The only AI sermon tool built for mainline pastors

Make your sermon pop.
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Sermon Helper sharpens your sermon with deep research, commentary synthesis, and Greek & Hebrew on the load-bearing words — and completes a dozen tasks around it. Bulletin liturgy. Music selection (using your hymnal). Kids' moment. Daily devotionals. Social posts. Website content. Sermon-promo slides for worship and Facebook. Post-Sunday follow-ups. All in your voice. In a mainline style. Reformed by default.

14 days free. No card required.

What you get

One Sermon in.
A week of ministry out.

Pre-Sunday WAVE 1

Generated Mon–Tue.

  • Full bulletin trained on your church's order of worship
  • Pre-Sunday Bible study (60–75 min single session)
  • Music director handoff — hymn picks from your hymnal, familiar-tune substitutions
  • Sermon-title promo slides — worship slide, website hero, Facebook share
  • Children's moment script + prop list
  • Daily devotionals (Mon–Sat)
  • Social meditations + branded image cards
  • Website "this Sunday" copy
  • Newsletter article + email teaser
  • Slide deck outline

Post-Sunday WAVE 2

Generated Mon–Tue after preaching.

  • Blog-post adaptation
  • YouTube metadata + chapter markers + thumbnail prompt
  • 3–5 short-form clips with timestamps, hooks, captions
  • Four staggered social follow-ups (day-of, day-after, mid-week, week-later)
  • Pull-quote graphics — ready-to-post 1080×1080 cards
  • Searchable archive entry
  • Post directly to your socials (coming soon)

Series-level WAVE 3

Occasional.

  • Series arc check
  • Series graphic concept
  • Confirmation / youth tie-in
  • End-of-series Bible-study booklet (print-ready PDF)

Plus: standalone Preaching Insights Report — archive analysis on every plan.

See the full breakdown by plan →

Why we built this

Three things every mainline pastor recognizes
but doesn't say out loud.

01

The list never ends.

Every consultant has a list of what your church should be doing now. Social media. Email teasers. The blog. The weekly newsletter. The website you'd love to refresh. The kids' curriculum. The hymn handoff to the music director four weeks out. The bulletin liturgy that's actually theme-connected. You'd do it all if there were enough hours. There aren't.


02

Your preaching is getting stale, and you know it.

You used to read four commentaries before writing. Now you read one. You don't want to plagiarize, and you don't have time to chase down the Greek every week. You feel yourself returning to the same six texts. Your illustrations are starting to repeat — not because they fit, but because they're handy. The third draft hasn't happened in months.


03

No one tells you the truth about your sermons.

The congregation is too kind. The elders are too political. Your spouse is too close. The presbytery colleague hears one sermon a year. You drift, and you can't see the drift — the same six texts, the rock-climbing story for the fifth time, the Spirit hardly named while your congregation buries members. Most pastors first hear what was happening on sabbatical, six years too late.

The question pastors keep asking

How do I use AI ethically
and still save time?

This is the question. Most pastors using AI today are wrestling with it. Some land in shame. Some land in shortcuts. We tried to land somewhere honest.

The principle: let AI do the legwork. Keep your hand on the wrestling — and on every word that goes out under your name.

Where you stay in control

Your voice. Your pastoral heart. The wrestling itself — what God is saying to this congregation through this text. The final word on every output. Every cascade lands in your account first; you read, edit, and approve before anything goes anywhere.

Where we do the legwork

A research synthesis covering historical and literary context, the major theological readings of the text (and where they diverge), and modern scholarship — pulled together in one document. The Greek or Hebrew on the load-bearing words. A dozen sermon ideas, lectionary or off-cycle, fit to your voice. Cross-references across the canon. Illustrations vetted against your archive so you stop recycling. Optional: a first-draft manuscript you rewrite, not just edit.

Where we do the rest

The bulletin, the music handoff, the kids' moment, the devotionals, the social posts, the website content, the sermon-promo slides for worship and Facebook, the post-Sunday cascade. All in your voice. All theme-connected. All without your time.

The result isn't "save time." It's "do a tenfold better job in the time you already have"and punch every content task off your list that you know you're supposed to be doing but aren't.

"ChatGPT does not love my people."

— Rev. Dr. Andy Morgan, First Presbyterian Church Knoxville (PCUSA)

He's right. ChatGPT doesn't love your people either. Cold AI sounds evangelical-flavored, hallucinates verses, gives you generic boilerplate where you needed a full Great Thanksgiving. That's because every other AI sermon tool was built for non-denominational, evangelical, or Baptist preaching — with a denomination dropdown bolted on later.

