The Saturday-night problem
Every pastor knows the feeling: it’s late, the sermon isn’t coming, and Sunday is not going to move. Solo and bi-vocational pastors feel it most — the study time you planned got eaten by a hospital visit, a budget meeting, and a broken furnace at the church. You’re not short on faithfulness. You’re short on hours.
MinistryMind exists to give you a running start. Not a finished sermon to read off a screen — a well-organized draft, grounded in the passage you’re preaching, that turns a blank page into something you can edit, pray over, and make your own.
How the sermon generator works
You tell MinistryMind the essentials: a topic or theme, the Scripture references you want to preach, the occasion, your audience, and how long you have. Before it writes a word, it retrieves those passages from four public-domain Bible translations. Only then does it draft — so the outline is built on the text, not on a plausible guess.
What comes back is a structured outline: an introduction, main points that track the passage, optional illustrations, and concrete application. From there you refine. Ask for it shorter. Ask for more Scripture. Shift the tone more formal or more conversational. It’s a conversation, not a vending machine.
Sample draft excerpt — “The Good Shepherd” (John 10:1–18)
Big idea: The shepherd who knows His sheep by name lays down His life for them — and that changes how we follow.
Point 1 — The Shepherd calls His own by name (vv. 3–5). Jesus contrasts the true shepherd with the stranger the sheep will not follow. Application: knowing His voice is learned in daily nearness, not crisis.
Point 2 — The Shepherd lays down His life (vv. 11–15). The hired hand runs; the shepherd stays. Application: sacrificial love is the mark of true care, in the pulpit and in the pew.
Illustrative of the app’s output structure. Every draft is generated fresh for your inputs and meant to be reviewed and edited before you preach.
Who it’s for
- Solo & bi-vocational pastors Carrying the full teaching load with a fraction of the study time.
- Church planters Preaching weekly while building everything else at the same time.
- Interim & supply preachers Stepping into a text on short notice and needing a faithful starting point.
Pricing
Start free: 1 sermon + 1 devotional + 1 lesson every 30 days. When you’re ready for weekly use, MinistryMind Pro is $9.99/month for unlimited generation, billed through Apple. See full pricing →