Live Webcast Challenge

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Do you remember December twenty twenty three? Do you remember December twenty twenty three? In some ways it seems like it was just yesterday, and other ways it feels like it was like ten years ago. But remember, in December twenty twenty three, I turned on this very microphone and I gave everyone a challenge. I told everyone to participate. I told everyone to buy a notebook to keep track of their progress. How have you been doing with that challenge? Well, we are fast approach. I mean before we know it, we're going to be saying goodbye to twenty twenty four.

0:55 But this year is going away quickly. So well, we're going to talk about that challenge that I gave you in December of twenty twenty three, and I'm going to tell you what you need to do with that challenge over the next two weeks. But before I do that, good afternoon everyone. It is Sunday, June the thirtieth, That is Crazy twenty twenty four. It is currently three twenty pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. So it was in this studio December twenty twenty three. I turned on this very microphone and I told everyone to go to the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store and download the Sermons two point oh app. Download the Sermons two point oh app. Then I told you to buy a notebook. I always tell you to get a pencil. I mean, that's just you know, I was going to tell you to buy a pencil. So you needed the sermons two point oh app. You needed a notebook, and you needed a pencil.

2:02 And then all you were supposed to do is each day, grab the Sermon's two point oh app and choose a random sermon. You're not looking for a specific speaker, a specific denomination, a specific kind of church. You're just choosing randomly. You would listen to the sermon on the Sermon's two point oh app. You would write down the name of the sermon the church, and then write a one sentence summary of the sermon that you listen to. And then you could also take notes and then write down the page number for your notes so that people that later on you could, you know, reference those notes looking at the list of all the sermons, then you could see the page number then go to that page number for your notes. I give you all kinds of ideas, all kinds of things to do, but it was a very simple challenge. Sermon's two point oh app provides you so much spiritual food. Let's not waste it. So download the app and then each day choose and listen to a random sermon. Right, and then all you had to do was listen and write it down. So let's be honest.

3:00 It's the end of June, so let's be honest. What does your notebook look like? Come on, how many sermons are in your notebook? Did you write them down? Did you write down that one sentence summary? Do you have a sermon for each day of twenty twenty four? Are you three four months behind? Well, wherever you are, that's okay, just start today and move forward and let's get the most out of the app. Now. One of the things I decided to do during this year for the challenge for the Sermons two point zero app Sermon Challenge as we called it, was at times that would give you specific themes or topics or passages of scripture to look up sermons about, right, randomly, like you're looking up the passage, you're looking up the topic, but you're just choosing the sermons the sermons randomly, as far as you're not looking for a specific church or a specific denomination or anything along those lines. So I've you know, we've been working on Joshua one to eight. We looked at some eighty three, all the different things that we have done, and I think that that's added hopefully made it a little you know, added variety, made it interesting, made it more fun, and hopefully it's all been beneficial. I hope that it has.

4:14 I hope it really has. But here's what I want you to do starting today, starting today, June the thirtieth, twenty twenty four, all right, June the thirtieth, twenty twenty four, for the next two weeks for the Sermons two point oh app Sermon Challenge, you will be looking to the live webcast section of the Sermons two point oh app. You are to listen to whatever is live. Now. If you're listening to something live and you know you're not gonna be able to finish it, or you started listening to it but you missed the beginning, just click follow to that broadcaster.

4:55 When it shows up in your feed later, then you can go back and finish it. But the goal is is trying to watch and listen. If you can't watch, you can just hit the audio, you know, or you can watch the video if you want to watch the video, but it's random sermons in the webcast section of the sermons two point oh app. That's what we're going to do for the next two weeks. Now. I did not think about this until I just went live, and then I'm like, wait a minute, Oh, it's we're fast approaching kind of a holiday week slash holiday weekend. It's gonna be July the fourth. Okay. On one hand, that means a lot of people are gonna be busy, so I don't know how much they're gonna participate. But maybe if you're traveling, you can just have someone you know take their phone and go Okay, the only thing we can listen to on this trip is live webcast from the sermon's two point oh app. I know in the car people are going to be like boo boom down with whoever came up with this decision. They're trash. Okay, I understand, I understand, but that's that's all you can do.

