Sanctumel Preaching

You write the message. The slides are already made.

Type "/" as you write: a section title cuts a slide, a verse comes in at its reference, a quote keeps its sermon and paragraph. Nothing to reformat on Saturday night.

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The sermon editortype "/" anywhere
There is a faith that waits to see, and a faith that sees first. This morning I would like us to look at the second.
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Insert a block
What the command producesright away, in the message
New slide
Faith hears before it sees

The four commands are the editor's own, with their original labels; the prophet quote only appears for Message churches. The verse is the King James, public domain. The quote is shown by its reference: we attribute no invented words to a real person.

The same text

The passage is the same in every language. So is the preparation.

Writing

Slide-making used to happen twice. It does not any more.

The message gets written in a word processor. Then, on Saturday night, somebody reopens everything to turn it into slides: copying titles, retyping verses, hunting for the quote in a PDF. The same work twice, and it is the second time that produces the mistakes.

A section title IS a slide
You cut your message while writing it. What you see as an outline, projection reads as a running order.
The verse comes in at its reference
Picked from the module's Bible, not copied. Text and reference stay tied together all the way to the wall.
The quote keeps its source
Sermon and paragraph number travel with it. A quote without a reference is no longer a quote.
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The Bible

Fifteen languages, and the verse arrives at its reference

A verse copied by hand eventually gets a word wrong, or a reference. And in many congregations people preach in one language and read in another: the preacher translates in his head while speaking, or gives up quoting the passage.

Fifteen versions in fifteen languages
From Lingala to Yoruba, by way of Russian and Swahili. The version offered by default is the one for your church's language, and you switch language without losing your page.
The verse is inserted, not retyped
Picked from the module's Bible, with its reference. Text and reference stay tied together all the way to the wall, and two languages remain possible on the slide.
And the corpus, for those who need it
Message churches find 1,222 full-text William Branham sermons in the same search, quotable to the paragraph.
Preaching from a tablet

Preach mode is built to be held in the hand

More and more preachers go up with a tablet. The PDF never caught up: you pinch to zoom, you lose your line, and the white background dazzles in a room dimmed for projection. Preach mode is designed for that screen, not adapted to it afterwards.

Text from 70 to 220 per cent
Two buttons, or the minus and plus keys. Set it once for your eyes and the distance to the lectern, and the screen keeps your setting for next time.
Dark, light or sepia
Depending on the room: dark when the lights go down for projection, sepia under a spotlight, light in daylight. The background is remembered too.
One part at a time, without hunting
Full screen, the title large, verses and quotes underneath. A "part 3 of 7" marker, a row of dots to jump, and the arrow keys if the tablet has a keyboard case.

What Preaching does, and what we will not do.

On a subject like this, better to be clear straight away.

What Preaching does
  • The block editor, where a section title becomes a slide with no second step
  • Verses and quotes inserted at their reference, and keeping it all the way to the screen
  • The Bible in fifteen languages, inserted at its reference - and the 1,222-sermon corpus for Message churches
  • Preach mode designed for the tablet, estimated length, PDF and PowerPoint export, and every preacher in their own space
What we will not do
  • Write your messages for you: there is no automatic sermon generation, and there will not be
  • Tell you what to preach: we carry the text and its references, never the doctrine
  • Publish what you prepare: a message belongs to its preacher, and it does not leave your church without you

Start with Sunday's message.

Create a subject, write two paragraphs, type "/" and insert your first verse. You will see the slide appear before you finish the sentence.

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