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Just record it on your phone. We tell you how it landed, with the words you actually said beside every point.

The voice memo app is enough — no camera, no livestream. A YouTube link works too, and only you ever see the report.

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What you said

“Let us lay it down. Let this quarrel be no quarrel, but a place where we look after one another and walk together in faith. That is what I hope for you and for me.”

Try it this way

“Before you leave today, take the hand of the one person things have been awkward with, say their name, and greet them once. I will ask you about it next Sunday.”

Attach one action their hands can do

The direction is clear, but there is no place saying when, or what. They walk out of the building with a full heart and empty hands.

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Sunday, October 25: which passage will you preach?

22th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 25) — several passages a sermon can take this Sunday, side by side. The introductions are enough to choose; open one to see ways it can go and where to be careful.

GospelMatthew 22:34-46Two Commandments, One LifeIf you choose this passage, the sermon becomes a sermon about what actually holds a whole life with God together once every rule gets reduced to one word: love.Read this one ↓Epistle1 Thessalonians 2:1-8A Minister's Open HandsIf you choose this passage, the sermon becomes a sermon about what it costs to speak for God with no hidden agenda.Read this one ↓Old TestamentDeuteronomy 34:1-12Seeing the Land You Won't EnterIf you choose this passage, the sermon becomes a sermon about finishing well when the goal you worked for your whole life is given to someone else.Read this one ↓Old Testament · alternateLeviticus 19:1-2,15-18Holiness Measured in the Courtroom and the HeartIf you choose this passage, the sermon becomes a sermon about what holiness actually requires in ordinary dealings with neighbors — fair judgment, no grudges, no secret hatred.Read this one ↓OccasionRomans 3:19-28No One Boasts, Everyone Is Justified the Same WayIf you choose this passage, the sermon becomes a sermon about what changes when no human effort can put anyone ahead of anyone else before God.if your church observes Reformation Sunday (last Sunday of October)Read this one ↓OccasionJohn 8:31-36Freedom That Comes From Staying, Not StrivingIf you choose this passage, the sermon becomes a sermon about what real freedom is, against the assumption that freedom means no restraint at all.if your church observes Reformation Sunday (last Sunday of October)Read this one ↓

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Pastors who have received one

After I finish preaching, I always feel I fell short. Yet it is hard even to get feedback on what exactly was missing and how to improve it. Preaching Lab has become a revolutionary companion for me. If there is a capable AI, using it well is itself wisdom God gives. For any preacher who longs to be a better minister of the Word, this will be a wonderful occasion to be challenged and to grow. Preaching Lab, a companion for sermon feedback: I recommend it wholeheartedly.
A pastor in Korea, in her 50s · translated from Korean
Next year will be my 30th since ordination. I have become a man in his 60s whose way of preaching has quietly set hard. Honestly, no one says anything about my preaching anymore, so I had grown complacent about my style and my content. Then I came across Preaching Lab, and it was truly a fresh shock and a challenge. I can say with confidence that I am getting coaching sharper and more accurate than any professor of preaching. Give it a try: a door to remarkable growth in preaching will open. Above all, my privacy is protected, and that puts me at ease. I strongly recommend trying it.
A pastor in Korea, in his 60s · translated from Korean

You can preach for twenty years
and never get feedback

What people say after the service usually stops at “I was blessed,” and there is no room in any presbytery or association where you weigh each other's pulpits.

So most preachers look back on their own preaching through memory alone. Memory keeps the parts that went well.

Why this exists

The person who built this was worried about AI too

I grew up in a pastor's home, hearing my father preach every Sunday. Using AI as it improved month by month, I felt hope — and real concern. Even the people who build these systems call them black boxes. I worried that pastors and churches could end up led by something no one can fully see into.

So I built it the other way around. You write the sermon. We transcribe the one you preached, set it beside you, and give you something to look back on.

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Who does what, said up front

A report is made by a computer, by AI, and by people. Here is exactly how far the AI’s part goes.

WhatWhoHow you can check
Transcribing the sermonSpeech-recognition AINo other AI rewrites the transcript. It is told not to fault you for a recognition error.
Speaking pace · words you repeat · how many times a note has come backComputerCounted by the program, not judged by a person or an AI.
Reading and pointing things out — what went well, what to look at, alternative sentences, the summary, the outline, how each area moves over time, the passage (subscribers also get a cleaned-up manuscript)AIIt is told to quote your own words exactly with every point, so you can check them against the transcript. You can correct the passage yourself.
Questions you ask about a reportA personWe read it and answer ourselves. You are notified when the answer arrives.
What to take and what to leaveYouWhere traditions part ways, it does not declare one side correct. The final call belongs to the one in the pulpit.

What one sermon cannot show

Once the reports start stacking up, things surface that a single sermon will never reveal. That is what this is actually for.

What is gone

There last time, not here this time

Kept apart from what is still there

A note that keeps returning

Four in a row — the verses around the text were not read with it

The same note in different words counts as one

Speaking measures

“you know” 18 → 7

Counted, not judged

All you do is send the sermon

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    Record on your phone, then send the file

    Set your phone near the pulpit and press record — the recorder that came with it is fine. Upload the file from your phone or computer. Already streaming? Paste the YouTube link instead. Send the whole service if you like — we find the sermon inside it. Register your church’s YouTube channel and we will notice new sermons and ask you first.

