Audio Sermons from Our Pastors
Sermons are available for download as MP3 files which may be played through iTunes, Windows Media Player or downloaded to portable music players.
"Choices in the Wilderness" by the Rev. Richard W. Neal, 21 February 2010
"The Transforming Choice" by The Rev. Richard W. Neal, 14 February 2010
"Holy" by Pastor Nick Perry, 7 February 2010
"Extreme Makeover: Church Edition" by The Rev. Richard W. Neal, 31 January 2010
"Today" by Pastor Nick Perry, 24 January 2010
"Stone Jars" by The Rev. Richard W. Neal, 17 January 2010
"What Baptism?" by The Rev. Richard W. Neal, 10 January 2010
"Remember Where You Come From" by Pastor Nick Perry, 27 December 2009
"The Imagination of Peace" by The Rev. Richard W. Neal, 20 December 2009
"The Imagination of Joy" by Pastor Nick Perry, 13 December 2009 (partial recording only)
"The Imagination of The Way" by The Rev. Richard W. Neal, 06 December 2009
Archived Sermons Page
Take the Sermons With You
Mina Rohde
This fall, the Communications and Web Site Teams began podcasting the weekly sermons from the 11:00 a.m. worship service. The word podcast is the combination of "iPod" and "broadcast." A podcast is actually an audio file that can be downloaded over the Web and then listened to through your computer’s speakers. The type of audio file being used to record the sermons is called an MP3 file.
Despite the name podcast, you do not need an iPod to listen to MP3 files. In fact, the MP3 files you download can be played through PC or Mac computers using Windows Media Player or iTunes. These files can also be loaded onto any brand of portable music player.
Now if someone misses the Gospel reading and sermon on Sunday, he/she can download the sermon the next week and listen to it at home. Newcomers or friends of the church who live out of town can also listen to the weekly sermons. You can save favorite sermons to replay whenever you like - while taking a car trip, working in the garden, or running errands.
To make a podcast each week, we plug a special recorder directly into the church’s sound system. This allows us to capture all the audio in the service without disturbing the pastors or worshipers and it eliminates stray noises in the recording. When the service is over, the recorder is plugged into the computer where the audio file is converted to MP3 format. Then the Gospel reading and sermon are clipped out of the service and uploaded to WUMC’s Web site. Each finished recording is about 4 MB and only takes a few minutes to download, even on a dial-up connection.
Audio sermons and text sermons are available on the church's Web page. Here’s how you locate this page: from the Home page, click Worship and then select Sermons from Our Pastors (http://www.williamsvilleumc.org/WorshipandMusic/SermonsfromOurPastors.aspx). Click on a title of the sermon you want to download and the file will open automatically in the appropriate player program. Sermons from the past few weeks will be on the main page, while older sermons will be moved to a secondary page for archiving.
Please let us know if you have any questions or run into a problem when downloading either the audio file or the printed PDF file of the sermon.