Historic Sermons
A podcast where historic Christian sermons are brought back to life through clear, modern audio readings. Each sermon is read directly from original documents by Matthew Fisher, including Victorian Anglo-Catholic mission sermons, urban slum preaching, evangelical devotional texts, and rare parish addresses.
These are primary sources—experienced as they would have sounded when first delivered
Historic Sermons
Christmas Morning: Father Arthur Stanton
Father Arthur Stanton’s Christmas Morning sermon is not about sentiment, nostalgia, or the calendar.
It is about time.
Stanton reminds us that Christmas is the moment when the eternal Son of God chose to enter history — taking a body, choosing poverty, and dwelling among the outcast so that humanity might be raised into eternity.
This is a sermon about the Incarnation, not as comfort but as confrontation:
if we stand with God, we must stand with the poor, the broken-hearted, and those pushed to the margins.
A powerful example of Victorian Anglo-Catholic preaching, this sermon shows why Stanton remains one of the most theologically intense and morally uncompromising voices of the Ritualist movement.
🎄 God came down into time — so that we might learn how to live in eternity.