24-1020p Transcript

(0:54) Amen.

Preacher: Scott Reynolds

(1:00) Okay. (1:01) There’s a wealth of information on our website.

(1:05) If you have a phone that has internet capability, I want you to follow along so you can get (1:16) an idea of how to access the website. (1:19) We have a lot of stuff out there that’s really useful. (1:24) And does anybody have a phone? (1:27) Do you know how to get to the web on the phone? (1:30) Know how to bring up websites on the phone? (1:33) Everybody know how to do that? (1:36) Usually there’s something on an Apple phone, they’re looking for something like Safari.

(1:42) That’s Apple’s web browser. (1:44) An application that lets you peruse the internet is called a browser, a web browser. (1:55) Safari on a non-Apple phone, it can be Google Chrome, it can be Firefox, Mozilla Firefox, (2:06) something like that.

(2:07) You need a browser. (2:10) And when you have your browser up, you put in where you want to go, (2:18) wschurchofchrist.org for organization. (2:21) You enter that.

(2:24) That brings up the website. (2:27) And that’s what it looks like on a desktop. (2:31) This resizes for your device.

(2:35) And so this is the home page. (2:38) I’m going to make it look like that’s what a phone kind of would look like. (2:46) This shows up in your phone, a smaller picture of the church and some information up there.

(2:54) Go over and you tap the red expand. (2:58) You have a home button, an education, contact us, Facebook and members. (3:04) We’re not going to talk about Facebook at all.

(3:09) But home, education, contact us, and members we’re going to be looking at. (3:15) Those are the main pages, the one, two, three, four main pages of our website. (3:22) The very first one is the home page.

(3:26) On the home page, we put any kind of notices. (3:29) This is where we used to put COVID messages on our website. (3:34) The Sunday morning Bible classes are canceled.

(3:38) I’ve left that up ever since we decided to do that. (3:41) I haven’t taken it off yet. (3:44) It puts in the current date.

(3:46) And then we have read the Proverbs through in a month, one chapter per day, (3:51) and read the Psalms through in a month, five Psalms per day. (3:56) And it says, see today’s reading schedule and excerpts from the Psalms (4:02) and Proverbs at the bottom of the page. (4:06) And that’s underlined.

(4:08) It’s a link. (4:09) So if you tap on it, it takes you to the bottom of the page. (4:15) And at the bottom of the page, we have the date again and excerpts from Proverbs (4:20) and underlined Proverbs chapter 20.

(4:23) You know why we’re looking at Proverbs chapter 20 today? (4:28) Today is the 20th of the month. (4:33) That’s right. (4:34) Tomorrow when it’s the 21st, it won’t say 20 there.

(4:38) It will say 21. (4:40) It will have the 21st on it, 21st chapter. (4:44) On October 21st, it will be Proverbs 21.

(4:48) Because there are 30 Proverbs chapters in 31. (4:55) There are 31 chapters in Proverbs. (4:59) And on a 31-day month, that’s one chapter a day, just like we said.

(5:06) Read the Proverbs through in a month, one chapter per day. (5:10) So on a 31-day month, whatever the number of the day is, is the chapter you read. (5:19) And this tells you that.

(5:22) Now, the Psalms are more difficult. (5:25) There are 150 Psalms. (5:29) So if you take a 30-day month and divide it by five, it comes out equally.

(5:36) So if you read five Psalms a day in 30 days, you’ll read 150 Psalms. (5:46) So on the 20th, what five Psalms would you read to be on schedule? (5:54) Well, you would be on the 96th, 97th, 8th, 9th, and 100th Psalm. (6:01) On the 21st, it’s going to be 101 through 105.

(6:08) But this tells you that. (6:09) You don’t have to calculate. (6:13) And then, they can’t give you, we don’t have enough room.

(6:18) I mean, we do, but who wants to scroll through all that? (6:23) Five Psalms, 96, 97, that’s a lot to scroll through. (6:29) So if you want that, go to the Bible. (6:31) So what I did is I put excerpts from that.

