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The full apparatus of biblical scholarship,
organized for Sunday
Twenty-one analysis agents. Eighteen hermeneutical lenses. Twenty-one output formats. The Sermon Coach. Together they are one thing: your research assistant, doing the gathering, curating, and synthesizing, so the study, the voice, and the sermon stay yours.
Twenty-one research assistants, each reaching into the work of hundreds of biblical scholars, collecting, collating, curating, and synthesizing it into one complete study, in minutes.
Many texts, one message, new Synthesis weaves several of your studies into one preach-ready whole, or distills them into a tight summary.
From blank page to pulpit, a ten-stage coach that builds the sermon in your voice, never for you.
Illustrations written, not just suggested, biblical, historical, and contemporary, told in full and ready to preach.
Every preaching tool in one place, manuscript, outline, slides, and a speaker’s card, generated from your own work.
Preach from a tablet, distraction-free Podium mode: large, calm, and timed.
Grow in your study skills, learn exegesis, hermeneutics, and homiletics in our built-in learning library, for those new to interpretation and preaching, or still growing in the craft, foundations to advanced, included at no extra cost.
21 outputs · every translation · the full lectionary, for Sunday, the seminary, or the small group.
21 Analysis Agents
Each agent brings a distinct scholarly tradition to the text. A1 through A4 are active by default. The others are available as needed, for the passage, the audience, and the occasion.
Linguistic
For every key word: original term, transliteration, root, morphological parsing, semantic range, and contextual function. Significant translation differences noted. Hapax legomena and contested constructions flagged. Cites BDAG, HALOT, BDB, Louw-Nida, TDNT, Wallace.
Historical-Cultural
Date, authorship, audience, occasion. Social and cultural dynamics, honor-shame, patron-client, religious landscape. ANE parallels (OT) or Greco-Roman / Second Temple Jewish parallels (NT). Cites Keener, Witherington, Heiser, Wright, Walton.
Grammatical-Structural
Main clauses and subordinate relationships. Genre and interpretive implications. Literary structure: chiasm, inclusio, parallelism. Key grammatical features: verb tenses, participles, conditionals, imperatives, divine passives. Cites Wallace (GGBB), Runge.
Theological Synthesis
Synthesizes all prior analysis into: the author's original intent, primary theological themes, canonical and redemptive-historical significance, and hermeneutical principles for bridging the original meaning to today.
Early Church Fathers
Apostolic Fathers, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Patristic hermeneutical methods: Antiochene vs. Alexandrian schools. Rule of Faith alignment. Doctrinal contribution. Cites ANF, NPNF, ACCS (IVP), Thomas Oden.
Socio-Rhetorical
Full five-texture methodology (Robbins / Witherington): Inner texture, Intertexture, Social and Cultural texture, Ideological texture, Sacred texture. Full rhetorical analysis: species, units, appeals.
Charismatic / Pneumatological
Classical Pentecostal, Charismatic Renewal, and scholarly engagement. Gordon Fee, Sam Storms, Craig Keener, Peter Davids, Wayne Grudem, J. Rodman Williams, Richard Lovelace, Dennis Bennett, Terry Fullam, Amos Yong.
Reformed
Van Til, Berkhof, Hodge, Horton, Frame, Wainwright (Doxology), Vos, Kline, Moo, McGrath, Barth. Hermeneutical presuppositions, Doctrines of Grace, covenant theology, Reformed biblical theology.
Remonstrant / Arminian
Arminius, Wesley, Olson, Oden, Witherington, J. Rodman Williams. Prevenient grace, conditional perseverance, synergism. Honest engagement with the Calvinist-Arminian exegetical debate.
NT Use of the OT
Direct quotations, deliberate allusions, thematic echoes. MT vs. LXX variants. Hermeneutical methods: direct quotation, pesher, typology, midrash, narrative recapitulation. Beale & Carson, Hays, Fishbane.
Second Temple Judaism
Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus, Targumim, early rabbinic traditions. Jewish eschatological expectations. The world Jesus and Paul inhabited. Wright, Keener, Collins, Charlesworth.
Biblical Theology of Prayer
Canonical prayer arc from Abraham through Revelation. Vice-regency dimension. Psalter, Gethsemane, Pauline prayer theology, the incense-bowl imagery. Carson, Forsyth, Keller, Wink, Goldsworthy.
Missiology
Missio Dei, scope of redemption, cross-cultural witness, the sending community. Christopher Wright, David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin, Andrew Walls, Lamin Sanneh.
Feminist / Gender-Critical
Gender in the world of the text. Full spectrum from complementarian to post-Christian feminist. Cohick, Westfall, Fee, Trible, Schüssler Fiorenza, Schreiner. Even-handed scholarly presentation.
