To get to Larry Burkett's portion of the website, look for the Money section on crosswalk.com and click on Crown Financial Ministries.  Once there, you'll see many resources about money management from a Christian perspective.

Let's look at the link to his radio broadcasts under the Radio section.  You'll see a list of the past several weeks of radio broadcasts - the same ones that are heard each day on radio stations around the world.

But the advantage of having this information on the Internet is you can listen to the broadcasts anytime, and select those of interest to you.  You can search the broadcasts, for instance, for topics like wills, credit cards, home-buying, and so on.

When you find an audio clip of interest, you can play it right on your computer.  You need to have some kind of speakers on your computer to hear it, and possibly even special software installed (available for free).  Mr. Burkett's broadcast uses RealPlayer, a popular audio format which you may already have on your computer.  

To find out if you can listen to it, click on a link in the Radio section that interests you.  On the day I tried this, I listened to a guest speaker, Tony Evans, talk about Christian Giving.

When you click an audio link, the RealPlayer will start-up if you have it installed.  If it doesn't start, you can download RealPlayer for free from www.real.com.  

(If you notice that you don't have RealPlayer installed and you're feeling adventurous, go ahead and install it now.  It's the same software I use in these workshops for my audio and video clips.  Be sure to choose the "free" version to try it out.  You can also buy a little better version for $20-30, but the free version will be just fine. You'll find instructions to download and install the software on the www.real.com website.)

If you're looking for a large collection of your favorite radio and TV programs on the Internet, go to lightsource.com.  You can listen to shows like Focus on the Family with James Dobson or Gateway to Joy with Elizabeth Elliot, or you can watch television programs like Hour of Power with Robert Schuller or InTouch with Charles Stanley. 

You'll soon see how the Internet is changing the way we think about and use radio and TV, too.  

But before you get too caught up in all the excitement of audio and video on the Internet, let's take a look on the next page at another large Christian portal and learn how to find a ministry quickly.

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