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Sermon Companion

The AI research partner in your study

What it does

Sermon Companion is an AI-powered preparation wizard that helps pastors research, illustrate, and outline sermons from first idea to final draft. It searches the 26,000+ illustration library from IllustrateTheWord, surfaces scripture cross-references, and generates structured outlines — all filtered by your theological tradition across 17 denominations.

How it fits the platform

Sermon Companion is the pastoral on-ramp to the ChurchWiseAI ecosystem. Sermon themes created here flow directly into the Voice Agent's talking points and the Chatbot's FAQ knowledge base — so when a visitor calls or chats asking "what was Sunday's sermon about?", the AI already knows. It's also the direct revenue bridge between IllustrateTheWord (content discovery) and ChurchWiseAI (the AI platform).

Features

  • Illustration search across 26K+ examples
  • Scripture cross-reference assistant
  • Sermon outline generator
  • 17 theological tradition filters
  • PDF / Word / PowerPoint export
  • Personal sermon library
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The Burden

It's Thursday night. The sermon is half-built. The illustration you need exists somewhere — in a book you read three years ago, a story you heard once, a passage you can't quite place.

Every pastor knows this feeling. Most sermons are built in the margins of an already-full week.

Describe what you're preaching. Your AI surfaces the illustration, the cross-reference, and the outline — in your tradition — in seconds.

26,000+ illustrations. 17 theological traditions. One search.

  • Research that should take 20 minutes takes 2 hours — or gets skipped entirely.
  • The same three illustrations show up every year because they're the ones you remember.
  • A generic AI gives you generic answers. It doesn't know your tradition, your congregation, or your theological commitments.
Overwhelmed pastor
Relieved pastor smiling

Start with the Voice Agent & Chatbot

Sermon Companion is coming soon. In the meantime, the ChurchWiseAI Voice Agent and Chatbot are live today — the core engine that powers the entire platform.