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For a while, sermons at St Paul's have been recorded.
Actually, that's not quite true. We've been a bit hit and miss in the process, so not many sermons made it onto tape. Tape? Yes, we have still been using the good old-fashioned C90 to record sermons.
Only one copy of a tape was made each Sunday, so if you wanted to hear a copy, you'd have to wait for a copy to be made. No archives were kept either.
Just recently, someone asked if we could make copies of the new series of sermons on the theme, "Jesus never said..." I thought this was a good idea, so after experimenting with my son's MP3 player, I found we could make a reasonable quality recording without too much trouble. I hope you'll find it easy to locate a sermon that you want to listen to, or to read (some sermons are not written in full, so text copies may not always be available).
This is all still very experimental. We'll see if the idea catches on before pledging to do it for evermore.
Changing patterns of church attendance mean that many people don't get to church every week. We understand this and want to do what we can to support people in their faith and in their busy lives. So an .mp3 sermon which can be listened to at a PC, or even downloaded to an ipod, might help a little.
Of course, we also want to say that coming to church is important! No matter how good the recording, you'll never really enter the experience of lively and engaging Christian worship at home.
Finally, I understand that listening to a 5Mb .mp3 file over a dial-up connection might be a bit tedious. If you want an audio CD copy, please email me. It takes a little while to do this, so don't expect a copy by return. But we'll see what we can do.
Finally again (a preacher's bad habit!) please let us know whether all this is a good idea or not. Use the comment feature to express yourself.
Actually, that's not quite true. We've been a bit hit and miss in the process, so not many sermons made it onto tape. Tape? Yes, we have still been using the good old-fashioned C90 to record sermons.
Only one copy of a tape was made each Sunday, so if you wanted to hear a copy, you'd have to wait for a copy to be made. No archives were kept either.
Just recently, someone asked if we could make copies of the new series of sermons on the theme, "Jesus never said..." I thought this was a good idea, so after experimenting with my son's MP3 player, I found we could make a reasonable quality recording without too much trouble. I hope you'll find it easy to locate a sermon that you want to listen to, or to read (some sermons are not written in full, so text copies may not always be available).
This is all still very experimental. We'll see if the idea catches on before pledging to do it for evermore.
Changing patterns of church attendance mean that many people don't get to church every week. We understand this and want to do what we can to support people in their faith and in their busy lives. So an .mp3 sermon which can be listened to at a PC, or even downloaded to an ipod, might help a little.
Of course, we also want to say that coming to church is important! No matter how good the recording, you'll never really enter the experience of lively and engaging Christian worship at home.
Finally, I understand that listening to a 5Mb .mp3 file over a dial-up connection might be a bit tedious. If you want an audio CD copy, please email me. It takes a little while to do this, so don't expect a copy by return. But we'll see what we can do.
Finally again (a preacher's bad habit!) please let us know whether all this is a good idea or not. Use the comment feature to express yourself.
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