(6:37) And over five months, it’s a different excerpt for each on the 20th. (6:43) For the next five months, it will be a different piece there of the 20th chapter. (6:52) All right, so we use the World English Bible because there’s no copy.

(6:57) The copyright says you can display it if you want, however you want. (7:02) So we can do that. (7:05) And this is the notes in the Bible, the first collection of Solomonic Proverbs.

(7:14) And it’s a continuation that Solomonic Proverbs are Proverbs 10, verse 1, (7:22) through Proverbs 22, and verse 16. (7:25) This happens to fit in there. (7:28) It’s the 20th, and we’re looking at verses 25 through 30.

(7:34) So there that is. (7:37) Sometimes you get a little bit more than fits in this little window. (7:40) The window does not expand.

(7:42) This gray area does not expand, so you’ll be able to scroll if there’s more information. (7:48) And then it’s choosing. (7:59) We happen to be in the fifth month of the cycle, (8:04) because if we were on the first month of the cycle, it would have been 96.

(8:08) You don’t have to know any of that. (8:11) It’s just so it doesn’t repeat the same one every month. (8:14) It goes to one of the different five over five months.

(8:18) Okay, so it’s telling you the excerpt I’m going to give you is from the 100 Psalm. (8:27) And it’s Psalm 100. (8:31) This is Book 4 in the Psalms.

(8:34) And it’s Psalm 90 through 106 is Book 4. (8:38) And 100 is in that range. (8:42) And it’s the first five verses. (8:46) Okay, so then when you’re done with that, you can click back to the top, (8:51) and it takes you back to the top.

(8:54) Okay, so the next piece that comes up in our website is I don’t know what to call it. (9:00) This is to let people know on the home page what we’re all about. (9:05) And we’re a non-denominational church.

(9:07) The congregation is dedicated to worshiping God in spirit and in truth (9:10) as closely as we can ascertain from the New Testament. (9:14) We search the scriptures for guidance and authority (9:18) and how we ought to live our lives in order to be pleasing to God. (9:23) And then to learn more about us, there’s our e-mail address.

(9:28) Okay, then we have some pictures of the church. (9:32) Okay, so the next thing that comes up are the most current sermons. (9:36) So we have the most recent a.m. and p.m. sermons on the home page.

(9:44) We have all of the sermons since 2020, January of 2020, (9:50) on our website on the education page. (9:54) I’ll show you that in a moment. (9:57) Okay, then we have this article, the Sunday morning article.

(10:02) And if you notice, that’s what’s on our newsletter also, (10:08) on the back page of our newsletter. (10:10) This is the same article. (10:13) What’s good about this is so is the one before that and the one before that.

(10:21) So this has all of 2024. (10:24) All the articles that have been on our newsletter are in here for 2024. (10:34) If you keep on scrolling down, you get back to the Psalms and Proverbs.

(10:39) And then at the bottom of the four pages we were talking about, (10:43) the home page, education page, contact us page, and the member page, (10:51) all four of those have a footer at the bottom. (10:55) The Facebook one does not. (10:57) The Facebook one takes you to Facebook.

(11:00) So on the footer is our Sunday, Wednesday services and our church location. (11:08) So if somebody wants to know, if somebody asks you, you know, blah, blah, blah, (11:11) look at our website at the bottom of the page, or the contact page, (11:17) the contact us page has all kinds of information about locating us. (11:22) But the footer has a lot of information on it.

(11:26) Okay. (11:26) That’s the home page. (11:29) We go to our education page.

(11:32) So tap the red thing that comes up with that list and tap on education, (11:38) and it takes you here. (11:42) And it’s got the little picture with the education page, (11:45) and then it has links to the content that’s down. (11:49) If I were on the desktop, you’d scroll easily and you wouldn’t need that, (11:53) so it doesn’t show up on the desktop, this little section here, the links.

(11:59) But on a phone, it’s kind of nice to have. (12:03) All right. (12:04) So we have Sunday class recordings, notes, and articles.

