AI and preaching

Digital tools should help you see your preaching. Not replace it.

Dr. Christopher M. Daukas

I have preached for twenty five years, and I am not looking for something to do the work for me. Neither should you be. The hard work of prayer, study, and wrestling with the text is what the Spirit uses to form the preacher—not just the sermon.

So I built The Sermon Coach around a narrower question:

Could technology help preachers see what they actually wrote, without touching the work that formed them?

What it won’t do

What it does

It reads the sermon you already wrote.

  1. 01
    It evaluates your sermon against the standard.

    Eleven criteria built from established convictions about faithful, clear, Christ-centered preaching.

  2. 02
    It shows its work.

    See the sentences in your own manuscript that led to each observation, so you can examine the feedback rather than simply take its word for it.

  3. 03
    It tells you what is working.

    Most preachers hear what needs fixing. Sermon Coach also shows you what you’re already doing well.

  4. 04
    It prioritizes your growth.

    Your growth areas are put in order, so you know which change is worth making first.

  5. 05
    It tracks your development.

    Keep your evaluations together and see what your preaching is doing over months—not just on one Sunday.

What I believe

Never let a tool become a replacement for the Holy Spirit.

You don’t have to agree with every suggestion or observation.

The evaluation is an assessment, not a verdict. Read it, consider the evidence, keep what is useful, and set aside what isn’t. You know the text, your people, and what that Sunday called for. Sermon Coach doesn’t.

I tested Sermon Coach on my own preaching first.

I ran my own sermons through it before I showed it to anyone. More than once, it surfaced something I had missed—and the moment I saw the evidence in my own manuscript, I knew it was right.

That’s when I knew this could help other preachers too.

The sermon is still yours.

You study the text. You know your people. You stand in the pulpit. Sermon Coach simply gives you another set of eyes before—or after—you preach.

Walk into Sunday knowing it’s ready.