UPDATE: Turns out his Romans series was preached in 1980 and 1981. A woman on the S. Lewis Johnson Facebook group is working to figure out when his sermons were preached. Seems to me Johnson would have kept sermon lists - wherever those may be now.
I referred to said document in my previous post. I've added several dates to it, but
Lynda is responsible for most of it. She has probably listened to a few hundred more messages than I have. I think I might have suggested that knowing when a message was preached would be helpful, but I probably also doubted that the dates could be ascertained for so many of the series. But SLJ went off on a lot more rabbit trails and asides than many expository preachers do today. (Some of this may be because many of the messages were given on weeknights rather than Sunday mornings, and so were perhaps a little less formal.) There are enough references to current events to figure what year(s) most of the longer series were preached if not the "miscellaneous messages." There is a document in the FB group on the humor of SLJ that is derived from these asides as well as illustrations.
I haven't listened to SLJ regularly in a number of years. But it's helpful to know if a sermon was preached in 1968 or 1988 as he changed his views on particular redemption, the pretrib rapture and maybe a few other things. But those were the major ones that I can think of offhand.
Pastor Mike Abendroth was able to gain the permission of SLJ's heirs and edited (or adapted) "
Discovering Romans" which is based on the Romans series. My understanding is that he is working on Colossians now. Occasionally I listen to his podcast. I was somewhat distracted when I heard it, but I think I heard him say a while back that Zondervan, which had published the Romans volume, had taken a pass on Colossians and that he was looking for another publisher.
Believers Chapel would be the place to ask for a list of sermons. But most people will never make it through the 1500+ they have posted, which presumably includes all of the messages he preached there, plus some preached elsewhere, such as the Bunyan Conferences. He preached or taught at many different places through the years, churches, homes, etc. so an exhaustive list may not exist. Having such an exhaustive list is arguably a "modern" phenomenon except for those who may have kept exhaustive diaries.
I remember coming across a church in either Oregon or Washington State where he had given a series of messages in the early 80s. I may have them on a drive somewhere. There is a site called
Voices for Christ which has a lot of Brethren and similar preaching that has a lot of SLJ messages. But I think most if not all of those are from Believers Chapel. He also had a local radio broadcast in Dallas. I think that may have been independent of his ministry at Believers Chapel, meaning that it wasn't just recorded sermons. If so, I don't know whether or not recordings survive. He also pastored one or two other churches in the Dallas area before Believers Chapel started in the late 60s. I understand that he had some things on his computer but I don't know whether or not anyone has gotten access to that. I understand they did finally move his books from his house a few years ago. Apparently most of them went to Believers Chapel, but some were made available at an estate sale. Dan Wallace made a FB post about picking up one or two.
BTW, the
Believers Chapel website has all of his sermons, while the SLJ site does not. I gave up asking why. (Ditto for the mobile app.) The SLJ site used to have them, but some were not uploaded when it was redesigned a few years ago. One or both entities was working on correcting errors in the transcripts.
A new and improved website that in some respects is inferior to the old one reminds me of what happened with F.N. Lee's site after he died. The new one has pictures, etc. but a huge amount of content is missing.
