For solo and bivocational pastors

Write Sunday's sermon in the hours you actually have.

An AI writing partner that drafts as much or as little as you want, and never rewrites your words unless you ask.

Sunday is coming. Start on it today.

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Free for 14 days. No card. Then $19 a month.

A pastor's outline in PastorPrep, tagged You wrote this, with the main idea The Father runs to both of his sons Four tests for the sentence The Father runs to both of his sons: three Yes and one Not yet
✓ Every verse checked · ✓ Never used to train AI · ✓ Bulletin and study guide included

The week before Sunday.

We asked pastors the hardest part of their week. Here's what they said.

“Finding enough time to put together and study my sermon for Sunday.”

A Pentecostal pastor

Give it the hour you have. You leave with a main idea and an outline, in your own words.

“I'm not sure where to start.”

An evangelist, before a first sermon

Start from the passage. It asks what a good colleague would, and helps you shape a beginning, middle and end.

“A memorable quote that people can grab a hold of… throughout the week.”

A nondenominational pastor

It tests your main idea until a tired listener could say it back on Tuesday.

The bulletin and the small-group study come from the same work.

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What it actually looks like.

Not a mockup. This is the app today, on a sermon from Luke 15:11-32.

The PastorPrep outline for The Father Runs on Luke 15:11-32, tagged You wrote this, with the main idea The Father runs to both of his sons above four sections in preaching order

Write the outline, or pick one.

Write your own, or choose from a few PastorPrep suggests and make it yours. Either way the tag says who wrote it, and your main idea sits above it, word for word.

A drafted section titled The father who ran, tagged PastorPrep's draft, edited by you, with buttons for drafting again, shortening, lengthening, sounding more like the pastor and cutting, and Luke 15:20 quoted from the King James Version with a checked verse badge

PastorPrep drafts from it.

Your heading stays. The tag says who wrote what and changes when you edit. Every verse is checked against your translation: 17 in this sermon.

Try it on this Sunday's passage.

Two quick questions and you're in. Free for 14 days, no card.

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Why it's better than a chatbot.

A general AI tool writes a sermon. PastorPrep helps you write yours.

It keeps your words.

Your main idea and outline stay word for word in every draft. A chatbot drifts from what you give it.

It sounds like you.

Share a few past sermons and the drafts follow your voice, not a generic AI tone.

It covers the whole week.

One sermon becomes Sunday's bulletin, Wednesday's study guide, and your pulpit notes.

Write your main idea and four tests come back in seconds. When the text doesn't support it, it says so. It never rewrites your sentence unless you ask.
“One thing I learned by accident with Chat GPT and had to put in its memory was not to write a sermon for me or change my [sermon] to the point the meaning changes.”
A bivocational pastor, on using ChatGPT

See how it compares to Pulpit AI, Sermonly, and ChatGPT

Not ready to sign up? Send us Sunday's passage.

Get an outline for this Sunday within 24 hours, free, whether or not you ever pay us. Judge the work, not the sales page.

“It was just right.”
On a free outline we sent

Start where you are.

Whether this is your first sermon or your thousandth, PastorPrep meets you where you are. You choose how much help you get.

Starting takes one screen. It asks for:

The passage

The text you're preaching. No passage yet? Tell it what's going on and it suggests a few.

Your take, if you have one

A sentence about what the passage is saying, or a few notes. Blank is fine.

Who's in the room

Who you're preaching to, how long you have, the service. Optional, and remembered for next week.

Then choose how much help you want: Help me build a sermon · Draft my sermon · I already have something written · Write it here from scratch.

Who writes what, and how it's labeled

Write it once. Use it all week.

Everything that usually eats your week starts from the sermon.

For the pews

Sunday's bulletin

Order of service, hymns, and your big idea, ready to print.

For you

A sermon review

Notes before Sunday on what's working and what to sharpen.

For small group

A study guide

Questions for your small group, with a leader's copy.

For the pulpit

Notes to preach from

Your own words in short lines for the pulpit.

For listeners

A fill-in handout

For listeners, with an answer key.

A study guide for Luke 15:11-32 with shaded leader notes, the big idea The Father runs to both of his sons, an icebreaker, and checked verse references
The study guide for your small group, with a leader's copy.
A half-fold bulletin for a sermon on Luke 15:11-32 with the order of service, a prayer, hymns, and announcements
Sunday's bulletin, from the same sermon.

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Sunday is coming either way.

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Why you can trust it.

You stay the author.

Every part is labeled with who wrote it, so your elders can see exactly what the AI did.

Scripture is never invented.

Verses come word for word from your translation. Anything that doesn't match is flagged, never guessed.

Your sermons stay yours.

Never used to train any AI. That's in our terms, and everything exports when you go.

A person answers.

Email hello@pastorprep.com and a real person writes back, not a bot.

“Everything is working great… I really appreciate all your work and quick responses. It's refreshing!”
A church that uses PastorPrep for its bulletin

Built for Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal, nondenominational, Pentecostal, and Reformed churches.

One price. No tiers. No surprises.

We built this for pastors, not for procurement departments.

One plan
$19
per month

or $190 a year, two months free

Everything is included:

  • Help at every step, from main idea to finished sermon
  • Every Bible reference checked against your translation
  • A sermon review, and slide text from your sermon
  • Bulletin from your sermon, or on its own
  • Study guide, pulpit notes, and a fill-in handout
  • Export anytime to PDF, Markdown, or text
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Your 14 free days start when you write something, not when you sign up. No card. Cancel in one click, and everything exports with you.