(12:07) We have Wednesday class recordings, notes, and articles. (12:11) We do record our classes. (12:16) Previous Bible studies, the Bible and science, Bible facts, (12:24) those three are kind of outdated.

(12:27) I don’t have time to get to them. (12:30) So if anybody wants to help, that would be great. (12:34) I’ll show you how to help me type stuff in.

(12:39) All that stuff. (12:41) Okay. (12:42) So in the Sunday recording, the class itself is canceled, (12:50) so the most recent recording is July 3rd, 2022, (12:56) but we have everything before that to December 20th, 2020.

(13:04) We didn’t always used to record the classes. (13:07) We started to, not until the end of December of 2020. (13:14) So all those we recorded.

(13:18) It’s sporadic. (13:19) Not every class was recorded. (13:22) On these bars, you tap it.

(13:26) It expands to show the stuff below it. (13:30) There are notes. (13:31) Some of the classes had notes, so there are notes in there.

(13:36) You can go to there. (13:39) It brings up a note, which is part 5, Hebrews 7, 28 through 10. (13:45) This is the Hebrews class.

(13:48) Those are notes. (13:49) The most recent is February of 2022 for the Sunday class. (13:56) Then again, here’s a list.

(13:59) Instead of scrolling on the front page through all of the stuff for the Sunday class, (14:06) you can come to the Sunday morning class of the education page (14:13) and go to the Sunday class articles, (14:16) and this has them all also, but you can go directly to it. (14:22) It has a list, an index, and this is more than just 2024. (14:27) It’s all the way back to January 5th, Steve Cain’s.

(14:33) We have Steve Cain’s messages that were in our newsletter from January 5th (14:41) all the way to March 1st. (14:43) Those are all Steve’s. (14:46) This is current with October 20th.

(14:50) If we go back up to the top, Sunday morning classes and articles, we got through that. (14:57) Now there’s the Wednesday class recordings, notes, and articles, (15:02) and Wednesday is an active class, and we’re recording time. (15:07) Here’s Tom’s classes.

(15:10) The 16th was last Wednesday. (15:15) It was his 75th Christian Apologetics class, Christian Apologetics Part 75. (15:26) Now I added something recently, and we only have—I went back to July, (15:35) but I learned how to get our sermons, the recordings of our sermons transcribed, (15:45) and then once you transcribe them, the service is linked to chat with Turbo.

(15:51) It’s called TurboScribe. (15:53) It takes the audio recording and puts it in word sentence format, sentences in paragraph format, (15:59) and then it has a link to ChatGPT, which is another AI, artificial intelligence, (16:08) and it will summarize the transcript that TurboScribe generated. (16:18) So if you go to his notes, I have the detailed summary, (16:23) and the detailed summary was generated by ChatGPT.

(16:29) We also have the transcript. (16:32) To see the transcript, and the transcription was by TurboScribe, that’s also an AI. (16:38) If you click on the HTML—well, not the HTML.

(16:42) The transcript is what Tom said, word for word, (16:48) and I put—I left the timestamps in so you can see what time he said that in the recording, (16:58) and then you can go back and then hit the summary because ChatGPT put the timestamps in. (17:06) So on the transcript, I have timestamps, and then Chat had timestamps on the summary that we’re looking at. (17:15) So you can find out if you’re in here and you want to see exactly.

(17:20) You know, here it says at the 30-second mark, within the first minute, (17:26) Tom had an introduction to signposts, pointing to God, and then before the minute was up, (17:34) he also had Jesus' example and human doubt. (17:40) So you could go to the transcript and look up with the timestamp to see exactly what he said. (17:47) Chat summarized this, too.

(17:50) So here’s the summary of what Tom said Sunday night. (17:55) So you can look at his classes. (17:58) If you’re not sure what he said or you want to find the scripture that he references, that’s in the transcript.

(18:05) All that information is available. (18:08) And we can even listen to them because you can bring up the notes and go back here (18:14) and then start the recording, and then you can read along as he’s talking. (18:21) All right.

