Welcome to the Journey Into Wholeness Podcast!  We are excited you have joined us in our pursuit of Jesus and the Word!  Join us each week as a new episode is released from Stephen Manley’s sermon collection.  We hope and desire you will experience the Person of Jesus and the depth and Truth of the Word at a deeper and more intimate level than ever before.  Below is information to acquaint you with podcasting and the message we are proclaiming.  It contains information about how to listen and subscribe to the podcast.  To go to the podcast page (where you can listen and download the podcast) click the button below.

Podcasting 101 – What is a Podcast?

A podcast is simply a radio broadcast for your computer.  But it’s far more than that!  It is perfect for the “on the go” individual.  Imagine getting on your computer and taking a sermon with you on your workout, errands, commute, or quiet time.  Imagine waking each week to find a new sermon automatically downloaded to your computer.  Well it can be a reality with the beauty of podcasting.  How you ask?  Great question!

A radio broadcast must be tuned in each week at a particular time on a specific day.  You are confined by time, location, and distractions.  But what if that same broadcast was made available online for you to listen at your pleasure?  With the Journey Into Wholeness Podcast, you can listen each week online or you can download the sermon to listen whenever you want.  Whether you burn a CD or upload the sermon onto your MP3 device, the sermon becomes yours to do with as you desire.  But the greatest benefit of podcasts is the ability to subscribe to it (see Subscribe? below).

Listen Online and Download How To

If you want to listen online, its easy!  Go to the Journey Into Wholeness Podcast page [click here] and you’ll see the list of episodes (sermons) available.  To listen to any of the episodes, click on the link below the description called “direct download.”  Clicking on this link will automatically start playing the sermon.  If you don’t want to sit online listening, you can download the sermon to your computer by right-clicking “direct download” and choosing “save target/link as.”

Subscribe? Yes!  Just like subscribing to a magazine and receiving the new issue in your mailbox when its released, you can do the same with a podcast!  Instead of checking this site every week anxiously awaiting the release of the next sermon, when the new episode (sermon) is released, it can automatically be downloaded to your computer.  How?  Well… here is where it becomes a bit more difficult (but we’ll walk through it together, so don’t worry).  The easiest way to subscribe to a podcast is by downloading iTunes (its free!).  iTunes is a program to organize the music on your computer and it allows you to subscribe to podcasts.  So you have two choices.  First you can check back each week on this website to see if a new episode is available and listen to it.  Or second, you can download iTunes, subscribe to the podcast, and have it automatically download to your computer each week.

To download iTunes and subscribe to the podcast:

1. Go to iTunes.com [click here] and choose “download iTunes.” (though iTunes is anApple product, you can download the program for either PC or Mac)

2. After it has downloaded, click here to take you to the Journey Into Wholeness Podcast subscription page in the iTunes store. 

The iTunes Store is a place where they not only sell music but you can search for free podcasts to download to your computer

3.On the subscription page it has information about the podcast and at the top near the picture there is a button where you can “subscribe.”  By clicking the button you have added the Journey Into Wholeness Podcast to your iTunes.  It will take a moment to download the episodes. 

4. In iTunes, click on “Podcast” under “Library” in your left hand navigation bar.  Your list of podcast subscriptions is listed.  By choosing the arrow on the left of the name “Journey Into Wholeness” you can see all the episodes listed.

4a. Any episodes in black can be listened to by double-clicking on them

4b. Any episodes in grey have not been automatically download and you must choose “get” on the right side of the episode (near the time)

5. You’re finished! Now whenever a new episode is released, you will find it in your iTunes program.

5a. iTunes checks for new episodes online everyday.  If you’re computer is not automatically connected to the internet you will need to connect at least once a week and open your iTunes program (so it can automatically download the new episodes)

5b. If you are interested in organizing your music in iTunes, see the “help” section in iTunes.

iPod, Zune, and other MP3 devices

Do I need a MP3 player to use a podcast?  No!  You can listen online or even download the sermon to your computer and even burn it onto a CD.  But if you have an iPod, Zune, or other MP3 device you can upload the Journey Into Wholeness Podcast sermon onto your device and take it with you wherever you go.  Please consult your MP3 device instructions.

The Manley Message

Stephen Manley is committed and passionate about the Word and Person of Jesus.  The Journey Into Wholeness Podcast is a collection of Stephen’s sermons from the past 25 years of itinerant evangelism.  The majority of episodes are expositional sermons from the book of Matthew… though later on there will be many from the book of Acts as well.  So what are you waiting for?  Dive in, soak in the Word, and experience Jesus at a deeper and more intimate level!