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The Ray C. Stedman Memorial Library
Expanded Index with Summaries
 
 
Introduction
Ray C. Stedman was this century's great champion of expository preaching. Rather than topical preaching, which mon in many churches today, Ray believed the "whole counsel of God" was municated to God's people by systematically teaching through the entire Bible, usually an entire book at time. This included giving the sense of the passage (Nehemiah 8:8) and its application to contemporary living. In this way the Christian could build up a broad base of Biblical knowledge---since the Bible teaches truth on various topics, "here a little there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept." Ray's sermons were delivered with minimal notes and when transcribed into printed form rarely needed any editing. Ray was always prepared for questions afterwards. It is said that he mended to young pastors that they spend 20 hours of preparation for a one hour message.
Occasionally Ray would preach on an issue of critical current concern to his audience, or on an issue of basic foundational truth. These topical messages are usually to be found under the category of "Single Messages."
On this page we have attempted to very briefly summarize the overall content of Ray's available messages. A topical index is planned for the near future. A list of email contacts is included at the bottom of this Index.
 
Surveys of the Entire Bible
 
Panorama of the Scriptures, 13 messages. (DP# 188-200) The entire Bible is surveyed in 13 messages from Genesis through Revelation.
Adventuring Through the Bible, 67 messages, (201-267) Each book of the Bible is covered by a single message, plus one message on the 400 Silent years between the Testaments. Ray captures the theme of each book so clearly and concisely that these sermons and the tapes they were taken from have been very popular for more than 20 years.
Studies plete Books of the Bible
 
Genesis 1-11, 32 messages (301-332) This series on the firs