Release Notes // April 2025 | SermonAudio Classics

4/28/25

At today’s general staff meeting, we enjoyed hearing about the great work of our two BJU interns—Joshua and Caleb. Like their namesakes, the two faithful spies in the book of Numbers, may they likewise excel in faith and accomplish great works for the Lord.

It seems that almost daily we are bombarded with tech issues. Can God help us through coding conundrums? Yes. He created it all. As a technology company, we are unashamedly dependent on the Lord’s help even with technical challenges.

Please pray for us.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

— Psalm 90:17

4/25/25

Sermons v3.1.4 - (iOS, Android, and Amazon)

New scroll to top featured when tapping the tab you are already on
Polish language support
Sermon PDF support
Webcast list naming improvements
Various bug fixes and improvements

4/23/25

Another day of significant development effort and victory.

Continued progress on the revamped webcast architecture. Webcasts that land in The Vault, now write to upgraded high-speed local storage in The Vault dedicated to webcast activities.
We've upgraded our primary storage server array in The Vault and it is fully operational with all new sermons flowing into it. Storage is hard because it's big and so it's a multi-step process, but we've tackled the big first step.
Video-on-demand is a staple to SermonAudio along with audio and it has seen a key code change that will allow it to be more resilient.
We've introduced a "Global IP" load-balancing layer for our new webcast architecture overhaul allowing churches to push more reliably to our SA servers in tandem with full integration with YouTube and Facebook.
We are now processing year 2013 in our full-sermon transcription process as we retroactively plow through the entire library of 2M+ sermons.

4/22/25

Added POLISH language + translation to the Sermons app! Coming soon to the App Store with the next release of the Sermons 3.1 app.

NOTE: We add new languages to both our app and website when a volunteer translator comes forward to help us. It is not a completely automated effort. So, we're thankful for our new Polish translator volunteer!

Read more about it:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/international

4/21/25

Greenville is next! We are targeting 10,000 homes in Greenville SC to which to send the Gospel of John. We've been marching along in 2025 to reach 12 cities in 12 months with 120,000 copies of the Gospel of John total. Will you consider helping us?

10,000 homes in NYC // DONE
10,000 homes in Phoenix // DONE
10,000 homes in Kingsport // DONE
10,000 homes in DC // PRINTING
10,000 homes in Harrisburg // PRINTING
10,000 homes in Greenville

https://sermonaudio.com/news/goj

4/20/25

Everything held up this Easter Sunday at The Vault—one of our busiest Sundays. Although the primary cooling failed, the backup cooling kicked in. Power remained stable. Webcasting and the sermon pipeline were running at full capacity. So very thankful.

4/20/25 - EASTER

HE IS RISEN!!

Mary Magdalene, once tormented by seven devils before being delivered by Christ, became one of His most faithful followers. On that first resurrection morning, she was among the first to arrive at the tomb at the break of day. While Peter and John came and then returned to the others, Mary lingered alone near the empty tomb, her heart heavy with sorrow and love.

Yet never was such devoted waiting on the Lord met with a greater reward. To her was granted the singular honor of being the very first to encounter the risen Christ. In her patient devotion, she enjoyed more than she could have possibly imagined.

Christian friend, don’t rush. Wait patiently for the Lord. You will meet the risen Savior just the same.

4/18/25

SA TV CHANNEL 4/18/25 UPDATE
https://sermonaudio.com/news/tv

Added support for password protected webcasts
Added more colorful series icons
Added friendly error messages
Bugfixes and UI enhancements

4/16/25

Enjoyed meeting Gary Kim today, President of the publishing and printing arm of the Legacy Standard Bible. We have many shared experiences as second generation Koreans doing work in the kingdom.

4/15/25

Bill Welzien getting setup for his open air outreach going on for almost 40 years on the pier of Mallory Square in Key West, Florida. It’s a real pleasure to renew fellowship with this faithful servant of the Lord.

4/11/25

Just had an encouraging call this afternoon with astronaut Barry Wilmore (just back after 9 months in space!). He’s an elder at Providence Baptist in Texas, which broadcasts on SA. He watched their live webcasts every week from the space station—and that makes us happy!

4/10/25

Starting to take shape! Global Sermons will take any sermon preached in English and “re-preach” it with accuracy and natural voice to any other major language inexpensively and easily with full web, app, television support!

Massive effort this week to reorganize and rebalance the power infrastructure in The Vault following recent outages caused by excessive power consumption. $10k worth of UPS’s in all racks being replaced along with better monitoring tools.

4/9/25

Enjoyed having a very special friend from VCYAmerica visit with us at The Vault on the campus of BJU. We’ve enjoyed a partnership with VCY for many years and would encourage you to support this worthy ministry in any way you can.

4/8/25

Another busy day update:

Worked with BJU to resolve increasing power needs at The Vault.
In the process of upgrading the UPS’s in all racks.
Rolled out a big chunk of the new webcasting system, will bring increased quality and stability.
More Knox audiobooks!

4/7/25

Does your video have a custom thumbnail uploaded? Cross Publish will now ensure that any custom thumbnail associated with your sermon is also uploaded to the destination platform. Major convenience win!

Version 3.1.2 Update

Morning and Evening devotionals in Daily Devotional screen
Support for password-protected webcasts (feature coming soon)
Better language filtering
Search all speakers and broadcasters under their respective Discover screens
View in Browser option for Sermons, Broadcasters, and Series
Speed improvement during app load
Selectable text in Sermon and Broadcaster descriptions
Prevent blank searches from being saved to history
Various UI improvements

We'll be decommissioning our old "legacy" SA v1 app from the App Stores very soon. We've worked hard to bring our current SERMONS 3.1 app up to feature-parity with the old app. But let us know what you will miss in the old app and we'll do our best to get it implemented!

4/4/25

Next city for 10,000 booklets of the Gospel of John: HARRISBURG, PA!

https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/goj

4/3/25

You're gonna love what we're working on with the webcasting refresh!

Multiview!
New Webcast Manager!
More robust Multicast to FB/YT!
Replay prior webcasts!
Password-protected webcasts!
Vault Integration!

4/2/25

At SermonAudio, we're not just about audio & video. We’re continually striving to provide our broadcasters with powerful tools that help communicate the gospel in every format. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a brand-new feature: Articles — a simple and effective way for broadcasters to write, publish, and share written content such as devotionals, blogs, announcements, and more — directly on SermonAudio.

Read all about it here:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/articles

4/2/25

It was a real pleasure to welcome Martyn Iles to The Vault on the campus of Bob Jones University as we shared with him our mission to preserve and propagate sound preaching for posterity. He told us how he would spend hours listening to preaching on the bus in his earlier years.

4/1/25

We’ve got a fun new way of announcing new features on SermonAudio. Tune in for an upbeat, AI-generated podcast where digital hosts dive into the latest news and updates from SermonAudio with energy, insight, and a touch of wit! Enjoy the conversation!