Preparing a sermon every week is one of the hardest parts of pastoral ministry, especially if you are bivocational. SermonCentral gathers a free research library of over 150,000 pastor-contributed sermons, illustrations, and dramas that you can search for weekly prep.^1 Access to those sermons is free, more than 300 new pieces land each week, and over 250,000 church leaders come to the site every week.^1
A subscription-based PRO membership adds premium illustrations, church media, slides, and finer search.^1 Generative AI helpers include Sermon Outline AI for outlines and starter manuscripts,^2 a Sermon Research Assistant that returns a manuscript, quotes, and matching media,^3 and Funeral Sermon AI for memorial messages.^4 Sermon Outline AI tells pastors not to blindly trust the output and to double-check everything they preach.^2
A free online sermon editor, a built-in Bible reader, and a State of the Church hub mapped to Barna Group flourishing research sit beside the library.^5^7 Sermon Maker carries an Outreach, Inc. copyright.^5 Pew Research Center names SermonCentral among dedicated sites where pastors share sermons in text form.^8 The platform is adamantly opposed to presenting another preacher's work as your own.^9
