Best Sermons Ever (Compact Edition)

Each sermon in this new pocket-sized edition of a popular title is introduced by a short note on the preacher and his time, and a contemporary prayer is added at the end. The sermons range from hell fire to profound spiritual comfort.

Introduction

ix

Sermon One: Peter the Apostle

1

(4)

The end in view

St Ignatius

3

(2)

Sermon Two: John Chrysostom

5

(10)

Prayer for the Virgin's intercession, fourth century

10

(1)

Extract from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday: Christ's descent into the underworld

11

(2)

God's protection

St Patrick

13

(2)

Sermon Three: St Augustine

15

(4)

Night prayer

Alcuin

18

(1)

Sermon Four: Aelfric

19

(8)

Watch over me

St Dunstan

26

(1)

Sermon Five: St Bernard

27

(10)

Come, Creator Spirit

31

(1)

Sermon notes by Thomas Aquinas for the feast of St Bartholomew the Apostle

31

(3)

Prayer of giving

St Francis of Assisi

34

(1)

Private devotions

35

(2)

Sermon Six: The Homilies

37

(8)

Patience works

St Teresa of Avila

43

(2)

Sermon Seven: Lancelot Andrewes

45

(14)

Morning prayer

Lancelot Andrewes

57

(2)

Sermon Eight: John Donne

59

(20)

The call

George Herbert

78

(1)

Sermon Nine: Jeremy Taylor

79

(8)

Prayer

Book of Common Prayer

86

(1)

Sermon Ten: John Bunyan

87

(10)

Help for prisoners: Prayer after sentence of death

John Gother

95

(2)

Sermon Eleven: Jonathan Swift

97

(12)

Melancholy

Christopher Smart

106

(3)

Sermon Twelve: Jonathan Edwards

109

(18)

A prayer found in Mrs Chapone's handwriting after her death

Hester Chapone

125

(2)

Sermon Thirteen: John Wesley

127

(10)

A prayer that may be daily said by a woman in the state of pregnancy

Richard Challoner

135

(2)

Sermon Fourteen: Laurence Sterne

137

(6)

Hymn

Charles Wesley

142

(1)

Sermon Fifteen: Sydney Smith

143

(12)

Gunpowder treason

John Keble

154

(1)

Sermon Sixteen: John Henry Newman

155

(8)

The Blessed Sacrament

Gerard Manley Hopkins

162

(1)

Sermon Seventeen: Charles Spurgeon

163

(8)

Mary

Ronald Knox

170

(1)

Sermon Eighteen: Martin Luther King

171

(8)

Jesus

Mother Teresa

177

(2)

Sermon Nineteen: H.A. Williams

179

(12)

Extract from a sermon by Billy Graham, California, 1974

187

(3)

Prayer for murderers

Bishop Dehqani-Tafti

190

(1)

Sermon Twenty: Pope John Paul II

191

(6)

Sources and Further Reading

197

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