Sermons.app is an AI sermon-writing coach built for pastors and teachers who feel the weekly weight of Sunday coming. Instead of generating a sermon for you, it works like a thought partner: asking the questions a wise mentor would ask, reflecting your themes back, and helping you shape the message you already sense God putting on your heart.^1
The coach meets you three ways. Talk it through out loud — record a voice note on a walk, or open a hands-free voice session and it listens, names your big idea, and turns the tangle of your thoughts into a working outline. Draft in a calm, distraction-free editor where highlighting any line brings inline coaching on clarity, length, and fit. Or bring a finished sermon (typed, pasted, or uploaded as a .docx or .pdf) for a voice-preserving review of clarity, structure, application, engagement, and faithfulness to the text.^1 A personal voice profile — built from your own blog posts, podcast feed, and YouTube sermons — keeps its feedback sounding like a sharper version of you, and a searchable sermon memory keeps every illustration, exegetical note, and series thread one search away.^2
Its guiding conviction is "real sermon preparation, never sermon automation." The study, the conviction, and the words your congregation needs from their shepherd stay yours; the coach's job is only to help you say it more clearly.^1 Series planning maps multi-week arcs, a content-repurposing engine turns one sermon into small-group guides, devotionals, and social posts, and finished messages export to Word or PDF for the pulpit.^2 Sermons and drafts are treated as your personal intellectual property: they stay private and are never used to train any AI model.^3
Sermons.app was built by Jon Horton, a pastor ordained in South Carolina in 2015 who led a weekly home church for five years and wanted to bring the kitchen-table conversation of working a message out loud to every preacher.^4 It is operated by NewCulture Consulting.^1
Notable- Three preparation modes (voice talk-through, distraction-free drafting, and finished-draft review) so the coach meets pastors wherever they prepare.^1
- A built-in guardrail against automation: the coach asks and reflects rather than writing the sermon for you.^1
- A voice profile learns your preaching from your own blog, podcast, and YouTube links so feedback protects — not flattens — how you preach.^2
- Searchable sermon memory, series planning, a content-repurposing engine, and a research library keep years of work one search away.^2
- Content is never used to train AI models; sermons remain the pastor's private property, with export and full-account deletion anytime.^3
- Coaching runs on Anthropic (Claude), with OpenAI embeddings for search, and Groq/Deepgram for transcription, routed through the Vercel AI Gateway under no-training processor agreements.^3
- Operated by NewCulture Consulting (Raleigh, NC), founded by pastor Jon Horton.^1
