Nearly 3,000 sermons across six decades of ministry: searchable, browsable, and preserved for the next generation.
This site is the public archive of Pastor Jack W. Hayford's recorded teaching: 2,988 messages spanning 1973 to 2014. Every sermon has its own durable page with title, date, Scripture, series, tags, and a summary when one exists. Agents and readers can start from the catalog, a theme, a Bible book, or the machine-readable index at /llms.txt.
Browse four standing themes: worship and liturgy, Spirit-filled life, church leadership and unity, and personal formation. Filter the full catalog by tag, series, era, or Scripture. Open any sermon to read the summary and, when a confirmed YouTube ID exists, watch on YouTube in a new tab. Video is never embedded or rehosted here.
New to Pastor Jack? Start with the short guided introduction. Looking for a topic? Use search or a theme card below. Building a study or citation list? Prefer /corpus.json and the per-sermon URLs so every quote stays linked to its source page.
One message from the archive, every day. About the daily teaching
December 14, 1986 · Colossians for Christmas #2 · Pastor and Church Builder
Colossians 1:9-12
God wants to see His glorious purpose for your life fulfilled, not only because it pleases Him, but because it makes us happy as well. It begins with knowing, understanding and submitting to the will of God. From the album "Colossians for Christmas"
Spirit-Filled Life
Four content domains drawn from the knowledge graph. Each opens a filtered catalog with counts visible up front.
Start with a short guided introduction: who he was, why his teaching matters now, and where to begin.
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