and is available only through purchase. http://audio.christchurch.com.au/
• Dominic Steele from Christians in the Media is available here http://www.christiansinthemedia.org/downloads/index.html
• Andrew Heard from Christ Church Central Coast, New South Wales is here. This is the man upon whom planting a church in the area was declared by the local press to be ‘the Sinister Minister’!http://www.ccec.com.au/mp3_files.php
• Bryson Smith is available here http://sermons.dpc.org.au/index.htm
• The Sydney Diocesan web site has a vast page of links here http://your.sydneyanglicans.net/indepth/mp3_library/. This gives you access to some fo Australia’s finest.

American Sites

• J Ligon Duncan, the pastor at First Presbyterian, Jackson Mississipi is available here http://www.fpcjackson.org/resources/sermons/index.htm
• People speak very highly of Mark Driscoll, the pastor of Mars Hill, Seattle and here’s to be found http://media.marshillchurch.org/. Be warned, however, this is not for the faint hearted. He’s not known as the ‘cussing pastor’ for nothing!
• Dale Ralph Davis is brilliant in print and he’s recently taken over as pastor of Woodland Presbyterian http://www.woodlandpca.com/html/sermons.html. His Old Testament sermons in particular will be gems.
• John Piper, the man behind the Desiring God materials is also a pastor and his sermons are here http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/
• Mark Dever, the Senior Pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington DC can be heard at http://www.capitolhillbaptist.org/.

There will be others I’ve forgotten or not accessed as yet. I’ll keep you posted and this updated.