5:57 It's okay, all right, maybe just at least one for you know, all you gotta do is one per day, okay. So hopefully maybe maybe the time off will give people a greater chance to participate. I don't know. Typically it doesn't work that way. I'm also very concerned that I'm you know, I'm setting myself up because we're fast approaching fourth of July. If you ever want to see how much patriotism and politics has infiltrated the American church, just focus on what churches are doing for fourth and July. Oh my goodness, it's going to be a very long week. I'm in fact, as soon as I'm done here, I'm just gonna hop in the car, drive to the liquor store, and I'm just going to I'm just gonna I'm gonna fill my trunk with alcohol because I'm gonna Okay, I'm joking, ladies in gentlemen, but it is going to be difficult, especially considering my perspective is so anti patriotism and politics. Entering the church. I'm gonna be turning on webcast and if I look at the video, I'm gonna probably see American flags and listening Lee Greenwood, horrible Songs and all the other other stuff that will probably happen. Okay, so, but so it's gonna be a long week. But that's why we're doing it for two weeks because hopefully by the second week we've moved past the patriotism and the politics and we'll get back to church. But I'm hoping it'll be interesting to see. So that's for the next two weeks. Sermons two point oh app. In fact, I'm gonna open the Sermon's two point oh app right now. I'm gonna open it up,

7:28 Sermon's two point oh app. Oh, I just opened it, and I'm gonna go right here, right now to live webcasts. There are thirty four live webcast right now. Thirty four Now if you look at Beta dot sermon audio dot com, which I mean you can use that as well. I don't think on the app when they look at the app, I don't think the app does this. No, the app doesn't tell you how long they've been broadcasting. I don't like that. You see, if you go to filter, no, that filters it. But by denomination, you don't want that. If you soar name distance, yeah, that doesn't help you. So that doesn't really help you. But if you look at beta dot sermon audio dot com, it will tell you how long the webcast has been going on. That's very helpful for this because you don't I mean, if one's been going on for forty five minutes, you probably don't want to tune into that one. You can tune into the newest one. But however, you listen, whether a beta dot sermonadio dot com or the sermon's two point oh app for the next two weeks. The challenge is very simple. Your job is to listen to live webcast right, just one per day, because that's the goal. You know, you can go above and beyond that, but one per day. Again in your notebook, write down the name of them. Well, again, many of the broadcasters still don't use metadata.

8:43 I don't know why. If they use metadata, you would have the name of the sermon right there. But all right, write down the name of the sermon if you can, h just the broadcaster, and then a one sentence summary. You know, maybe if you need an extra sentence, that's okay. Just write out a summary of what the message was about. What was this primary thesis? What was it about? And and of course if you can take notes, great, We're going to be doing this for two weeks now. Typically I do sermon reviews for whatever our focus is. For the Sermon's two point oh app challenge this one, I don't know if I will. I may. What I may do is watch some take notes and then maybe just do a broadcast about what I heard, not necessarily do a review, as far as you know, playing the audio some of them, maybe I just wait until they're available, then download it. We will see and it'll just be interesting to see what your take is from all the webcasts.

9:37 Do you discover new favorite broadcasters? Did you hear something interesting? Did you notice how churches do things? What did you think how they are utilizing the technology? Do you prefer the video or the audio? You know, it'll just be, it'll be you know, who knows what you're going to determine from all of it. It doesn't bother you that they don't that the metadata doesn't show up on the Sermon's two point oh app. Does it bother you that many of the broadcasters for the beta dot Sermonadia dot com don't Does they do not use the metadata? I mean, you're gonna have lots of thoughts and opinions. Hopefully you'll share them with me. News if at Yahoo dot com, that's newsif at yahoo dot com. So just so that you know, for anyone tuning in late, well, first of all, you're tuning in waylate because this all started in December of twenty twenty three. But the goal this year has been download the sermon's two point oh app and every single day choose a random sermon other than on those weeks where I'm giving you specific you know, topics or versus to look up sermons on, but even then you're choosing them to be random. You're not looking for a specific church or speaker. You listen to the sermon one a day, you write it down in the notebook, and you write down a summary. Right. This gives you the opportunity to hear many different broadcasters, many different theological perspectives, many different hermeneutical approaches. Hopefully that's been beneficial and what the goal was at the end of the year, your notebook would be filled with one sermon per day for all of twenty twenty four. If you're behind, that's okay, start today. Just get a notebook, download the Sermon's two point oh app

11:11 for the next two weeks. What you're supposed to do is open up the Sermon's two point oh app or go to the beta dot sermonaudio dot com website, go to the web webcast section and choose a random webcast that's currently broadcasting. All right now, you obviously, maybe you'll get the ones right at the beginning. Maybe you will not. I don't know. Just just start doing it. You can let me know how the logistics are playing out, how it's working for you. Is it a good thing, negative thing? Is it difficult? And well, let's make the let's make use of it. I've talked about a long time doing this again. I don't know why I picked fourth of July week. I don't know. Oh, the broadcast are going to be interesting, okay, but let's make let's make the most out of it. All right, let's make the most of it. I think it will be beneficial. Like I said, currently, if you look at the app, there are well thirty they are a thirty broadcast right now, thirty broadcast and the first one is from Independence Independence Baptist Church and Write City, Missouri. The second one is Well Theology Central from Abilene, Texas, Dallas Presbyterian Church from Fairview, Texas. And that funny, it's the Dallas Presbyterian Church, but it's listed as Fairview, Texas. Why wouldn't it be listed as Dallas, Texas. And if the Dallas Presbyterian Church is not actually found in Dallas proper, then why wouldn't you call it Fairview Presbyterian Church.

