Getting started with Sermons

Welcome to Sermons. This is the room where the week's study, writing, and rehearsal all live together. Setup takes under a minute, and this article walks you through it.

First, set your tradition

When you sign up, you'll pick the theological tradition you preach from. We support fourteen — Reformed, Wesleyan, Pentecostal, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Orthodox, Assemblies of God, Foursquare, AME, Vineyard, and Non-denominational. This is not cosmetic. The same passage gets researched differently depending on the tradition you choose, so a Reformed report and a Wesleyan report on the same text will read differently. You set this once, and you can change it later if your context shifts.

Bring in your archive

Your past preaching is an asset, so the next step is to import it. Drag and drop your old manuscripts, paste video links, or drop in audio files. Everything you add is indexed so that Barnabas — the pastoral AI woven through the module — can search and remix it later. Once your archive is in, you can quite literally talk to your own sermon history: ask what you've already preached on a passage, or pull an illustration you used three years ago.

Run your first research report

This is the heart of the module. Here's the quickest path to seeing what it does:

1. Open Deep Research and enter a passage or topic you're preaching soon.
2. Let it run — twenty-three specialized agents study the text in parallel.
3. In about three minutes you'll have a citation-rich report, roughly 23,000 words, every claim tied to a real commentary.

Where each tool lives

• Deep Research — the 23-agent study engine for any passage or topic.
• Sermon Writer — a writing surface that keeps your voice as you move to manuscript.
• Library — your indexed archive of past preaching.
• Sermon Coach — homiletic feedback in about five minutes.
• Rehearsal — an AI partner you can argue with before Sunday.

That's the whole tour. Pick a passage and run a report — it's the fastest way to feel what's here.