Podcast episodes
What you’ll do: Turn the sermon into a podcast episode, and optionally create a conversation about it between two AI hosts.
5 minutes of your time, plus generation
Podcast generation works, but it’s newer than the rest of EBENEZER. Listen to what it produces before you publish it, particularly the first few times.
Open the PODCASTS tab from your sermon’s review page. There are two independent cards. You can use one, both, or neither.
The sermon as an episode
The first card takes your sermon audio, tops it with a short spoken introduction, and sends it to your podcast host.
- Press Generate Sermon Audio with Intro.
- Wait while it extracts the audio and uploads it.
- When it finishes, use the player to listen back before doing anything else.
There’s no separate publish step and no confirmation dialog. One click generates the episode and sends it straight to Podbean. It arrives there as a draft, so it isn’t public until you publish it from Podbean — but it is out of EBENEZER’s hands at that point.
EBENEZER tries to find where the sermon itself begins and ends, so your episode doesn’t open with twenty minutes of worship or close with the announcements. It looks for the way a service typically opens and for the final amen.
Services that start differently — an evening service, a guest speaker, a different greeting — can slip past it, and you’ll get the whole recording instead. Skip to the start and the end in the player and you’ll know in ten seconds.
The discussion episode
The second card makes something different: a conversation about your sermon between two hosts, around eighteen minutes long. It’s for people who’ve already heard the sermon and want it unpacked, or for people who’d never sit through a sermon but might listen to two people discussing one.
- Press Generate Discussion Podcast.
- Give it three to five minutes. This one takes a while — it writes the conversation, then performs it.
- Listen to it in the player, and open View Script to read the whole conversation.
This is the only thing EBENEZER makes where words are put in a speaker’s mouth that nobody at your church said. It’s built from your sermon, but the phrasing is generated. Read the script through the first several times you use it, until you trust how it handles your preaching.
Your two hosts are named in your podcast settings — they default to Sarah and Marcus. Change them to whatever suits your church.
Keeping or sharing the audio
Both cards give you:
- A player, so you can listen without leaving EBENEZER.
- Download MP3, if you want the file for your own archive or to hand to someone.
- Listen on Podbean, which opens the episode on your host.
You need a podcast host connected
Episodes are uploaded to Podbean. If generation fails with a connection error, that hasn’t been set up yet — see setting up your podcast platform.
Generation failed, or the episode has worship in it? See the troubleshooting guide.