Preaching podcast
New communications media have all sorts of possibilities for Pastors. Blogs, I think, could be great for the Reverend whose parsonage is too far out in the woods to meet with other Pastors and discuss the week's lectionary--post the lectionary text and comment back and forth on it.
Or, for those who can meet, they could record the conversation they have and podcast it or post a transcript for Pastors that are not in as close community.
It is now easy as pie for Pastors to record their Sunday sermons and choir anthems and podcast them so anybody could listen to 'em from their computer or iPod. Really, we at the seminary could do that from our chapel for our Tuesday and Wednesday sermons, if the school were really interested in publicizing it. (And maybe there's legal issues--I dunno.)
One podcast that's been fun for me to listen to is "- Voices From the Past." From their description:
You can pick it up here: http://www.sermonindex.net/vftp.xml.
Right now I'm listening to an audio compilation of sermons with instrumental music of varying kinds in the background. Whoever composed it even paid attention to left channel/right channel stuff to augment the rhetoric.
I'm sure that the theology is suspect in many of the sermons. This one included a preacher talking about how "I went to Africa thinking I could preach to the savages the word of God, but I found that they already heard it--and had rejected it! A continent of willful savages reveling in sin and they will deserve to burn in Hell." Not even Bruce Wilkinson gets that bad.
However, for those into Christian oral tradition, it's like going to a museum. I feel sorry for the souls led astray by some of these men (mostly), but I think I do learn some from hearing them preach.
Or, for those who can meet, they could record the conversation they have and podcast it or post a transcript for Pastors that are not in as close community.
It is now easy as pie for Pastors to record their Sunday sermons and choir anthems and podcast them so anybody could listen to 'em from their computer or iPod. Really, we at the seminary could do that from our chapel for our Tuesday and Wednesday sermons, if the school were really interested in publicizing it. (And maybe there's legal issues--I dunno.)
One podcast that's been fun for me to listen to is "- Voices From the Past." From their description:
Hear some of the most famous sermons preached in the last 100 years in audio form. Be blessed to hear treasures that haven t been heard by many in this generation.
You can pick it up here: http://www.sermonindex.net/vftp.xml.
Right now I'm listening to an audio compilation of sermons with instrumental music of varying kinds in the background. Whoever composed it even paid attention to left channel/right channel stuff to augment the rhetoric.
I'm sure that the theology is suspect in many of the sermons. This one included a preacher talking about how "I went to Africa thinking I could preach to the savages the word of God, but I found that they already heard it--and had rejected it! A continent of willful savages reveling in sin and they will deserve to burn in Hell." Not even Bruce Wilkinson gets that bad.
However, for those into Christian oral tradition, it's like going to a museum. I feel sorry for the souls led astray by some of these men (mostly), but I think I do learn some from hearing them preach.
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