How PastorPrep compares to Pulpit AI, Sermonly, and ChatGPT
Pulpit AI
Sermonly
ChatGPT
PastorPrep
Sermon research & outlines
—
✓
✓
✓
Drafts in your voice
from recordings
—
—
trained on past sermons
Drafts from your own main idea and outline
(your headings kept, no points added)
—
—
if you ask; not enforced
✓
Labels what you wrote and what AI wrote
—
—
—
✓
Second reader for a sermon you wrote
chat with an upload
suggestions in its editor
✓
✓
Bible references verified
✓
✓
—
✓
Bulletin drafted with sermon
—
—
—
✓
Follows your order of service
—
—
—
✓
Hymns from your hymnal
—
—
—
✓
Repurposes finished sermons
(clips, devotionals, social)
✓
—
—
study guide & handouts; no clips
Price per month
$39 – $129
$19.99
$20
$19

Pulpit AI is great if you have a finished sermon and want to turn it into clips and social posts. Sermonly helps you research and draft. ChatGPT is a general-purpose tool. PastorPrep is the one built for your weekly Sunday workflow: from your own main idea to Sunday's bulletin, with every part labeled and every verse checked, for your tradition. All three do real work; we give credit where it is due.

The longer version, with what each one costs and where each is good: sermon prep tools compared.

Questions pastors ask.

If yours isn't here, email hello@pastorprep.com and a person answers.

What is PastorPrep?
PastorPrep is AI sermon prep and church bulletin software for solo, small-church, and bivocational pastors. Each week you choose how much it does: suggest outlines for you to write from, draft from your own main idea and outline, draft the whole sermon, or read back a sermon you wrote. Every Bible verse is checked against your translation, and if you share a few past sermons, its drafts sound like you. When the sermon is done, it drafts your bulletin from it: order of service, hymns, prayer, and announcements, ready to print. Free for 14 days, then $19 a month, and no card to start.
Can AI help write a sermon without replacing the pastor?
Yes, and you decide where the line is, one sermon at a time. Write your own main idea and outline, and PastorPrep drafts from them without changing a heading or adding a point. Write the whole manuscript yourself, and use PastorPrep as a second reader. If you want a full draft, "Draft my sermon" is one of the choices, named plainly, and everything it writes is labeled as PastorPrep's until you change it.
Does PastorPrep write the whole sermon?
Only when you choose that. "Draft my sermon" is one of four ways to start, and it says what it does: PastorPrep picks an outline and writes each section, labeled as its draft. You read it, change it, and make it yours. For a deacon filling in or a first-time preacher, that is a fine place to start. More on who writes the sermon.
I write my own sermons. Is there anything here for me?
Yes. Bring your manuscript as a Word, PDF, or text file, and every word stays as you wrote it. PastorPrep checks the verses, reads it back with notes and never edits it, and builds the bulletin, a study guide, and notes to preach from out of it.
Is this just ChatGPT in a fancy wrapper?
No. A general chat tool drifts from what you give it. PastorPrep holds to it: your main idea goes into every section word for word, your headings stay as you typed them, and a story you haven't written yet stays a marked space instead of an invented one. Every Bible reference is checked against your translation, it follows your tradition, and the bulletin comes from the finished sermon.
What about theological accuracy?
Every Bible reference is pulled from canonical text, word for word against your translation. When a reference does not match, PastorPrep flags it in the draft and will not show it as Scripture: it may be misnumbered, or from another translation, and you are told to check it before Sunday. It is never quietly fixed and never guessed at. Denominational presets keep theological vocabulary inside your tradition. That said: you are the theologian. PastorPrep drafts. You check. You preach.
Our church has an AI policy. Can our elders see what the AI wrote?
Yes. Every sermon gets a summary called "What you wrote, and what we suggested." It shows who wrote the main idea and the outline, and how many sections you wrote, PastorPrep drafted, or PastorPrep drafted and you edited. There are no percentages and no scores. You can also export a short AI-use statement to print or share.
Does PastorPrep make slides?
Not slide files, but it writes what goes on them. The Slides tab lays out what goes on the screen while you preach, in order: the title, each passage you read aloud with its checked verse text, each point, the main idea, and the step for the week. It's built from your sermon, so it changes when you edit. Copy one slide or all of them, or download them as text, and paste them into whatever your church uses. You can also export a fill-in handout for listeners with one word blanked per line and an answer key.
Will it work for my denomination?
Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal, nondenominational, Pentecostal, and Reformed traditions are supported today. Catholic, Orthodox, Mennonite, and Brethren come next: the bar for liturgical precision is higher there, and we'd rather do them right than fast. You choose your tradition in the first two minutes after signing up, and it shapes the vocabulary, the order of service, and the hymnal.
What does it cost, and can I cancel?
Free for 14 days, then $19 a month, or $190 a year. One price, no tiers. There is no card to start, so the trial cannot quietly turn into a charge. Cancel any time in one click in your account: no phone call, no retention specialist. Your sermons and bulletins export cleanly when you go.
Are my sermons private?
Yes. Always. We never use your sermons to train any model. They're stored encrypted and accessible only to you. We mean it: this is in our terms of service, not just our marketing.
Can you help with this week's sermon?
Yes, and it costs nothing. Send us the passage you are preaching, your main idea if you have one, and anything you have written so far, using the form on this page. We will send back an outline in your own voice within 24 hours, built on your sentence word for word when you give us one. There is no card, no account, and no obligation to ever pay us. PastorPrep drafts the outline, and Vivian reads every request herself: it is how we learn what pastors actually need before we build more of it.

Sunday is coming. Don't spend Saturday night on it.

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