Took longer than I'd hoped to get Tony Lewis' sermon, Every Blessing in Abundance, online because I missed church last Sunday.

Here it is!

And I see the feed is up and ready

I haven't been updating as much in What's New largely because the updates were mostly announcements that the sermon is online. I've created the blog Sermons at First Congo to keep track of those changes and to provide a vehicle for the podcast feed

I did recently add the general church email address info@firstoakland.org to the front page after someone emailed me to let me know they search all over the website and couldn't find a general email. Which was true. Thank God for feedback!

Later today I will edit the audio file tags (The ID3 tag) of yesterday's sermon from Pastor Lynice so it will display better on your mp3 player. I'm assuming that Feedburner will grab the revised file later.

Our resident theologian and newly published author Dr. J. Webb Mealy, preached Render Unto Caesar--Or Not last Sunday. I just uploaded the feed so it probably won't show up on iTunes until tomorrow.

Oops: I incorrectly configured the Sermons at First Congo blog and Rev. Stringfellow's sermon Gay Black Man didn't apparently make it to Feedburner correctly. I'm hoping that now that I've fixed the link it will automatically update and make a feed available via iTunes.
Tomorrow?

Subscribers please let me know if it worked.

An eagle-eyed reader pointed out recently that I hadn't updated Pastor Lynice's bio to reflect her formally call as Senior Pastor.

The podcasts seem to be working, so I've mostly been leaving the updates when I upload sermons to the stripped-down sister blog Sermons at First Congo, which I set up to supply the feeds to the podcasts.

And I updated the News at First section, as Kai Lavatai has assumed the newsletter duties. For now the newletter is by email only (announcements will be inserted into the weekly paper bulletin). Subscribe to the New at First here

Learning more and more about this podcasting business.
Still not sure if it is working correctly.

This morning's sermon from Pastor Lynice, I See Dead People, is here.

Fixed the problem with Nichola's photo on her page for her sermon from yesterday, Love's Labor. I still don't get why sometimes an image I save has a JPG extension instead of a jpg extension, but CMSimple (the content management system used on the website) doesn't like the uppercase extensions.

Last week Pastor Lynice preached Solitary Confinement.