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Southern Baptist Convention Sermons

When the Baptists in the South split from those in the North to form their own convention in 1845, the issue was slave ownership, but the purpose was missions. From the beginning, according to records of the proceedings, the Annual or Convention Sermon was an important part of the meeting. It was preached on the first night by a preacher or an alternate appointed the previous year, and its emphasis was foreign missions. (A home, or domestic mission, sermon was preached the second night.) Since those early day, the Southern Baptist Convention has featured a “Convention Sermon.” On this site, the staff of the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives has sought to find copies or at least description of these sermons from 1845 to 2019. Sermons were not available or found from many of the early years. Some of these sermons are available on audio or video recordings.


  • 1846 W. .B Johnson
  • 1851 R. B. C. Howell
  • 1859 R. B. C. Howell
  • 1861 Richard Fuller
  • 1881 Sylvanus Landrum
  • 1882 T. T. Eaton
  • 1883 John A Broadus
  • 1884 Lansing Burrows
  • 1889 J. P. Greene
  • 1890 J. W. Carter
  • 1892 J. B. Gambrell
  • 1893 William E. Hatcher
  • 1894 F. H. Kerfoot
  • 1895 George B. Eager
  • 1896 Charles Stakley
  • 1897 R. A. Venable
  • 1898 B. L. Whitman
  • 1899 George W. Truett
  • 1900 J. J. Taylor
  • 1901 E. Y. Mullins
  • 1902 F. C. Mcconnell
  • 1904 W. W. Landrum
  • 1905 W. H. Felix
  • 1906 W. R. L. Smith
  • 1907 A. J. Dickinson
  • 1908 Henry W. Battle
  • 1909 E. C. Dargan
  • 1910 W. L. Pickard
  • 1911 C. S. Gardner
  • 1912 Z. T. Cody
  • 1913 Thomas O'kelley
  • 1914 George W. Mcdaniel
  • 1915 J. W. Porter
  • 1916 Charles W. Daniel
  • 1917 Claude W. Duke
  • 1918 W. H. Geistweit
  • 1919 M. E. Dodd
  • 1920 J. J. Taylor
  • 1921 H. L. Wilburn
  • 1925 Len G. Broughton
  • 1926 F. F. Brown
  • 1927 Wallace Bassett
  • 1928 J. R. Hobbs
  • 1929 William L. Ball
  • 1930 R. G. Lee
  • 1931 John W. Phillips
  • 1932 W. Marshall Craig
  • 1933 J. Clyde Turner
  • 1933 J. L. White
  • 1934 T. L. Holcomb
  • 1935 J. B. Weatherspoon
  • 1936 John A. Huff
  • 1937 Solon B. Cousins
  • 1938 E. P. J. Garrott
  • 1939 Perry F. Webb
  • 1940 W. R. White
  • 1941 J. Clyde Turner
  • 1942 Ellis Fuller
  • 1944 John H. Buchanan
  • 1946 J. W. Storer
  • 1947 W. A. Criswell
  • 1948 W. R. Pettigrew
  • 1949 Norman W. Cox
  • 1950 R. C. Campbell
  • 1951 C. Roy Angell
  • 1952 Ramsey Pollard
  • 1953 James Landes
  • 1954 Slater Murphy
  • 1955 Monroe Swilly
  • 1956 Harry Stagg
  • 1957 Herschel Hobbs
  • 1958 Robert Naylor
  • 1959 R. Paul Caudill
  • 1960 Ralph Herring
  • 1961 A. B. Van Arsdale
  • 1962 Franklin Pascall
  • 1963 Carl Bates
  • 1964 Enoch Brown
  • 1965 John Haldeman
  • 1966 Ray Roberts
  • 1967 Landrum Leavell II
  • 1968 Douglas Hudgins
  • 1969 Scott Tatum
  • 1970 Grady Cothen
  • 1971 John Claypool
  • 1972 E. Hermond Westmoreland
  • 1973 Dotson Nelson
  • 1974 R. J. Robinson
  • 1975 Jimmy Allen
  • 1976 Warren Hultgren
  • 1977 William Self
  • 1978 Jesse Fletcher
  • 1979 William M. Hinson
  • 1980 Ed Young
  • 1981 James L. Monroe
  • 1982 William E. Hull
  • 1983 James L. Pleitz
  • 1984 Russell H. Dilday
  • 1985 Charles G. Fuller
  • 1986 Adrian Rogers
  • 1987 Jerry Vines
  • 1988 Joel Gregory
  • 1989 Morris Chapman
  • 1990 Fred H. Wolfe
  • 1991 Tom Elliff
  • 1992 Lewis A. Drummond
  • 1993 Jack Graham
  • 1994 Bobby Boyles
  • 1995 R. Albert Mohler
  • 1996 Ronnie Floyd
  • 1997 Richard Land
  • 1998 James Merritt
  • 1999 Ralph Smith
  • 2000-Bailey Smith
  • 2001 Fred Luter Jr
  • 2002 Claude Thomas
  • 2003 O. S. Hawkins
  • 2004 Steve Gaines
  • 2005 Ken Whitten
  • 2006 Don Wilson
  • 2007 Rob Zinn
  • 2008 Al Gilbert
  • 2009 John E. Marshall
  • 2010 Mac Brunson
  • 2011 David Platt
  • 2012 David Uth
  • 2013 Daniel L. Akin
  • 2014 John Meador
  • 2015 Eddie Bumpers
  • 2016 Ted Traylor
  • 2017 Roger Spradlin
  • 2018 Kie Bowman
  • 2019 Stephen Rummage

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