Curing Insomnia One Sermon at a Time

We used to record sermons on cassette tapes. Then we recorded them to CDs. Now we're taking the next step: digital recording, internet distribution.

When we recorded to cassette tapes, we made two copies. These piled up week after week until a decent sermon came along and both tapes were snatched up never to be seen again. I still have piles of old, cringe-worthy sermons from my early years and I'm still considering how best to destroy the evidence archive them.

When we began recording to CDs, which made notably shorter stacks, we began making copies to order. When someone wanted a sermon we made them a their own copy and put the master copy back in the stack. The problem was that copying CDs took a little bit of time and making a professional looking label took even longer (thanks, Mike, for all your work).

Now we're working out the kinks to record the sermons digitally. It'll go straight to a hard drive, be compressed to an MP3 format and get uploaded to the website as soon as someone can make it happen. If someone wants to hear our sermons they can just listen to the website or download it their iPod or phone or they can make a CD themselves. For those who aren't comfortable using the internet in this way, we can still make a CD for them (sorry, Mike).

I'm hoping we get this up and running in the next few months but some of it depends on working out some solutions for the website itself. Nevertheless, this is the way we'll be going soon and I'm sure it will be a much more effective way of distributing these messages.