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    You hear from us before the next morning

    What went well and what to look at together, the outline, and something to work on for the next one. You can also save it as a PDF or print it.

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    We stay with you after the report arrives

    Every point to look at is gathered in one place, and a manuscript shows what you said beside what we suggest. If something in a report is unclear, ask us right there and the answer comes back to you. You can also fix a sermon’s title, date and passage yourself.

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The recorder that came with your phone keeps going when the screen turns off, and the file stays on your phone. Pick that file at preachinglab.cloud and you are done.

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  1. 1Record with the recorder app
  2. 2It is saved as a file · on iPhone, “Save to Files”
  3. 3Sign in at preachinglab.cloud, then “Choose a file”
  4. 4Send it — your report comes before the next morning

From an actual report

This is what arrives

Taken from a real report for a pastor using Preaching Lab, and translated from Korean — the service, the church and the preacher are Korean-speaking. Church, name, sermon title and passage are hidden.

A Wednesday prayer meeting · 47 min

Sermon title withheld

What went well in this sermon

  • “Is it the child holding the mother’s hand, or the mother holding the child’s?” — not one theological term, and they still carry home that it is the Lord who holds on.
  • “Feed the discouraged before anything else” is concrete and can be done the moment they leave. You built it on two passages, which makes it hold.

What to focus on this time

Leave them with one picture as you step down

Earlier you gave the congregation several scenes they could see with their eyes, but the conclusion ends in abstractions. People carry out what they heard last.

What you said“My experience, my testimony — these are not the standard of my life. I believe it is the word of God that is the rock building us up.”

Try it this waybring back one of the pictures you already used. You do not need a new image. Just return one of the scenes you have already shown them to the conclusion.

Every point comes with a quotation from the sermon itself. We do not write anything we cannot ground. And what we suggest instead is a sentence you could use from the pulpit as it stands.

To see a whole report, here it is on sermons everyone can read: Spurgeon, “Compel Them to Come In” (1858) · Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741)

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Things worth saying first

What this program deals with is not the spiritual side but method: how sentences are built, how things are put, how they are delivered. A tool can help with method; the thought and the sincerity remain mine to the end.
A pastor in Korea, in his 60s · translated from Korean
  • We do not write your sermons. We transcribe the one you preached and set it beside you to look back on.
  • We do not invent quotations. Every point is meant to quote your own words, and you can check each one against the transcript.
  • Only you see it. The sermons you send are never used to train AI.

Why we built it this way

I am uneasy about AI assessing a sermon.
That is a fair thing to be uneasy about — we were too. So the AI is given one job: to read the sermon you preached, point out what to look at, and offer alternative sentences. What you take from it is left to you. It is told to quote your own words with every point, so you can check them against the transcript, and where traditions part ways it does not declare one side correct. Only you see the report.
Who can see this report?
Only the preacher. Not the church, not the board, not us. Even where a church holds the contract, a senior pastor or an administrator cannot open an individual minister's report. Showing it to someone happens only when the preacher does it.
What happens to the transcript of my sermon?
It is not used for training. You decide how long it is kept, and we delete it at once if you ask. We consider a sermon to be the preacher's own work.
Our church does not film the service.
A recording is enough. A voice memo from a phone will do. Where you put it does decide the result, though — the sound desk or near the pulpit is the most accurate, and the back of the room picks up reverberation. Near the front is enough.
Is it accurate?
It is speech recognition, so there will be mistakes in the text. That is why it is built not to fault the preacher for a recognition error, and why every point carries a quotation. One wrong point and the whole report stops being believable.

What comes with each sermon

  • Points that quote your own words Each thing to look at comes with the passage from your sermon it is about.
  • Sentences you can use as they are Alternatives written so you could read them from the pulpit.
  • An outline and a PDF Save it or print it.
  • Someone to ask If something in a report is unclear, ask right there. A person answers.

Pricing

Your first sermon is free, with no card. Prices are in US dollars; the exact amount for your country is shown before you pay.

Monthly

$12.99/ month

  • 5 sermons a month
  • 2 cleaned-up manuscripts a month
  • Add the preaching you are aiming at as a measure of its own
  • Reports that track you over time

Yearly

$149.99/ year

  • Everything in monthly
  • Billed once a year

Sermon packs

$2.99–$3.99/ sermon

  • 5 sermons $5.99–$14.99 · 10 sermons $10.99–$25.99
  • Lower in many countries
  • For occasional preachers

Try it with one sermon

If the first report you receive after your first payment was no use to you, just tell us. We will refund it. Ask beside the report or write to hello@preachinglab.cloud. The conditions are in the Terms of Service.

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Want to use it on your phone?

Tell us where to write, and we will send install instructions as soon as the app is out. You do not need to wait for it — your first sermon is free today.

You can start right now, on a computer or a phone — the button at the top. On a phone, open the site in your browser and upload the recording. The Android and iPhone apps are both still on the way; leave your address and we will tell you as soon as they are out.

We send the app instructions to this address. You can read the reports in the app or on your computer.

If there is a sermon you would like us to start with, put it here. A YouTube address is enough. You can also leave it empty and send one from the button at the top.

Write it here and we add it to the report as a measure of its own.

  • What we collect — your name and email (required); church, sermon link, and the preaching you are aiming at (optional)
  • What for — to receive your request for install instructions and let you know the outcome
  • How long — one year from the day you apply

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