SERMONS:
“I’m listening to your sermons off your Primitive Methodist website. Thus far have heard 6 and found them most enjoyable, informative and challenging” (Tony Treasure, former missionary, Berat, Albania)
You can select from sermons on a range of themes preached by David Young at churches in Wrexham and elsewhere. Scroll down and click on your choice. These are followed by two sermons by the late Norman Parker, recorded at Hadlow when David was pastor there, and two by David Obbard, the minister who married David and Margaret in 1973.
David writes:
Over the years I have had the privilege of preaching in different parts of Britain, and in France, Switzerland, Germany, mainland Italy, Sicily, Albania, Kosova, and Greece, and have participated in evangelism in Austria (1966, 1967), Spain (1967), and Sweden (1988). A number of the sermons I preached at Bradley Road Baptist Church, Wrexham, Zion Baptist Church, Penycae, Providence Chapel, Hookgate, and elsewhere have been recorded, and can be heard via the links the links below.
I have suggested some themes grouped under headings, but that is only a rough guide: a number of sermons fit as well into one group as into another.
Please note that as there were a number of churches and kinds of recording equipment, the volume may not be the same on all the recordings, and you may need to turn it up or down on your speakers for the best level. Listen with blessing; may God speak to you.
Finally, there is a link to some sermons of which the preaching notes were expanded to continuous prose, and which you may quietly, prayerfully and thoughtfully read.
SERMONS ON HOLY COMMUNION
- UNDERSTANDING WHAT JESUS DID ON THE CROSS
- THE BREAD OF COMMUNION, A SYMBOL AND MORE THAN A SYMBOL
- HOLY COMMUNION AND BREAD FROM HEAVEN
- HOLY COMMUNION AND THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB
THE CHURCH, DECLINE, REVIVAL
- THE CHURCH AND THE CHRISTIAN, DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD
- THE LORD WHOM YOU SEEK WILL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE (Malachi 3)
- IF THE FOUNDATIONS ARE DESTROYED, WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO?
- REVIVAL (Genesis 4:26)
- REVIVAL: THE NEED AND THE POSSIBILITY
- ERROR IN THE CHURCH, DIVISION, FALLING AWAY
- LOSS OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN ALBANIA AND BRITAIN, GOD’S CONCERN, OUR CALL TO PRAYER AND WORK
FOR TIMES OF TROUBLE
- HABAKKUK: waiting for God in times of distress
- CALL ME MARA, FOR THE ALMIGHTY HAS DEALT VERY BITTERLY WITH ME (Ruth 1:20; 19½ minutes)
- “THE ALMIGHTY HAS DEALT VERY BITTERLY WITH ME” (Ruth 1:20; 27 minutes)
- FACING A DESPERATE SITUATION
- NATIONAL DISASTER, NEED FOR BLESSING IN CHURCH AND IN EVANGELISM, INDIVIDUAL NEED, PRAYER TOGETHER AND ALONE
- BALM IN GILEAD: COMFORT IN TROUBLING TIMES
- PREPARING FOR THE DAY OF TROUBLE
BIBLE CHARACTERS
- ABRAHAM THE FRIEND OF GOD
- JESUS’S FAMILY Some of Jesus’s ancestors listed in the Gospels, their hopes for their children – and whether or how they were fulfilled: click this link https://youtu.be/_afHo0ZmTOY
- SIMON the MAGICIAN (Acts 8)
- ELIPHAZ the TEMANITE
- JACOB: his dream of the ladder between heaven and earth
- DAVID, ABSALOM, TAMAR and AMNON – and GOD’S DEEP MERCY
- JAMES, THE LORD’S BROTHER, AND THE CHURCH HE LED
- SEEKING THE GOD JACOB KNEW
- LOT: OUR UNWORTHINESS, GOD’S DETERMINATION
ON THE BIBLE
- THE BIBLE: GOD’S REVELATION FOR US TO KNOW HIM
THE CROSS: THE ATONEMENT AT CALVARY
- HE SAVED OTHERS, HIMSELF HE CANNOT SAVE
- JESUS MUST SUFFER MANY THINGS AND BE KILLED (Matthew 16:21)
- WHY WAS IT NECESSARY FOR JESUS TO BE GOD (AS WELL AS HUMAN) IN ORDER TO SAVE US?
- WHY WAS IT NECESSARY FOR GOD TO BECOME HUMAN IN ORDER TO SAVE US?