12:35 Ooh, the questions, I can ask, Okay, Free Reformed Church of Saint Thomas, that's in Ontario, Canada. Then Grace Baptist Church from Liberty, South Carolina, Grace Covenant Church from South Carolina, Grace Family Church, Peerland, Texas, Grace Free Reform Church in Ontario, Heritage OPC, North Carolina, Heritage Reform Congregation of Jordan, Canada, Hope Protestant Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, man a lot of Canada today, Hope Reformed Church, Canada, Hope Well Associate Reformed Presbyterian in Tennessee, Houston Lake Presbyterian Church in Georgia. Well, if it's called Houston, they're only Houston, euro If you're going to use the word Houston, you can only refer to Houston, Texas. I'm sorry you can't have a Houston Lake in Georgia.

13:28 Some Texas is going to sue you for copyright. Okay. Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Ontario, Living Water Reform Church, Ontario, Well, that's interesting. A lot of Canada going on, so Ontario. I'm looking just going down the list of Missouri, Tennessee, Canada, Canada, so and again. I think when we're we're gonna notice little things, which times of the day are there more broadcasters, which time of the day, like, it'll be interesting to see. But that's your challenge, very simple, very straightforward. Wanted to get this out of the way now so that later when it's time to broadcast about whatever I need to broadcast about, we can just I didn't want to take fifteen minutes at the beginning of a broadcast to put forth this challenge. I will be repeating it in multiple broadcasts, but I wanted just to place this out there with the title. Everyone will see it.

14:22 So for the sermons two point oh app sermon Challenge, which we're doing all of twenty twenty four for the next two weeks. Your job, if you if you want to participate, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to take the sermons two point oh app and each day find a live webcast, listen to it, write down the title, the name, a summary about what it was about. And then when you can do more, and especially if you're behind this year, you don't have a sermon for every day of the week yet for twenty twenty four, then just listen to some few extra webcasts. By all means, tell me what you're listening to, tell me what you know, just anything you want to share with I like knowing people are participating, and you can email me at Newsiyahoo dot com, newsiit Yahoo dot We'll see what happens. You almost know what's going to happen. I'm gonna probably listen to one webcast, two webcasts. Next thing you know, I'm going to be starting a series. Remember I listened to one little what fifteen minute message on PSALM eighty three, and we're what twelve thirteen fourteen hours of talking about PSAWM eighty three. Now, okay, so you never know what's going to happen. But when I started listening to something, it can lead us in whatever direction. But we'll allow this to play out and hopefully it will be interesting variety, maybe you'll find your next favorite broadcaster. Maybe you'll hear some sermons that are challenging and convicting. Maybe you'll listen to some things that will provide great spiritual food. And also it may give us insight into how much politics and patriotism has infiltrated the American Church.

15:56 It may give us great insight into that. You may be like giving it a standing ovation and seeming. You know, I'm proud to be an American. Okay, you may love it. You know, I do not like patriotism or politics in the American Church. I loathe it, loathe it, loathe it, loathe it, loath it. You know, I will not even allow an American flag in our sanctuary, you know, way, no, not even on our property. We're not going to have a flag of any country where a church Christianity transcends country. Our our citizenship is in Heaven, right, that's no. We don't represent a country. We represent a kingdom, the Kingdom of God. Right. Okay. I could get in all kinds of philological reasons for that, but all right, enough of that.

16:41 You've got the challenge. Hopefully you enjoy all right, You got plenty of webcasts going on right now, go find one, listen to it, let me know how it's going. And again, if you're behind, don't worry about how many days you've missed. In the sermon's two point oh, I'm challenge just start today and let's see we can bring twenty twenty four to some kind of clothes that we're all better off spiritually. Don't know if I'm going to be better off spiritually, but I know that we've all listened to a lot of preaching in twenty twenty four. We can argue over the value or benefit, but at least we can say that. All right, thanks for listening. Everyone, have a great day. I'm missing the Indiana Fever basketball game, and so as bad as Indiana Fever has been playing, I don't know if I want to go back downstairs and see the score, but I'm gonna go back downstairs and look at the score. And if you hear screaming, it's probably coming from Texas because I'm not very happy with their current play. All right, not that you care, but I'm just being very transparent. You know that's what I'm going to do. I mean, I'm not going to go downstairs right now listen to a webcast. That's what I'm literally going to go do, so all right, but I'll be back up here after and we'll do a webcast about something today. All right, news if at yahoo dot com, that's news I f at Yahoo dot com.

17:59 May God bless you as you listen to these live webcasts and you hear the preaching and teaching of God's word