Digital sermons
Our church is officially cutting-edge: we are podcasting. If that buzzword leaves you nonplussed—or even if it doesn’t—download Apple’s free iTunes software and fire it up. Then click on 
and search for “Christ the King.” A new sermon is posted every week, and it will be automatically downloaded for you to listen to at leisure.
All you need are the ubiquitous white earbuds and your name is Joseph Kewl—or Josephine, if you prefer.
On the subject of good sermons from past and present CTKPC ministers, Westminster Theological Seminary has posted a recording of a particularly fine Ed Clowney sermon dating from I don’t know when. Preaching seldom gets as good as this sermon, and I doubt I will hear a more excellent one in my lifetime. Listening to it left me breathless at the wonder of the Christian gospel. It helps that the text is possibly my favorite passage in the Bible, but the staggering vistas that Dr Clowney opens up through his preaching made me feel as though I were encountering the parable of the prodigal son for the first time. Really, you must find 45 minutes to 
listen to this jewel of a sermon.
If you like it, there’s more where that came from, but not in audio form.
Update: Trinity Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville, Virginia, has an audio archive that includes 23 more Ed Clowney sermons. 
I’ve always thought that churches were tragically behind the curve in adapting new technologies such as podcasting, blogs, RSS feeds…
Good to see your church is putting it to good use. Here’s hoping that’ll start a trend with some of the other churches in Houston.
Nils,
You can also subscribe to the feed using iPodder or iPodder X (for mac) using the following link:
http://www.christtheking.com/podCast.cfm
Of course, now that iTunes has added the podcasting, these other programs are likely to just quietly go away.
Good work, and let me say right off the top that y’all are ahead of us at the Vineyard.
Couple of comments:
Perusing the link pointed to above, it appears that the feed’s missing the custom namespace that Apple specifies here.
And there should probably be a link to the podcast feed here.
And, I doubt that iPoddr or other RSS audio feeds (to use a product-neutral term) will go away; iTunes won’t replace all other apps in this space any time soon….but then, that’s a different kind of religious discussion.
Yeah, we’re definitely still tweaking the xml to get it just right. There are some things that I haven’t been able to figure out yet on iTunes (how to get the church logo to show up instead of the default podCast logo, etc.) And there are a couple of fields that we’ve left blank because that info isn’t in the database yet.
We really didn’t have to add anything new to the database to make it work.
One thing I was playing around with today was adding the order of worship to the “RSS audio and pdf feed” ;). Was able to make iTunes automatically pull in the pdf file each week. So we got that going for us.
All technical stuff aside, I really enjoyed that Ed Clowney sermon on the prodigal son. Comparing the Buddist version to the grace of the gospel reminded me of the interview with Bono that is linked on Mark Bertrand’s blog. Bono did a great job of describing the difference between karma and grace.
Ed Clowney sermon archive
You may have noticed how much I admire Ed Clowney and his preaching. I just ran across an audio archive of sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville, Virginia where he served as theologian-in-residence 1984–1990 and again from 200…