2/27/26
i would like to understand how and why churches would continue to put all of their eggs into the ephemeral basket of social media sites to warehouse their sermons when we work so hard to give faithful churches a secure and permanent home for their library of sermons for posterity, replete with all the tools you could possibly need to reach the world, including global sermons, multicasting, smart-clips, smart-edit, and of course, the vault in all 4-corners of the world. not easy.
do churches not care enough about their preaching ministry to ensure it is safeguarded on likeminded platforms? is it possible that churches would rather choose to work with, promote, and align themselves with left-leaning secular sites rather than to show up on sermonaudio alongside another brother they happen to disagree with? how does this make any sense?
2/26/26
Ask the Puritans! — A New Way to Access Puritan Resources
We’re excited to share Ask the Puritans! — a new experimental project from SermonAudio Labs designed to help pastors, students, and historians interact directly with the rich resources of Puritan and Reformed preaching.
This entirely new site allows users to ask theological questions in natural language and receive answers grounded in sermons and writings from a growing library of Puritans and Reformers on SermonAudio—20,000+ sermons including complete sermons and works from C. H. Spurgeon, John Bunyan, Thomas Boston, John Flavel, Horatius Bonar, John Knox, and others.
Check it out:
https://askpuritans.com
2/25/26
CUSTOM CLIP option is here — with an automatic centering option.
Learn all about it here:
https://sermonaudio.com/news/smartclips
2/21/26
Player Panels Makes Things Great!
We've just given our sermon player (in our opinion) a massive boost in usefulness and enjoy-ability. We now have a set of player panels that slide on and off the screen to reveal additional content if the sermon is part of a series, if there are sermon clips, or if the sermon transcript is available.
Read all about it:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/player-planels
2/16/26
24 Hour Prayer Effort Tomorrow.
Tomorrow evening we begin our 24 hour prayer meeting on the campus of Bob Jones University and with the participation of those on United Prayer. In a day when everything is valued by shorts and reels, I believe it is important to highlight the importance of a thing by giving extraordinary time to it. 24 hours may seem like an arbitrary number, but it signifies completeness, it pushes back on a convenience-driven society, and it carries with it real cost.
Is it necessary?
Was it necessary for the unnamed woman to pour the alabaster box of very precious ointment on the head of Christ in Mark 14? Indeed, the criticism raised by the disciples was that it was a "waste." What could be more precious in our day than our time? It is what the entire social media industry is clamoring after—your time. And sadly, we are thoughtlessly and willingly handing over our most precious commodity—time—to industries that care nothing for our souls. I call it the destruction of distraction, and I'm praying that God will give us enough discernment to see a new "anti-social" movement begin to rise, as impossible as it may seem.
A question was recently asked of Elon Musk, "What's one invention that's made us worse, not better?" Insightfully, he said, "Maybe short form video, it's rotting people's brains."
Do you not observe it in your own experience? Are you not plagued by the inability to concentrate or even to meditate on God's word? Could it be that we are rotting our own minds through the steady stream of mindless content that drains not only our time, but our very life energy? Social media began as something good as a way to connect with family and friends. But today, our feeds are flooded with irrelevant content, carefully engineered to be addictive and endlessly entertaining. Let us be wise to their methods.
And yet, in light of the real "waste of time" that we are witnessing today, when an idea of a 24 hour prayer meeting is proposed, is there not something that rises up even in the hearts of Christians, saying, "to what purpose is this waste?"
For the woman, it was not done out of slavish duty, nor as an attempt to earn His favor. Rather, she quietly and without prompting gave what was most precious to her, out of pure devotion and a desire to simply “do what she could” in loving service to her Lord.
Christian friend, may you not be among the number that heaps scorn and derision upon efforts of this nature, especially when they are born out of a sincere desire to recover the lost art of offering the precious ointment of time to the Lord in prayer. Indeed, "I waited patiently for the Lord."
- 2/17 7pm ET: Steven Lee
- 2/17 8pm ET: Rick Cross
- 2/17 9pm ET: Damian Gray
- 2/17 10pm ET: Mark Acevedo
- 2/17 11pm ET: Derek Keating
- 2/18 12am ET: Andrew Simpson
- 2/18 1am ET: Pooyan Mehrshahi
- 2/18 2am ET: Jon Daulton
- 2/18 3am ET: Matt Hancock
- 2/18 4am ET: Julio Alonso
- 2/18 5am ET: Arnoud Vergunst
- 2/18 6am ET: Brian Plattner
- 2/18 7am ET: Alexander Leon
- 2/18 8am ET: Gerard Hemmings
- 2/18 9am ET: Caitano V de Souza
- 2/18 10am ET: Sacha Walicord
- 2/18 11am ET: Louis DeVizia
- 2/18 12pm ET: John Wagner
- 2/18 1pm ET: Armen Thomassian
- 2/18 2pm ET: Scott Pauley
- 2/18 3pm ET: Bruce McAllister
- 2/18 4pm ET: Geoff Banister
- 2/18 5pm ET: Joel Beeke
- 2/18 6pm ET: Steven Lee
2/14/26
Foundations Tour of Scotland .. SOLD OUT
The APR 9-16, 2026 tour is completely filled and sold out. Due to continued interest expressed, we are considering offering the same tour on SEP 17–24, 2026. Before making final arrangements, we wanted to see if there is enough interest in those dates.
Learn more about this tour:
www.foundationstour.com
2/7/26
Introducing Smart Clips for Sermons
We have officially launched Smart Clips—our solution for discovering the best clips from your sermons and generating short form vertical content suitable for distribution on social platforms. This is all done using Vault AI and is available to all broadcasters. It's an incredible time-saving feature designed to increase listenership and engagement.
We live in an attention-deprived world. Shorts, reels, and bite-sized videos on YouTube and Facebook designed to be consumed on vertical phone devices have become the new normal and it simply cannot be ignored.
Learn more about Smart Clips:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/smartclips
2/5/26
SMART EDIT JUST GOT A 3000% MASSIVE SPEED BOOST -- what used to take minutes, now takes seconds!
Powered entirely by Vault AI, Smart Edit helps to remove filler words, repetitions, sentence fragments, subject-verb disagreements, and smooths out those little faux pas that are common in extemporaneous speaking. It even works to flatten idioms into their core meanings ensuring the message is clear, precise, and faithful to your original intent.
Learn more about it:
https://sermonaudio.com/news/sermon-transcripts-and-smart-edit
2/5/26
Behind this wall of glass is where The Vault UK will find its home in the soon-to-be-opened LTBS CENTRE. Our goal is to create a complete replica of The Vault HQ presently housed on the campus of BJU.
I hope to be there APR 18 for the official opening of the LTBS Centre as well as The Vault UK, God willing. An incredibly important step for us as we seek to be in the "four corners of the world" -- both figuratively and physically.
2/3/26
“My friend, I just used the free token that you gave me for translation, for the globalization of the sermon. It sounds brilliant! I mean, I've just preached a couple of days ago ... in Spanish. And I've just chose English, of course. And it sounds brilliant, really, really good! The translation, the vocalization is really brilliant. So well done, guys!”
César Augusto García Rincón
Iglesia Bautista Gracia Redentora
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This is the sermon he's referring to:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/22262242541453
Globalize your sermons today!
https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/globalsermons
2/2/26
An easy way to see all newest Global Sermons! Be sure to check it out for yourself:
https://sermonaudio.com/sermons/global
Check out what this church did — they took one of their sermons and globalized it into every language and are now reaching more people!
https://sermonaudio.com/sermons/6152531182636
