Notes on preaching

On looking back at your own sermons — feedback, evaluation, transcripts.

• How to Evaluate a Sermon: A Checklist You Can Actually Use

  A sermon evaluation checklist in four parts — structure, handling of the text, delivery, application — with what to count, what to leave alone, and how to use it on your own preaching.

• Where Do Preachers Actually Get Sermon Feedback?

  Twenty years of preaching and still no honest feedback. Why the door greeting, the elders, your spouse and the associate pastor all fall silent — and the one way to hear your own sermon.

• How to Review Your Own Sermon from a Phone Recording

  Most churches do not film the service. You do not need them to. Where to put the phone, how to get the sermon into text, what to count, and why one Sunday is not enough.

• How to Transcribe a Sermon from YouTube (and What to Do With It)

  Four ways to get a sermon transcript from a YouTube link or a recording — auto captions, free speech-to-text, paid services, and one built for preachers — and the part most people skip: reading it.

• What AI Sermon Feedback Looks At — and What It Should Leave Alone

  For preachers uneasy about the phrase “AI sermon evaluation”. What it can look at, what it must not, and the one test for whether a piece of feedback can be trusted.