- SEVEN WAYS TO UNDERSTAND JESUS’S ACHIEVEMENT AT THE CROSS
- GUILT REMOVED IN A SINGLE DAY
CHRISTIAN CHARACTER
- THE USE OF THE TONGUE
- HUMILITY
- LOVE YOUR ENEMIES (ISAIAH 15)
There is also a video version of this sermon on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BchjYB93OCs - FRIENDSHIP: JESUS, US, OTHERS (21 minutes)
- OUR STANDARD: LOVE FOR GOD AND OUR NEIGHBOUR
DEVOTIONAL
- LOSING SALVATION (Hebrews 10)
- THE DIVIDING WALL OF HOSTILITY
- “LIKE THE FIRST FRUIT ON THE FIG TREE” – recovering one’s early devotion (Hosea 9:1-12; 16 minutes)
- “MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE” [There is a longer version of this sermon in the next section entitled Guidance]
- MANKIND’S DARKNESS, JESUS THE LIGHT
- SECURITY: YOUR SALVATION IS GOD’S WILL (18½ minutes)
- AGREE WITH GOD, AND BE AT PEACE
- KEEPING OR RECOVERING OUR FIRST DEVOTION
- KNOWING GOD FROM NATURE, SCRIPTURE AND JESUS CHRIST
- TRUST AMONG ALL CIRCUMSTANCES IN GOD’S PROVIDENCE
- SENSE OF EXILE – PAST BLESSINGS LOST
- “DO NOT SEEK BETHEL”: LIVING ON PAST GLORY
- CALLED TO GOD’S SERVICE (AMOS 7)
- MISPLACED TRUST
- RECOGNISING AND RENOUNCING SIN
- THE THRESHING FLOOR OF ARAUNAH
- THE 3 R’s: OUR RUIN, OUR REPENTANCE, OUR REDEMPTION
GUIDANCE
- DISCERNING GOD’S GUIDANCE; SOME PRINCIPLES
- THE DAY I SAID ‘NO’ TO GOD (extracts of less than 10 minutes from a sermon preached at Ruabon in 2021)
- THE HORSE OR THE MULE (Psalm 32)
- GOD’S GUIDANCE: PAUL AT PHILIPPI
- “MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE”: THE LORD SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN IN CALL AND GUIDANCE
- “SHOULD I LEAVE MY WINE, WHICH CHEERETH GOD AND MAN?” (Be the person God made you)
SEASONAL, THE CHURCH’S YEAR
- FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT Haggai 2:1-9
- ADVENT The Second Letter of John
- BETHLEHEM, SORROW, AND THE FIRST CHRISTMAS
- PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN (16 minutes)
- MISTLETOE, SYMBOL OF LOVE (15 minutes)
- NEW YEAR: “THE HOPES AND FEARS”
- WE THREE KINGS: events and meaning of Epiphany
- LENT 20 minutes on John 8:46-59 for the fifth Sunday in Lent: who Jesus said he was, why people don’t believe him, and how we can respond. https://youtu.be/cTNTcUl-qow
- EASTER: A GOD OF SECOND (AND MORE) CHANCES
- CHRIST’S ASCENSION TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
- REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY (2021)
- REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY (2022)
- HARVEST
ESCHATOLOGY: THE END
- THAT YOU MAY NOT GRIEVE AS OTHERS DO
- CHRIST’S RESURRECTION AND OURS
- THE REVEALING OF THE SONS OF GOD
- SIGNS OF THE END
- THE DAY WHEN I MAKE UP MY JEWELS (Malachi)
- THE SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION
- THE LAKE OF FIRE: THE SECOND DEATH
- BELIEVERS AT THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST
- THE EVERLASTING JOY OF THE REDEEMED
- THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH sermon videoed, January 2023 https://youtu.be/xq89M7dvBEM
Preaching in Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily
TWO SERMONS BY NORMAN PARKER
The late Norman Parker lived in Borough Green, Kent, and afterwards in nearby Seal. These are the only two sermons I know of that were recorded in the Baptist chapel in Hadlow whilst I was minister there. Norman was a good friend to my wife and to me, both before and after we were married, and was my best man on 28th July 1973. A lively and passionate preacher, his life and his preaching were full of Christ.
- REAL FAITH AND ITS OUTWORKINGS
- I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH
TWO SERMONS BY DAVID OBBARD
The late David Obbard was pastor at Rehoboth Baptist Chapel, Tunbridge Wells, and conducted our wedding at Borough Green chapel in July 1973. These sermons speak of God’s total forgiveness of his people’s wrongdoings, and of God’s promised permanent presence with them.
Morning: When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee
Evening: I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins
SERMONS TO READ
If you turn to the part of this website called “My Books” you will find a pdf on backsliding from earlier ardour and spiritual service and returning to God. This book is in fact the essence of twenty of my sermons, and may be read, either in short readings of each sermon or as an entire book (130 pages) by clicking here and scrolling down to the appropriate entry:
My Books