Download a sermon to your PC or portable media player

So, you have just purchased a brand new MP3 player or perhaps a super-cool iPhone and are looking for ways to justify the purchase. The church website has come to your rescue. We have been running a sermon podcast blog for the last month and a half. Here is how you can download the sermon for this week onto your MP3 player using a variety of tools

Downloading the sermons via iTunes
Downloading the sermons via Windows Media Player

ITunes

1. Start iTunes on your PC
2. Click on Advanced | Subscribe to podcast
3. Paste the following into the URL window: http://www.whbconline.org/sermons/atom.xml
4. iTunes will add the sermon podcast to your list of podcasts and will download the most recent post. You can also download other entries (or all of them) by clicking on the Get buttons
   
5. Now that you have the podcasts on your PC, plug in your iPod
6. When the iPod icon appears in iTunes select it and then pick the Podcasts tab
7. Select Sync and tell iTunes which podcasts you want to automatically sync

iTunes will now automatically place the latest podcasts on your iPod

Windows Media Player

1. Windows Media Player is a little harder to use with the podcast. There are a variety of approaches to making it work
1. Download the files manually via your web browser to a WHBC folder inside of the My Music folder on your PC
2. When you start Windows Media Player it will automatically recognize the files you have manually downloaded
3. You can then sync the songs to your MP3 player
   
2. Another approach that is a little bit more automated is to use an approach similar to the one documented on this website. It involves setting up a little bit of software but the approach here can be used to automatically update your device as new sermons become available.