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Peter Woodcock works with the Co-Mission Initiative, a church planting group in London, and is Co-Pastor of Fairfield Church, Kingston. Previously he worked as a church evangelist in London and has been involved in missions in the UK and abroad.

This talk called “Whatever Happened to the ‘S’ Word?” was delivered in 2003 at The Evangelists Conference held in the UK. In it Pete describes the white washing of sin that has occurred in our culture. Sin has been reduced to behaviorism and sinners have been recast as victims of their environment. With speed and passion Pete describes the seriousness of sin using both cultural references (like Pulp Fiction and Silence of the Lambs and shampoo commercials) and biblical grounding (the Genesis 3 account). Throughout he is engaging and enthusiastic. Though he does not share the solution to sin (that was the next person’s job during the conference) he builds a case that before one repents and accepts Jesus as Christ we are all sinners and if we do not include the conviction of sin in our evangelism we are chopping the arms and legs off the gospel. Enjoy!

The following sermon was preached last Sunday by Victor Gluckin at Living Faith Christian Church. The message cut “Churchianity” from true Christianity like a knife. Following Jesus is more than just attending a meeting an hour a week. It is more than just mentally assenting to a list of doctrines. It is more than having an emotional experience during the worship songs. It is more than mere behavior modification. We need to “be Jesus” in the easy situations but also when it is unpopular, awkward, or dangerous. Click the play button below to watch this rousing and timely presentation of true commitment to and identification with the Messiah.

This sermon was preached by Keith Daniel an evangelist from Cape Town, South Africa. I’m not really sure what his denominational affiliation is but he associates with various holiness movements. This particular sermon is all about spending time with God. How well do you guard the quiet time you have with God? Keith asserts that this one Christian practice is the determining factor to living a holy life. The text for the sermon is taken from the parable of the vine given in John 15.

Shocking Youth Message by Paul Washer. He Was Never Invited Back

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This was preached in 2002 to a youth evangelism conference to approx. 5,000 Southern Baptists. Paul Washer is a missionary who has spent years in the Andes Mountains of Peru and in Eastern Euroupe. His missionary organization is called Heart Cry. This sermon was preached to confront the modern notion that saying a prayer one time results in eternal salvation. The text is Matthew chapter seven. Although Paul himself believes in once-saved-always-saved he is not at all wishy washy about the doctrine. He contends that anyone who has not both had a genuine conversion (i.e. his or her life is completely changed) and live a holy life was never saved in the first place. Furthermore, he is a Calvinistic Southern Baptist which means he believes in the Trinity, heaven-at-death, eternal hell (yikes!), cross as gospel (no kingdom), and the predestination of all believers (and unbelievers). Regardless, what he says in this message is very biblical and much needed no matter what one’s doctrine of these other beliefs is. This sermon was one of the first sermons many of us heard that spoke of a radical conversion followed by a radical lifestyle of continual obedience. I would be interested in any thoughts you might have about it.

Jesse Morrell is an open air preacher. He travels around and does evangelism at college campuses throughout the US. In addition he travels to churches and preaches indoors occasionally. He is only in his 20s and this sermon may have been done when he was still a teenager. It is called Uncompromising Holiness and it emphasizes the fact that as Christians we need to hunger and thirst for righteousness. We cannot allow ourselves to be satisfied with just being more moral than the world. Though I disagree with Jesse on a number of theological points (he believes in the Trinity and heaven at death), I found this particular sermon to be extraordinary. He clearly articulates the need for the church to be holy before God without compromise.

Paris Reidhead devoted his life to communicating the message of the Gospel in America and throughout the world. A student pastor in the rural Minnesota at age eighteen, Mr. Reidhead felt led of the Lord to overseas mission work. In 1945, Paris Reidhead and Marjorie, his wife of two years, traveled under the auspices of the Sudan Interior Mission to the Sudan-Ethiopia Border where they surveyed and analyzed tribal languages in preparation for evangelism and education in this area. More about Paris here

Keith Daniel is a preacher and an evangelist from South Africa. In this audio file he shares the story of his father and how he came to repent. His dad lived through the great depression, World War II, and the economic boom that followed. As he rose to prominence in the business world, the stresses mounted so he turned to alcohol. He would drink early in the morning and late into the night. I won’t ruin the rest of the story for you, but suffice it to say it is one of the most staggering testimonies to God’s amazing grace and love I’ve ever heard.

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