Full-transcript sermon search is here! We’re thrilled to unveil one of the most powerful features ever released on SermonAudio: every sermon fully transcribed and searchable! No one else is doing this at this scale. For some time now, we’ve been auto
Attention everyone, To date, we have almost 3 million sermons in our repository which makes us the largest library of free audio and video sermons from thousands of faithful churches worldwide. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. On the one hand,
The other day, we finally and officially removed the original SermonAudio app from the App Store. It's the end of an era. You'll need to download the NEW APP—read on! Fifteen years ago, we launched the original SermonAudio app—v1.0 hit the App Store on
5/19/25 We’re thrilled to unveil one of the most powerful features ever released on SermonAudio: every sermon fully transcribed and searchable! No one else is doing this at this scale. Just think—the entire backlog of millions of sermons on SermonAudio
We're keeping busy. There's a lot that goes on here every single day, and one of the annoying things about fast-paced development is that it can often go unappreciated. Here's a summary: Global Sermons is around the corner. Our development team presented
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
Attention broadcasters! 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
Version 3.1.4 Update 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 Version 3.1.2 Update Morning and Evening devotionals
Attention broadcasters! Our popular feature called Cross Publish just got more powerful—now enabling the optional upload of full-length sermons to Facebook and YouTube! Spread the net even wider to ensure that your sermons are seen on social media sites
Attention all users! We're happy to announce new and easy way to listen to sermons, watch videos, and tune into live webcasts on SermonAudio -- instantly! All from the convenience of your living room television. It's our completely rewritten SermonAudio
Attention all broadcasters! This was a big one. After many months of painstaking development, we have finally released our new and vastly improved Sermon Manager to manage your sermons and to accommodate new upcoming features. In a nutshell, submit,
Update on The Vault and Site development. We have more or less completed setting up SITE #2. This second site for the Vault is much smaller than our Greenville location on the campus of Bob Jones University, but it plays a vital step in our mission to
3/22/25 We’ve just rolled out a massive update, packed with a slew of slick feature upgrades and bug fixes. It’s so big, we bumped it straight to 3.1—barely a month after the landmark 3.0 release! 3/21/25 Our popular feature called Cross Publish just got
2/14/25 Breathtaking amount of work accomplished this past week: New sermon manager launched. Sermons 3.0 app nearing release candidate. The Vault is taking on webcasting load. More "tutor learn" videos released. The new sermon manager is an important
Attention everyone! We’re thrilled to announce our Auto-Play feature which will automatically proceed to the next sermon in a series so you can enjoy seamless, uninterrupted sermon playback for both audio and video formats. No more manually selecting the
Gospel of John Re-launch! We're living in a world that is sinking in disinformation, deepfakes, and outright deception. We cannot tell what is true and what is artificial anymore. In the midst of this sea of lies, it seems that more than ever there is a
Attention everyone! Video playback on SermonAudio just got a very nice upgrade! You can now enjoy a tiny video preview thumbnail as you scrub through the timeline. It's 100% automatic, it works on all 600,000+ existing videos in our library, and it works
1/4/25 Add album art toggle on the series listing pages. All search tabs now have a count and header and utilize the standard listings we have across the site. On series, you can now change the listing type and sort. Cleaned up how tabs load so that
Greetings, As we close out 2024, we reflect on a big year of advances and changes. In many ways, it feels as though we've been walking on water for the past 24 years, endeavoring to keep our eyes on the Lord. What we are doing, humanly speaking, is
Statistics is hard. Throughout the years, we've done a lot of work on sermon play statistics so that our broadcasters can be presented with the best possible reports on how sermons are being heard all around the world. We've often had to resort to
Attention everyone! SermonAudio is excited to announce our newest Bible software integration with Biblearc -- an online tool designed to help users study the Bible deeply and systematically. "Arcing" is an interesting new and creative method of analyzing
ANOTHER AUDIOBOOK INITIATIVE GEM. What you are about to listen to is historic. It’s the first ever audiobook from the works of John Knox. Our team is aggressively working through his entire works, and it’s an extraordinarily difficult process of scanning
12/23/24 I am happy to announce that as of this past Sunday, we have completed all tests and are officially no longer relying on third-party logging systems! The performance is vastly improved, and we have much better control over how stats are gathered.
