It is our goal to use our church website as a place to provide helpful content. We want this to be a solid resource for information pertaining to the Reformed faith. With that in mind, Dan and I are continually seeking to add content that will not only be helpful to you, but also to others who may be interested in learning more about our church and the Reformed faith in general. Here’s what you can do to help.
Take advantage of the resources yourself.
Missed a Sunday? Missed a service? Go to the sermons page and look for the audio recording. I usually have these uploaded by the Monday after they are preached. Here’s how to find them: (1) Go to the Home page on the website and look for the three bars in the upper right hand corner. Click on those bars. (2) Clicking on those bars will provide a drop down menu on the right. It will have five links underneath in this order—HOME, +ABOUT, HAPPENINGS, HISTORY, THE GOSPEL. HAPPENINGS is where you are right now. THE GOSPEL is circled and takes you to a page which presents the gospel. +ABOUT has a + in front of it. This is to let you know that when you click it, more menu options will drop down. (3) Click on +ABOUT. Beneath will drop down more menu items, including: WHAT WE BELIEVE, SERVICES, SERMONS, PODCAST EPISODES, CONTACT US, MEMBERSHIP, LINKS. Clicking on any of them will take you to a new page. (4) Click on SERMONS. Now start scrolling downward. You will find there a link to every sermon series we have preached since I have been pastor. There are SERMONS FROM PSALMS, SERMONS FROM MARK, SERMONS FROM HOSEA, etc. Clicking on any one of those photos will take you off the church website and onto a site called SoundCloud where the sermons are stored. So try clicking the photo just above SERMONS FROM GENESIS. When you do so you should immediately see a page with every sermon preached from Genesis so far. There are eight of them, including the one I preached last night. The same can be done for the Galatians series or any other series that we have done.
The same can be done for PODCAST EPISODES. Just click the link and it will take you to a page that contains a link to every episode. There are ten of them so far. The last one we posted was called EPISODE 10 - A PAPIST AND A DONKEY WALK INTO A BAR. The podcasts are informal conversations between Dan and me where he pokes and prods me into answering questions. These are intended to be informative and you can help with these by asking questions for us to address in future episodes. Have a question about something we do or don’t do at church? Something we believe or don’t believe and want to know why? Just ask. There are no dumb questions and you will never be embarrassed. The purpose of the podcast is to inform.
We have designed these to be a resource you can take advantage of while you’re doing your ordinary things that you do during the week. For example, I often listen to sermons or podcasts while I’m driving down the road. This is not hard to do if you have a smart phone. I do the same thing if I’m working around the house or in the yard. I plug in some earbuds or pull out my old school boombox and connect to my phone and listen while I work. But you don’t need a smartphone to listen to the sermons or podcasts. You can stream them right from your computer and listen through your computer’s speakers.
Have you missed some of the sermons from Galatians or Genesis? Here’s a way for you to catch up. Interested in a previous sermon or series of sermons from Mark or Psalms or Hosea? Just click and listen. Want to know more about our church or the Reformed faith? Find the podcasts. Every sermon I’ve preached at our church is at your fingertips. I hope you will take advantage. Have a question about something you heard in one of those old sermons? Ask it and I will answer in a podcast. We want you to participate.
Share the resources
The content on the website is not just for our members and visitors. It’s for everyone. Blessed by a particular sermon or podcast? Feel like it would be helpful to others? Share the link on social media. Know someone who may be interested in our church? Help them to find the website. This is a way for you to be active in the outreach of our church. Have an idea for more content for the website? Share that with us as well. We are working hard to make solid, God-glorifying content available as a ministry tool for our members and visitors as well as for anyone else in our vicinity that we can reach. Help us out!
God bless you and I’m praying for you. I trust you are praying for me.