The Kyle Monroe Yates, Sr. Collection is located at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. The collection consists of sermons of Kyle Monroe Yates, Sr. in his role as pastor in the 1940s and 1950s. The topics cover a wide range of subjects from both the Old and New Testaments. Other prominent sermon topics include texts on America and practical applications of Christian living. This web presentation of over 230 mostly handwritten sermons represents a portion of the sermons in the Yates archival collection. The sermons are arranged in alphabetical order with the dates Yates preached the sermons indicated in parentheses, when known.
Kyle Monroe Yates, Sr. was born in Apex, North Carolina, on February 7, 1895. He was a graduate of Wake Forest College (A.B., 1916; A.M., 1917), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1920; Th.D., 1922), and the University of Edinburgh (Ph.D., 1932). He was ordained in 1916 and served as pastor to several churches in North Carolina and Kentucky, 1917-1928; Walnut Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, 1942-1946; and Second Church in Houston, Texas, 1946-1956. Yates was professor of Old Testament at Southern Seminary, 1922-1942; distinguished professor at Baylor University, 1956-1971; and second vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1955. He was a prolific writer and authored numerous books, mostly related to Old Testament studies. Among his best remembered books were: The Essentials of Biblical Hebrew (1938), Preaching from the Prophets (1942), Preaching from the Psalms (1948), Studies in Psalms (1953), Preaching from Great Bible Chapters (1957), and Preaching from John’s Gospel (1964). He married Margaret Webb Sharp, August 24, 1922. He died February 15, 1975, in Waco, Texas.