Sermon Helper is the first one built for mainline pastors as the default. Mainline style guides. Trained on your voice. Lectionary-aware. Knows your hymnal. Reformed sacramental theology baked in, not retrofitted. Magisterium did this for Catholic. Nobody had done it for the rest of us.

The Preaching Insights Report

What every pastor learns on sabbatical —
without taking one.

Upload your sermon archive once. Sermon Helper reads every sermon and gives you the kind of read you can only get when someone reviews three years of your preaching at one sitting. Free with every plan.

"You've cited Paul four times more than the Gospels."

Self-image vs. corpus reality. Most preachers think they preach broader than they do.

"You've used the rock-climbing illustration four times."

Cosine-similarity clustering catches recycled stories. Tells you what to retire.

"You've preached on the Holy Spirit three times in 142 sermons."

Theme gaps surfaced against your archive. Descriptive, not judgmental — the Spirit is just one of many a mainline pastor commonly under-preaches.

Plus a Preaching Plan: a forward calendar of text + theme suggestions that close the gaps the report surfaced, biblical books and themes you haven't preached on, and series ideas. Regenerate any time.

Pricing

Pick the plan that fits
your week.

Annual billing saves ~17% (pay 10, get 12). 14-day free trial on every plan. No card required. Cancel anytime.

Sermon
$19/ month
The cascade, text-only. For solo pastors who skip the social stuff.
Wave 1 + Wave 2 cascade (text only)
Music director handoff with hymn picks
Bulletin liturgy with full Great Thanksgiving
Children's moment + daily devotionals
Preaching Insights Report
KJV & WEB translations
4 sermons / month
Email support
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Pastor Plus
$69/ month
Image-heavy, multi-translation, social on the way.
Everything in Pastor, plus:
150 image regenerations / month
All paid translations: NRSVue, NLT, NKJV, NASB, CEB
Unlimited sermons / month
Music director secondary user
Coming soon: one-click social scheduling (Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn)
Priority support + early-access features
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Image overage: $0.15 / image (Pastor) or $0.10 / image (Pastor Plus). Onboarding builds your preaching profile + church profile from your archive and website automatically. Markdown-bundle export anytime.

Real obstacles. Real answers.

The questions every workshop gets.

I tried ChatGPT once. It was bad.

Most pastors have. Cold ChatGPT has nothing to work with — no archive, no church context, no liturgical tradition. Sermon Helper starts with your full sermon archive and your church website, builds two profiles automatically, and runs every cascade against them. The first cascade you generate already sounds like you preaching to your people. The difference between cold-prompting and profile-aware is the difference between generic Reformed boilerplate and a sermon for this congregation on this Sunday.

Is using AI for any of this cheating?

An "eager but sometimes mistaken intern" is the framing pastors keep landing on, and we agree. The sermon is yours; AI does the legwork around it. If you opt into the prep pipeline, AI is a research assistant and outline architect — but Phase 4 is pastor-input-only, and Phase 7 lets you write the manuscript yourself if you want.

Will my sermons be used to train AI?

No. Your sermon archive is summarized at onboarding so we can build your preaching profile and identify your preaching habits, recurring themes, and topics you may not have covered — then the original files are deleted. The AI providers we use don't train their models on API traffic, so your sermons don't end up in someone else's chatbot. You can delete your account and all associated data at any time.

What denominations are supported?

Default is PCUSA, with bulletin liturgy trained on the Book of Common Worship. UMC, Episcopal, ELCA, RCA, ECO, EPC, ACNA, evangelical Presbyterian all supported. Non-mainline traditions (SBC, Pentecostal, non-denominational) work, but onboarding takes a longer conversation about worship culture.

My sermon archive is a mess.

Typical case. .docx, .pdf, .txt, .md all supported. Upload everything you have — even with inconsistent filenames, even without dates. The Insights Report works on whatever you've got; the more you upload, the sharper it gets.

How is this different from Pulpit AI / Sermon Shots / Sermonary?

Three things. Mainline by default — we're the only one. The others are evangelical-coded with denomination dropdowns. Real BCW liturgy — full Great Thanksgiving, not vague evangelical fragments. Honest archive feedback — the Insights Report is unique to Sermon Helper. No competitor reads your full archive and tells you what you've been preaching too much, what you're missing, or what illustrations you've recycled.

Ready to start?

14 days free.
No card required.

Run a cascade on this week's sermon and see what your preaching looks like in aggregate. If it's not for you, walk away — nothing was charged.

Built by Pastor Dave Baker, M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary, working PCUSA Stated Clerk.