Preach better sermons. Become a better preacher.Build a healthier church.
The Sermon Coach reads the sermons you actually write and shows you what is working, what needs attention, and where to focus before you preach on Sunday.
Do that week after week and the patterns become visible: what you keep doing well, what keeps slipping, and what to work on next to keep growing as a preacher.
Evaluate your first sermon freeHow do you know where you need to grow
as a preacher?
You rarely get useful feedback.
People may encourage you after you preach. But few can consistently show you what worked, what didn't, and what to work on next.
Every sermon starts over.
You may sense something worked, or didn't, but without consistent feedback, it's hard to know why, what to change, or whether it's becoming a pattern.
Encouragement gets you through a sermon.Clear feedback helps you grow from it.
That's the gap Sermon Coach was built to fill.
The Sermon Coach in Action.
The same Hebrews 3:1–6 sermon is shown at two stages: the Sketch before preaching and the evaluation after. The Sketch caught the gospel turn while it was still in tension. The evaluation found that the turn had been resolved.
Check your sermon's direction and structure before the manuscript is finished.
Read the sample sketch→Every sermon is measured against the same standard.
The Sermon Coach Expositional Framework™
Eleven questions. Four areas. One consistent framework for every sermon.
Does the sermon say what the text actually says?
Does the sermon make the truth clear and memorable?
Does the sermon reach the real people in the room?
Does this build up the church as the people of God under the Word?
Bryan Chapell · Tim Keller · John Piper · Haddon Robinson · The Simeon Trust · 9Marks
The Sermon Coach is not affiliated with or endorsed by these individuals or organizations. The Framework is our synthesis of principles rooted in their approaches to faithful preaching.
See all 11 questions and where each comes from →“Thank you for the work you put into Sermon Coach. I use it every week. I have been able to put the feedback into practice and I notice the difference already. I can’t wait to share this tool with others.”
Preachers are formed by other preachers. This gives you something concrete to hand them.
An associate who preaches once a month. A church planter you are coaching. The men in your Tuesday morning lab. Give one of them a seat and he submits his own sermons, keeps his own library, and reads his own coaching.
What he reads is a debrief, not a score. The number stays with you until you decide to release it.
The strengths that repeat and the gaps that keep returning only show up across sermons, in your library and in his. His seat keeps every sermon he submits, so what you read after six months is a line of development rather than six unrelated critiques.
Seminaries, cohorts, and training labs read every preacher against the same framework, with Classroom and Preaching Lab seats set up before the term starts.
See seats and pricing →Digital tools should help you see your preaching. Not replace it.
The hard work of prayer and study and wrestling with the text is what the Spirit uses to form the preacher, not just the sermon. So The Sermon Coach was built around a narrower question: could technology help preachers see what they actually wrote, without touching any of the work that formed them?
- It will not write your sermon, and it will not study the passage for you.
- It will not tell you what God is saying. It does not know, and neither does anything else you can buy.
- It will not replace your judgment about the people who will be sitting in front of you on Sunday. It has never met them.
- It will not tell you whether you were faithful. That is not something software can measure, and anything that claims otherwise is selling you something.
Your study, your writing, your preaching, your judgment about your people, and the Spirit’s work in all of it stay yours. The evaluation is an assessment rather than a verdict, and one step in the development system rather than the destination.
Read the full position →What pastors are saying.
“It takes a lot of effort and knowledge to give really specific feedback. That is where The Sermon Coach comes in — it is like having the best preachers listening to your sermon and taking the time to give specific feedback from their expert perspective.”
“The Sermon Coach has been an incredibly valuable tool for my growth as a preacher. It has helped me identify communication patterns, address blind spots, and take practical steps toward becoming a more effective communicator of God’s Word.”
“Being able to incorporate theologically rich and pastorally practical feedback from a consistently applied analytical tool into the sermon before it is ever delivered is a game-changer for our entire pastoral team.”
Built by a preacher. Tested in the pulpit.
The Sermon Coach was built by Dr. Christopher M. Daukas, a former church planter in Phoenix, Arizona, with 25 years of pastoral ministry experience and 14 years as a Lead Pastor. Today, Chris serves as EVP of Global Training Network, where he equips and encourages indigenous pastors in the Majority World.
The framework is the same one Chris uses on his own sermons. Before asking other preachers to trust it, he let Sermon Coach find the soft spots in his own.
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