And I Thought We Had A Lot Of Tapes
This week I found an incredible resource that anyone desiring to listen to Biblical teachings should check out: discipleshiplibrary.com. This site is in the process of sorting and digitizing around 30,000 messages from the past 50-60 years!!! That is ten times as many tapes as in our tape library. It’s hard to say how many are already on the website, but the number is definitely in the hundreds, and perhaps in the thousands.
Most of these messages come from either the Navigators audio archive or the tape library of the Baptist Student Union at the University of Oklahoma. Many of the teachings are from speakers/authors whose names you might recognize, like Dawson Trotman, Lorne Sanny, LeRoy Eims, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, Robert Coleman, J. Oswald Sanders, Howard Hendricks and A.W. Tozer. The statement of faith for the site seems pretty right-on, and of course with teachings from the sources they are pulling from there should be little worry about questionable theology anyway. (Of course, use your head and evaluate any teaching you might hear against the scriptures themselves!)
Message on the site are available in either MP3 format, or in streaming WMA format. Some messages have .pdf files of notes or outlines as well. The only complaint I have about this site is that they do a stupid operating system/browser check before letting you in. I only had a problem with this on our Linux laptop. At first I got a pop-up error message telling me that because I had a “non-windows or mac OS and a non-compatible browser” their site would not work properly. How silly is that!
To get around the problem, I simply installed the Firefox User Agent Switcher (which fools websites into thinking you have a different browser and OS than you are really using, but doesn’t change anything really about how the web browser works) and the site works perfectly fine, (possibly even better than in IE). There is no reason they couldn’t let a computer running linux with a mozilla-based browser into their site without any user-aget monkey business. I will probably email the webmaster soon and tell them just that! Normally I would advocate boycotting a site with such a silly browser/OS check, but this is such a great resource I would hate for anyone to miss it.
Wow sounds like a cool resource.
Even more wow is that you have caught up to your husband in computer geekiness! Scho uh…the uh… you have to be a computer geek to get frustrated with a “non-windows” webshite because you are running a shweet Linux shystem. {{adjusting glasses}} The more amazhing thing ish that you knew how to get around it (inconchieveable) and your exchited about rubbing it in the shilly webmashtersh fache.
Mac and Linux usersh unite!
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