Drop in whatever you have — a full manuscript, a working outline, sermon notes, the imagery
you’re planning to use, or just one section you want a second read on. Built for sermons,
and just as at home with a lesson, a talk, or an address — for any communicator who wants
to ponder their words and the implications of their thoughts. Sermon Lens is not
just for whole manuscripts, and shorter inputs are faster and cheaper. The default
frame is “how might this land with our community?” — across thirteen congregational lenses,
with calibrated doctrinal checks and the controlling imagery surfaced.
How it works: paste your sermon or upload a plain-text (.txt) file. Analyses run
roughly 1–4 minutes depending on length — the wait is the model thinking carefully
across all the lenses at once. Your inputs are saved to your account; you can re-open them or
delete them from the sidebar. Try one of the classic sermons below to see the tool in action before you spend your own coins on a sermon of your own.
See what Sermon Lens producesClick any to open a sample report — what the tool returns when you run that sermon. No coins, no waiting.
These are sample reports prepared as preview material so you can see the tool’s layout. Live analyses run on whatever you paste below. ESV via Crossway. Edwards via Project Gutenberg (public domain). Dates from a publicly posted Salem Baptist transcript. Keller transcription by Joshua Kim. Cruisers Enjoy the Ride preached by Darryl Handy and shared by the author. Caine and Chan transcripts adapted from publicly posted YouTube messages (Christine Caine and Francis Chan respectively). The underlying sermons remain the work of their authors.
Try a live demo — freeOne free run on a short demo sermon. See the full pipeline (submit → progress → result) without spending coins.
The free demo is being set up. Use the sample reports above to see what the tool produces.
Anything we should know — size, season, recent loss, demographic mix. Helps the lenses land more
specifically. Keep it brief.
Paste the whole sermon. Stage directions and section headers are fine — the model reads them too.
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How to save your sermon as plain text (.txt)
Microsoft Word — File → Save As → choose “Plain Text (.txt)” from the file-format menu. If Word asks about encoding, pick UTF-8 and tick “Insert line breaks”.
Apple Pages — File → Export To → Plain Text…
Google Docs — File → Download → Plain Text (.txt).
RTF (Rich Text) — open it in TextEdit (Mac) or Notepad (Windows), then File → Save As → choose .txt. Or open in Word/Pages first and follow the steps above.
PDF — PDFs of sermons usually come from a Word doc; if you have the original, export from there. If all you have is the PDF, open it, “Select All” (Cmd/Ctrl-A) → copy → paste directly into the box below.
Why plain text? It strips formatting, embedded images, and tracked changes so the analyzer reads only the sermon’s words — faster and more reliable than parsing a Word/PDF binary in the browser.
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Analysis depth
Deep analysis runs all thirteen lenses + imagery + movements + application + voice. The full report.
Tip: Fast scan auto-picks the 3 lenses most relevant to your “A word about your congregation” note above. Fill that in for sharper Fast-mode results.
Output language
Same insight, three voices
Each block is the same observation about the same sermon's controlling metaphor — rewritten at each register so you can hear the difference before you choose.
Popular
The whole sermon hangs on this picture: cruise control. The preacher uses it to explain rest, depending on God's strength instead of your own, and tired feet on the gas pedal. It lands warmly for anyone who's driven a long way. It might miss someone who doesn't have a car or rides the bus — one line acknowledging that opens it up for the whole room.
Pastoral
The controlling metaphor is cruise control as walking in the Spirit, and it carries the sermon's central pastoral move: the difference between an exhausting Christian life and a sustainable one is not effort but power-source. The picture lands warmly for any hearer who has driven cross-country, and especially well for the believer wrestling with persistent sin. The image quietly assumes a particular material reality — car ownership, road trips — so one framing line for the hearer without a car keeps the metaphor open.
Scholar / Academic
The cruise-control image functions as the sermon's controlling metaphor and carries its pneumatological argument: Spirit-empowered abiding as the alternative to a Pelagian self-reliance. The illustration is generative — it permits the preacher to thematize rest, dependence, and the topos of the exhausted disciple — though its class-coded material substrate (auto ownership, the long-distance road trip) means the rhetorical reach is uneven across the congregational spectrum without a brief homiletic adjustment.
The pre-baked sample reports above are written in the Pastoral register. Live runs will use whichever register you select here.
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