Attention everyone, As we bring our beloved coffee project to a close, we reflect with gratitude on the incredible journey that began in 2018 when I had the privilege of visiting Tony Jones in Haiti. Over the past six years, through eight shipments of
Attention all users! We're happy to announce that SermonAudio officially has support for the Amazon Echo family of devices, including, the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, Echo Spot, Echo Plus, and more. It is available immediately. The Echo is an
Build-A-Vault is a fun little side project that we've been working on that allows you to purchase and build a miniature replica of The Vault using real LEGO pieces. All proceeds support the Durand missionary family in Chile. The set was designed by their
11/28/24 When the pilgrims first settled in NOV 1620, half of those that traveled died during that first winter. One year later, in NOV 1621, they celebrated their first Thanksgiving out of gratitude for God’s protection and provision. Today, we continue
Broadcaster Homepage Every broadcaster on SermonAudio now sports a gorgeous homepage experience where visitors will learn all about the broadcaster at a glance, including a welcome video, contact information, location, # of sermons, group affiliation,
THE VAULT There is a long-term, secure storage facility tucked away in the side of an icy mountain above the Arctic Circle between Norway and the North Pole, called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or more commonly referred to as the Doomsday Vault. Its
Attention everyone, We'd like to introduce a new way we're beginning to organize some of the sermon content on SermonAudio with what we are calling Collections. You can think of it as carefully curated content—consisting of sermons, videos, series,
10/28/24 This evening, we enjoyed a very special technical lecture from Dr. Kevin Kindall on the topic of Computational Finance, highlighting the importance of computer science in valuation, hedging, and risk management. Dr. Kindall is a quantitative
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. We are located in Greenville, SC and over 90% of this area is still without power and very limited cell/data service. It's a mess out there with downed trees, long gas lines, and long grocery lines. When literal
We regret to inform you that our site may have occasional technical difficulties due to the hurricane affecting the southeast. Our team is actively working hard to resolve these issues and restore full service as quickly as possible. Please rest assured
9/25/24 Last Played indicator when sorting sermons by "Recently Played" Fixed referral code URLs in the Coins & Referral section of the dashboard Remove email warning message from contact form when the user isn't logged in Hide broadcaster home page
Attention Android Users: We want to extend our sincerest apologies for the recent issues many of you with Android 14 have encountered with our latest Sermons 2.0 app release. We understand how frustrating this experience has been, and we deeply regret the
We've launched our new website! After years of putting together mockups and designs, and after years of going from concept to code, we have finally removed the Beta label off our site and have launched this massive rewrite as our primary website for
Introduction SermonAudio and Bob Jones University are cooperating in a mutually beneficial relationship to advance God's kingdom and to inspire the next generation. The Computer Science Department at Bob Jones University will be periodically hosting
8/30/24 Updated many more languages in preparation for the site launch. Added a quality-of-life convenience button to jump directly to the corresponding EDIT page on the Broadcaster Dashboard for all sermon pages, broadcaster homepages, series, speakers,
Attention all broadcasters!
New! Version 4.0 Major Update!
Complete app rewrite from the ground up.
Improved search functionality + search history.
Enhanced performance and stability.
Entirely new "floating" player experience.
More precise percentage pla
Attention all broadcasters! We've now dramatically simplified our support for Online Donations for all broadcasters! It's now easier than ever to accept one-time or recurring donations via credit card or bank transfers with the best possible rates. A
Accurate sermon analytics for Broadcasters. The digital landscape has seen a significant increase in automated traffic — including a rise in what are called bots (or "robots") and spiders both of which "crawl" the web visiting all web pages looking for
Attention everyone, The Audiobook Initiative by SermonAudio utilizes voice-cloning technology to make available an extensive collection of historic sermons, books, and written works from renowned preachers of the past into easily accessible audiobook
Greetings everyone, The ability to easily and beautifully promote sermons, videos, websites, events, books, services, and anything else to our almost 3M monthly unique visitors on both web and mobile is finally available in our new Promotional Tools
Attention all, Everything that you see on beta.sermonaudio.com is written using our own set of v2 APIs that we are now making available to the entire world. It's the most powerful programming framework that every developer now has access to! Better
Broadcaster accounts are now linked to SermonAudio User accounts. Instead of having separate login credentials for Broadcaster accounts, you will now login to the Dashboard via linked User accounts. What are User Accounts? Starting in 2024, SermonAudio
"I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." Psalm 40:1 We take a moment to praise God for bringing us through the 24-hour prayer meeting which was a cooperative effort between the students of Bob Jones University and
"I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." Psalm 40:1 We received the GREEN LIGHT today for a 24-HOUR global prayer meeting with the students at Bob Jones University in cooperation with SermonAudio. This prayer effort
Greetings, We ended the OLD YEAR of 2023 with our annual Christmas staff dinner. We took some time to reflect on the goodness of God upon our development efforts throughout the year as well as with many other blessings. We began the NEW YEAR of 2024 with
Greetings, The Foundations Conference 2023 in New York City has finished. It was an honor to host our sixth conference assembling a unique blend of some of our generation's finest speakers in New York City. Our focus was on prayer and preaching—what we
My hero in the faith, Clarence Sexton, passed away last week on Dec 12, 2023. People like Dr. Sexton are rare. I didn't "belong" in his circles, but he always made the effort to extend his hand of friendship to me. I enjoyed attending his Baptist Friends