(18:22) Other Bible studies that’s outdated, elementary teachings. (18:28) It’s the first principles out of Hebrews 6, 1, and 2. (18:32) Tips on how to do a topic study. (18:36) These are links, so if you click on them, it brings up.

(18:40) These are just my notes, not Jim’s notes. (18:43) Jim’s had more thorough notes. (18:47) This is what I had.

(18:50) Romans class recordings, I put those in there. (18:53) The apologetics Bible and science. (18:56) The Bible is apologetics.

(18:59) The Church of Christ, here’s the Apologetics Press website. (19:04) So it will take you right to the apologetics website. (19:08) You can look at all that stuff.

(19:11) Got a wealth of information as featured in this morning’s lesson. (19:17) And then the denominational stuff. (19:22) There’s the Institute of Creation Research, the Ark Encounter.

(19:27) So about the Ark. (19:30) There’s the Ark, by the way. (19:32) Have you seen that, pictures of that? (19:33) The Ark in Tennessee.

(19:36) There it is. (19:37) That’s the actual size of the Ark according to Biblical specifications. (19:45) There’s little cars and stuff.

(19:48) There’s the Ark. (19:52) A reference. (19:54) See that little stuff there? (19:56) Looks like English.

(19:59) All right. (20:00) So that and then Creation Museum also. (20:04) There’s a bunch of other stuff.

(20:06) I just didn’t put the links in. (20:08) Bible facts, those are way out. (20:10) They’re just frameworks, so nothing really in there.

(20:14) Then comes the sermons and notes. (20:16) And I went back to August, August 18, and all of this is what the same thing that I did for Tom, like Tony Bodecker. (20:38) I took his recording and submitted it.

(20:41) This is the summary of what Tony said when he was here. (20:45) I put in the Scripture readings also and who read them. (20:50) Kevin Woolsley and Tom Fried read the morning Scripture.

(20:55) And then here’s what Tony had, the words of encouragement. (20:59) This is the summary. (21:00) It’s not the transcript.

(21:05) Personal reflections on gratitude, importance of the Gospel, need for preachers and hearing the Gospel, (21:11) human need for salvation, society’s war with truth and sin. (21:19) There’s the outline more or less of the sermon, the summary. (21:24) And if you want, what’s cool about this, I can start him talking.

(21:33) And now they can read along with it if you want to tell them about Nahum. (21:37) The story of Nahum in space, part two. (21:45) Also, I’m going to have to wrap it up actually.

(21:49) But anyway, also in here, I’ll go to the bottom of the page, January 5, Steve Cain. (21:58) This is all Steve Cain stuff. (22:01) I started doing some of his.

(22:05) So he has one, and they’re all pretty deep that he had. (22:12) So in the evening on January 12 of 2020, Steve preached about Jesus as high priest. (22:23) This whole section in January for a few weeks, he was doing the Hebrews out of the book of Hebrews.

(22:31) And so there’s all that stuff that he was talking about, about Hebrews and the points he was making. (22:44) And you can go to, if he referenced a scripture, you could go to in here and see where that reference was. (22:56) Let me get back to the top.

(22:58) And just quickly, I’ll show you the members page. (23:04) Down here, you’ll need to type in your first name dot last name. (23:14) So Walter.

(23:15) You would do W-A-L-T-E-R dot Kobisky. (23:23) That’s the ID. (23:25) Your first name dot last name.

(23:28) Then the password is the Church of Christ password, lowercase, no spaces, no colons. (23:41) If I had some help, I would have somebody help me do a proper login. (23:47) But right now, that’s all we can do.

(23:50) Your first name, last name. (23:52) And I don’t want to save that. (23:55) And it came up and it said, Welcome, Walter Kobisky.

(23:58) You are successfully logged in. (24:01) So you’re in there. (24:03) And then on our member page, we have a prayer list that’s also in our newsletter.

