Busy Christian ministers and teachers find that they simply have no
time to write sermons, they can always turn to
www.lastminutesermon.com, a site started by Bob Austin. He started the
site to provide a last-minute service for a clergyman in need of a
sound, ready-to-deliver sermon.A typical sermon offered on the site can be preached in between eight to ten minutes, and costs about $12.50 to download. The
site’s sample sermon preaches the essence of a Passover in Jerusalem
2000 years ago. Austin goes on to preach that then, Jews awaited the
arrival of their messiah, who would,
according to Austin, bring in
their Golden Age by vanquishing the nations of the world and installing
an everlasting kingdom of David. Prior to that Passover, however, Jesus
had arrived on a donkey, signifying that he was that messiah but not
the
military one. The crowds, according to Austin, were bitterly
disappointed, and feeling cheated out of the military victories, turned
their backs on Jesus and asked the Roman rulers to crucify him.The
sample download says that with the destruction of the Temple came the
end of animal sacrifices, which was God’s demonstrating his
never-changing, unending love for humanity.Romans,
maintaining law and order, had to comply with the public sentiment and
crucify the troublemaker. After all, they crucified hundreds of Jews
years before just to make sure the crowds would learn the lesson and
forget the idea of rebelling against the Roman rule.Austin
says that preachers are getting bogged down with their shepherding
tasks as the writing of sermons is gradually sliding down the list of
the daily priorities, leaving the clergyman without a sermon to deliver
on Sunday.Sermons downloaded from the site come with a
permission to be edited to suit the tastes of the flock. The site has a
very simple structure: there is The Author, the FAQ, Free Sample,
Contact and How To Buy.