Now podcasting to an audio player near you...
What can I say? I'm a slave to trendiness. I've been blogging for years - it's time for me to follow the crowd like the sheep that I am, and begin podcasting, as well.
Podcasting is essentially the same as blogging, only with an audio file instead of written words. Lots of people are creating their own "radio" programs online by sitting themselves and a few friends down in front of a microphone, and loading the files up to the Web for all to hear. Just like it's possible to subscribe to blogs like mine, and get each new update delivered to you, it's also easy to subscribe to a podcast. In fact, the word comes from (duh!) iPods, which have been a favorite way to snatch new podcasts up as they come and listen to them on the go.
It's a natural fit for me, actually. I've been posting my sermons online in manuscript form for some time now, and have even excerpted teasers from them to post here on the blog from time to time. Why not make recordings of the sermons available, too? And if they're going to be online, why not use an easy distribution method to get them "out there" in a format many people are already using?
If you don't have the tools to subscribe to my sermon podcasts, you can always view them at http://odeo.com/channel/101968/view. They'll appear as a special blog page there that has a built-in audio player for you to click on. I'll also try to post them here in the blog at the same time as they go online with the official podcast.
Why the sudden enthusiasm for podcasting? It's simply, actually - I haven't been recording my sermons previously, but now I am. I discovered that it's a lot more fun to preach "in the moment" from notes, rather than from a fully composed manuscript. I spend so much more time looking at my people, and I really enjoy not knowing precisely how things are going to "turn out." I know the general contours of my sermon well, but letting the specific words come as they may each time I deliver the sermon is exciting.
Problem has been that I'd have no written recored to post that way. (It's silly to me to write out a full manuscript and then just memorize it, except for a few very specific occasions.) Without a secretary that I'd feel right asking to transcribe my sermons for me, it just didn't work well.
I've since picked up a decent digital voice recorder, which not only allows me to easily capture my sermons, but to upload them to my computer and play them back as slow as .5 speed, making it much easier to transcribe them myself. And if I'm already going that far, it's hardly any more effort to podcast the sermons once I'm done transcribing them.
So, here's the first one. It was preached at the St. Rose Care Center in Lamoure at chapel, so it's a little different delivery than I'm used to giving (particularly in speaking rather loudly so everyone can hear). You can post comments here, or go to the podcast page and post your comments there for others to read.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Podcasting is essentially the same as blogging, only with an audio file instead of written words. Lots of people are creating their own "radio" programs online by sitting themselves and a few friends down in front of a microphone, and loading the files up to the Web for all to hear. Just like it's possible to subscribe to blogs like mine, and get each new update delivered to you, it's also easy to subscribe to a podcast. In fact, the word comes from (duh!) iPods, which have been a favorite way to snatch new podcasts up as they come and listen to them on the go.
It's a natural fit for me, actually. I've been posting my sermons online in manuscript form for some time now, and have even excerpted teasers from them to post here on the blog from time to time. Why not make recordings of the sermons available, too? And if they're going to be online, why not use an easy distribution method to get them "out there" in a format many people are already using?
If you don't have the tools to subscribe to my sermon podcasts, you can always view them at http://odeo.com/channel/101968/view. They'll appear as a special blog page there that has a built-in audio player for you to click on. I'll also try to post them here in the blog at the same time as they go online with the official podcast.
Why the sudden enthusiasm for podcasting? It's simply, actually - I haven't been recording my sermons previously, but now I am. I discovered that it's a lot more fun to preach "in the moment" from notes, rather than from a fully composed manuscript. I spend so much more time looking at my people, and I really enjoy not knowing precisely how things are going to "turn out." I know the general contours of my sermon well, but letting the specific words come as they may each time I deliver the sermon is exciting.
Problem has been that I'd have no written recored to post that way. (It's silly to me to write out a full manuscript and then just memorize it, except for a few very specific occasions.) Without a secretary that I'd feel right asking to transcribe my sermons for me, it just didn't work well.
I've since picked up a decent digital voice recorder, which not only allows me to easily capture my sermons, but to upload them to my computer and play them back as slow as .5 speed, making it much easier to transcribe them myself. And if I'm already going that far, it's hardly any more effort to podcast the sermons once I'm done transcribing them.
So, here's the first one. It was preached at the St. Rose Care Center in Lamoure at chapel, so it's a little different delivery than I'm used to giving (particularly in speaking rather loudly so everyone can hear). You can post comments here, or go to the podcast page and post your comments there for others to read.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
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