Preparing a Sermon Using Preachly
1 - Ask
Start with the text. Ask the Research Assistant about your passage and get a sourced brief: what commentators notice, where scholars disagree, which theologians wrestled with it, and the Greek or Hebrew words worth slowing down for.
2 - Explore
Click a footnote to open the commentary, book, article, or sermon behind it. Tap a name to see that person's writings, the podcasts that discuss them, and the sermons that mention them. Save what matters to your notes.
3 - Remember
Ask the Sermon Librarian what you've already preached on this passage, so you build on it instead of repeating. Check if you’ve covered a topic recently or when the last time was you used that great C.S. Lewis quote.
4 - Write
This one’s on you. Take what you’ve gathered into prayer and into conversation with your community. Write your manuscript or outline your sermon.
5 - Share
Turn your sermon into small-group discussion questions, sermon notes, and a short summary for your website.
Conducting research with Preachly
Ask the Research Assistant the way you’d ask a well-read friend.
Type a question. The Research Assistant searches the Preachly library (scholarship, classic works, sermons, and podcasts), gathers what bears on your question, and answers with numbered footnotes. Every conversation is saved, so you can pick up where you left off.
What you can ask for:
A passage brief: “Give me a brief on Philippians 2”
Greek & Hebrew: “Walk me through paraklētos in John 14”
How other preachers handled it: “Tell me how preachers in NYC have approached the prodigal son.”
A quote: “Find me a line on redemption I could quote, and who said it”
Follow the ideas across articles, books, sermons, podcasts, lectures, and beyond:
Open the original: Follow the footnotes back to the original source text.
Meet the people behind the ideas: Theologians, scholars, and preachers have their own pages covering their writings, where others discuss them, the podcasts that talk about them, and sermons that mention them. One tap takes you from a church father to a sermon preached last month.
Question a single work: Open any book or article and ask for its main argument, key points, an outline, or more.
Keep what you find: Save any answer to your notes with one click. Preachly suggests tags, so your study notes stay findable next year.
Preachly and other AI tools
What makes Preachly different?
Preachly runs on leading AI models, the same kind behind the tools you already know. The difference
is what those models are given to read, and the rules they follow.
Where answers come from
ChatGPT/Claude/Grok: What the model absorbed in training, plus web pages when it searches
Preachly: A catalogued index of theological scholarship, sermons and podcasts, searched every time you ask
Sources
ChatGPT/Claude/Grok: Sometimes cited, sometimes not.
Preachly: Every research answer is footnoted, and you can click through to the original
Your sermons
ChatGPT/Claude/Grok: Knows whatever you paste or upload into chat
Preachly: Includes a standing sermon library that organizes your preaching by passage, theme and year
Tradition
ChatGPT/Claude/Grok: A blend of everything it read in training
Preachly: Stays in the tradition you ask from, and tells you when it looked wider
Sermon outsourcing
ChatGPT/Claude/Grok: Will draft one on request
Preachly: Won’t write your sermon
Built by
ChatGPT/Claude/Grok: General-purpose technology companies
Preachly: Christian technologists and church leaders at Pneuma Labs