(24:11) I keep them there. (24:13) They’re the same. (24:14) So the difference between HTML and PDF, here’s a PDF.

(24:21) And if you want to print or download so you can print, you would tap the PDF. (24:31) That’s why it’s there. (24:33) Otherwise, on your phone, you don’t want to use PDF because a phone can’t handle it.

(24:43) So use the main link, and that’s the HTML, which resizes for your device. (24:50) So that’s why this here, it flows and it’s easier to see. (24:55) Okay.

(24:57) We have a church directory. (24:59) It’s woeful. (25:00) Even though it says 12-4-2023, it’s woefully out of date.

(25:06) Okay. (25:07) Conference call information. (25:09) What do you do on a conference call? (25:12) That’s in our members' website.

(25:15) You click on that, and it comes up here and tells you the call-in number. (25:20) We actually have two numbers. (25:22) One needs a code.

(25:23) We don’t use that one hardly anymore. (25:26) And then one doesn’t need an access code. (25:28) And that’s the one pretty much everybody uses.

(25:32) And then there’s some recommendations on commuting, how to do communion, the offering, (25:41) responding to the invitation, and participating. (25:44) So that’s all there. (25:46) Okay.

(25:47) Then our bylaws are available from that website. (25:53) Those are bylaws. (25:56) Then the next six sections are what we use, all but one of them.

(26:03) Only five are actually used anymore. (26:06) Our programs that we come up with, I call it virtual church because we were calling from home. (26:12) I mean, really at the church.

(26:14) We were faking it that we were at the church. (26:18) So I called it virtual church because virtual isn’t reality. (26:23) Anyway, virtual church.

(26:26) This is the last three months. (26:29) And then it expires. (26:32) I only keep a few because we don’t need these anymore.

(26:37) The newsletter, we have all the newsletters from when we started going virtual April 5th, 2020. (26:50) Every newsletter since then. (26:55) So those, I don’t plan on aging them off.

(26:59) They’ll just be there. (27:02) Sermon assignments. (27:04) This is where I get from Mike.

(27:07) I give him a blank form, and he gives me the filled-in form. (27:11) And then that filled-in gets put on our website and gets posted on the back board. (27:17) This is that information.

(27:22) But it’s available on the member’s website. (27:26) So if you want to look at it at any time, you can go to it and have the most recent version of that document. (27:36) So that’s sermon assignment.

(27:39) I don’t do the Devo anymore. (27:42) That is outdated. (27:47) And song leader schedule.

(27:50) We have all the song leader schedules. (27:53) There’s that. (27:55) And that helps Mike, I imagine, to schedule the services.

(28:02) See who’s trying not to overschedule anybody. (28:07) And then service assignments. (28:08) And this is what you also see in the back.

(28:14) So all of it’s available, and this is what’s updated before it gets published here. (28:22) So this is the most current version that’s always on our website. (28:29) And this is also the document that gets linked to in the email.

(28:34) So in an email, like I sent out, this was for tonight. (28:43) You have tonight’s program, and you also have the October service assignments, the September, (28:52) October sermon assignments that we looked at, and then the song leader schedule. (28:57) So you have the three main schedules we use for our services.

(29:02) And you get to them just by clicking on it, and it brings it up. (29:06) So you don’t actually have to go to the member’s website to do that. (29:12) Get the most recent in October.

(29:14) We’ll have October’s information on it. (29:17) So any one of the emails for services for the current month will have links to those schedules. (29:32) So if you need to see any of that information, look for your email.

(29:36) And even if you don’t have, like, today’s, you could look at last week’s, (29:41) and those links would take you to the same documents, last week’s. (29:45) That was October. (29:47) All right.

(29:49) So I’ll conclude with that. (29:52) What do you think? (29:53) Is that useful? (29:56) So we’ll extend the invitation to, I guess we can add this. (30:01) We’ve got to do the song.

(30:03) Anybody who needs it, come while we stand and sing. (30:06) And whoever’s going to lead, you might want to do it from here so it gets recorded.