Sermons online especially helpful for lay readers

There is huge range of sermons online.

One of the gifts pastors can give to the wider church is to share their sermons either online or in a book.
Small congregations, congregations with lay readers and congregation's whose pastor becomes ill benefit from getting access to online sermons.
Following are some tips if you are a lay reader and where you can access sermons.

To find a sermon to match worship service readings.
To choose a sermon you will need to know what church year we are in and what current and previous dates relate to that church year.

Church Year Dates
Year A
Dec 2010-Nov 2011
Dec 2007-Nov 2008
Dec 2004 – Nov 2005
Year B
Dec 2008-Nov 2009
Dec 2005 – Nov 2006
Dec 2002-Nov 2003
Year C
Dec 2009 to Nov 2010
Dec 2006 – Nov 2007
Dec 2003-Nov 2004
*Note occasionally the church year begins on the last Sunday of November in some years.

You will also need to know the Sunday of the church year and the bible readings for that Sunday. The quickets find this is to visit a web site such as http://www.textweek.com/ which has a current date for the church year or visit your denomination's web site.

In choosing a sermon consider the following:
Is it faithful to scripture's understanding to God, God’s grace and our lives as disciples of Jesus?
Do you need to alter any examples so that it suits the context you are lay reading to?

Web Sites
The following web sites provide sermons from a Lutheran context.
Victorian District including Tasmania
http://www.vic.lca.org.au/Sermons.aspx


Bethlehem Lutheran Church Adelaide
http://www.bethlehemadelaide.org.au/sermons/index.html

Outer Eastern Lutheran Church
http://www.oelc.com.au/sermons/sermons2008.html


Pastor Edgar Mayer: Living Grace Lutheran Church
http://www.geocities.com/mayeredgar/sermons.htm


Pastor Heath Pukallas: Chinchilla Lutheran Church
http://friarpuk.blogspot.com/


Pastor Jim Strelan: Good News Lutheran Congregation Middle Park
http://www.goodnewslutheran.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=1&Itemid=28


Pastor Dr. John Thiel: Holy Cross Murray Bridge http://www.users.on.net/~holycross/holy_cross_lutheran_church.htm


Pastor Kevin Ruffcorn
http://www.sermoncentral.com/contributor_profile.asp?ContributorID=12485

Pastor Richard Schwedes
http://www.sermoncentral.com/contributor_profile.asp?ContributorID=29075

Pastor Stephen Pietsch: Ringwood Knox Parish
http://www.ringwoodknoxparish.org.au/resources/sermons.html

Pastor Tim Zingale
http://www.sermoncentral.com/contributor_profile.asp?ContributorID=12485

Pastor Vince Gerhardy: St Pauls Lutheran Church Caboolture
http://www.gerhardy.id.au/

Portland Heywood Lutheran Church
http://www.phlc.org.au/

Lutheran Sermons
http://lutheran-sermons.com/


If you regularly place your sermons on the web or know of someone who does and would like to recommend them, feel free to let me know.


Books
With the advent of the web there are less and less sermon books available. There is a book of sermons for lay readers available from LCA National Office visit http://www.lca.org.au/worship/publications.cfm.



http://www.cctoolkit.com/ is subscription based Worship resource product that includes a weekly sermon often related to the lectionary.



Also visit http://www.cph.org/ http://www.augbsurgfortress.org/ and http://www.nph.net/ they regularly list resources