Just a friendly reminder: We mentioned a few weeks ago that some older sermons would be deleted to make room for new stuff. In the very early days of the website the “sermon” was posted as text. Here is an example titled The Gospel Is Our Privileged and Responsibility. Those take up very little space as far as memory on the server is concerned. About a year later we experimented with adding images and scripture slides to an audio recording. Here is a link to Getting the Gospel Right. This experiment lasted a few weeks and produced less than a dozen videos. Those are hosted on YouTube and linked from the church website, so those are not taking up any of our space here.

The videos were labor intensive and extremely time consuming to create and render in a final format that YouTube would accept. In September of 2016 we started posting the sermon audio to our church website which is hosted by WordPress. Here is a series on the first 12 chapters of Genesis. The audio player looks weird and I don’t think you can download the m4a files. These are from eight years ago, long before churches started scrambling around trying to figure out what to do during the Covid pandemic. We were somewhat ahead of the curve for a small country church back then but looking at this post today the design and the technology is outdated. This is the kind of thing we will be clearing. If you want to hear these recordings again you have a week or two then the oldest audio posts will be deleted. In 2024 we will delete sermon posts from 2016. Next year we will delete 2017 posts to make way for 2025 sermons to be uploaded. That is the plan at this time, we’ll see how it goes. I can’t imagine anyone is going back that far and listening to sermons that I preached when Obama was still in office. If you are this is last call.