This post was updated on August 30, 2006.
Below I have placed links to lots of free audio of good teachers and speakers on the internet.
See also my list of favorite podcasts for church leaders here.
Allelon – NT Wright, Brian McLaren, Eugene Peterson, Dallas Willard
American Rhetoric including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Bono
Andy Stanley – North Point Community Church
Andy Stanley – Practically Speaking – Seven Practices of Effective Ministry Series
Billy Graham and Franklin Graham – The Hour of Decision Past Broadcasts
Bob Russell – OnePlace.com – Broadcast Archives
Brenda Salter McNeil – Urban Youth Workers Institute – "Elevate" – 2004
Brenda Salter McNeil – New Community (Chicago) – "Racial Reconciliation" – 11/20/2005
Brian McLaren – Cedar Ridge Community Church including series on Emerging Church in Sept-Oct 2005.
Brian McLaren Q&A with Canadian Church Leaders "Resonate" in April 2006.
Brian McLaren – Grand Rapids Theological Seminary – What is Emerging?
Catalyst Conference Podcast Interviews with Andy Stanley, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Tim Sanders, Eugene Peterson. Rob Bell, Mike Foster and Louie Giglio.
Cornel West at Whitman College
Covenant Theological Seminary’s "Covenant Worldwide" – free seminary courses.
Craig Barnes and John Perkins – Shadyside Presbyterian Church Recent Sermons
Da Vinci Code – New Testament scholars Richard Hays and Bart Ehrman Debate – April 2006
Darrell Johnson, Ken Shigematsu, Larry Crabb, John Stackhouse – Tenth Avenue Church
David Dark – The Message in the Matrix – 25 minute interview
Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger Lecture on Emerging Churches at Fuller Seminary
Erwin McManus – Mosaic Podcast
For Sale – Regent Bookstore Online MP3 CDs
For Sale – Willow Creek Conference Resources
For Sale – Youth Specialties 2005 National Youth Workers Convention – San Diego, California
For Sale Youth Specialties 2004 National Youth Workers Convention – San Diego, California
For Sale Youth Specialties Pastor’s Conference 2003
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Audio
J.I. Packer – St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church
John Ortberg – Menlo Park Presbyterian Church – Menlo Park, CA – Sermons Online
John Stott, Alister McGrath, Philip Yancey – All Souls Church, Langham Place
John Stott "A Call to Christian Maturity" Mariner’s Church, Calif. Nov 2005
Larry Crabb – New Way Ministries
Leadership Network resources – mission statement: to identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.
Leith Anderson – Weekly Sermons
Marva Dawn interview. It is excellent. From WBCL – a Christian radio station in Fort Wayne, IN. March 24, 2006. You can only listen to it online.
New Perspective on Paul Opponents- Theopedia – DA Carson
Off-The-Map – Brian McLaren on Evangelism
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Audio including Ken Bailey
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Audio including Emerging Church Discussions with John Franke
Preaching Today Audio – They ususally have one free under "Media"
Resurgence Podcasts including Mark Driscoll, Tim Keller, John Piper, Chris Seay
Stuart and Jill Briscoe – Elmbrook Church, Brookfield, Wisconsin
Taylor University Chapel Archives 2005-2006 – Jay Kesler, Dan Allender
Tony Jones talks with Alan Hartung – March 2006
The Veritas Forum – Donald Miller, Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig
Tim Keller – Redeemer Presbyterian Church
Wheaton College Chapel – now free!
Willow Creek’s most recent mid-week "New Community" sermons
Basics of listening to MP3’s:
In the olden days, I would listen to tapes. Now I usually listen to MP3’s. If you are technologically fearful and don’t want to deal with the hassle of MP3’s, you can always pay for CD’s and tapes. Almost all the sites above have places where you can order CD’s or tapes. But if you want to listen to free stuff, this is the ticket!
MP3’s are computer files. So you can listen to them on any computer and on most new CD players and DVD players and of course portable MP3 players. Your computer will likely play them in Windows Media Player, or on the basic Real Player (which is free to download here) or in ITunes (which you can download for free here). Basically, you just click on the sites above and you click on the sermon you want to listen to and it will pop up and begin playing. Make sure you have your volume up on your computer (Control Panel . . . Sounds and Audio Devices . . . )
Some of the audio are only available when you are connected to the internet. Usually they play in Real Player only or some other player. But most are MP3’s that you can download and listen to later. If you want to save a copy to your computer to listen to later, you can often right click the link and click "Save Target as . . ." and save the MP3 to a folder of your choice on your computer. For example, you can do this with the Veritas files. (These are big files (20-50 MB) so you don’t want to do this with Dial Up.)
Once you have it on your computer, you can burn it to a CD and play it in your CD player or DVD player or MP3 player. Or just listen to it from your computer like I do. I hook my laptop up to my stereo by having a cord that goes from my laptop headphone jack into my stereo.
See my description here of my listening habits.