Jewish Interpretation
Talmudic, medieval (Rashi, Maimonides, Nachmanides), and modern Jewish scholarship. Jewish-Christian dialogue. Amy-Jill Levine, Levenson, Fishbane, Heschel. What Jewish reading reveals that Christian exegesis misses.
Global / Majority World
African (Bediako), Latin American (González), Asian, Pentecostal global, and post-colonial readings. What Majority World hermeneutics surfaces that Western exegesis has marginalized.
Ethics & Applied Theology
Individual and communal ethics. Social and political dimensions. Virtue ethics and character formation. Specific contemporary applications. Hays, O'Donovan, Hauerwas, Christopher Wright, Stassen.
Canonical-Narrative
Biblical theology depth: creation to new creation. Covenant structure as narrative backbone. Typological threads. Christological culmination. Goldsworthy, Beale, Schreiner, Dempster.
Practical Theology & Worship
Passage and corporate worship. Sacramental theology. Preaching and proclamation. Formative practices. Wainwright (Doxology), James K.A. Smith, Schmemann, Webber, Willard, Peterson.
Soul Care / Psychology
Inner life and attachment. Shame and honor. Grief and lament. Spiritual formation and psychological change. Curt Thompson, Benner, Allender, Longman, Peterson, Oden.
Sacramental Theology
Baptism, Eucharist, and the sacramental imagination across the traditions: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Reformed. Sign and reality, real presence, covenant signs. Schmemann, de Lubac, Wainwright, Hunsinger, Leithart.
18 Hermeneutical Lenses
L1 (Grammatical-Historical) is always active, the foundation. Every other lens layers additional perspective on top of that foundation. Mix and match for the passage.
Grammatical-Historicalalways on
Foundation, always active. Original language, authorial intent, historical context.
Cosmic Conflict & Vice-Regency
Powers, spiritual authority, regental prayer, the fall as cession, John's dethroning arc.
Biblical-Theological
Redemptive-historical arc: creation, fall, redemption, new creation.
Canonical
Whole-canon relationships, Rule of Faith, intertextual canonical shaping.
Christological / Christotelic
How the passage points toward, is fulfilled in, or is reframed by Christ.
Covenant Theology
Covenantal structure: Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, New Covenant.
New Creation
Eschatological renewal: cosmic, embodied, material dimensions of redemption.
Typological
Persons, events, institutions as divinely-intended prefigurations.
Narrative / Literary
Genre, literary artistry, rhetoric, plot, characterization.
Sociological
Honor-shame, patron-client, purity, kinship, power structures.
Intertextual
Quotations, allusions, echoes; relationships to precursor and successor texts.
Speech-Act Theory
Locution, illocution, perlocution: what the text does, not just what it says.
Christus Victor
The atonement as cosmic conquest, Christ defeating sin, death, and the powers.
Spiritual Formation
How the passage shapes the interior life: prayer, contemplation, virtue, and transformation.
Moral / Ethical
The moral sense of Scripture, what this passage demands ethically and morally.
Cultural Engagement
How the passage speaks to contemporary culture: pluralism, secularism, justice, post-Christian questions.
Reception History
How this passage has been read across church history, patristic, medieval, Reformation, and modern, and what that history of interpretation reveals.
Conditional Immortality / ECT
Final human destiny and the nature of the soul: eternal conscious torment and conditional immortality presented faithfully and at their strongest, side by side, across the patristic, Reformation, and modern spectrum.
SynthesisNew
Some messages live in one passage; others gather a theme from across Scripture. Synthesis takes two or more studies you have already run and brings them together into one. The Pastor’s Research Assistant finds the unifying thread, weaves the exegesis into a single coherent study, and resolves the overlap, so several separate analyses become one foundation you can actually preach from.
Combine them into a unified study and carry it straight into the Sermon Coach, or condense them into one tight summary. Either way the full depth of every study is preserved; only the work of holding them in separate places is gone.
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Run your studies
Work through your passages or subjects in the Study, exactly as you do now.
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Select two or more
Open Synthesis and choose the studies you want to bring together.
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Combine or summarize
Weave them into one unified study, or distill them into a single readable summary.
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Open in the Sermon Coach
Take the combined study straight into the Coach and build one message from many texts.
The Sermon Coach
Ten stages. Collaborative. Your voice throughout. The sermon that emerges is yours, grounded in exegetical depth you couldn't have accessed alone.
The Sermon Builder
The sermon doesn’t end at a manuscript. The Sermon Builder is where you shape it, refine it, and prepare to preach it, a block editor with the full study still at your side. Nothing to copy, paste, or reformat: your message arrives already broken into the parts of a sermon, ready to work.
The structure stays visible while you work line by line, the research you’ve done stays one click away, and the tools you need on Sunday, outline, slides, speaker’s card, Podium, are generated from the very blocks you’re editing. Your voice runs through all of it.
Title
Faith That Moves Mountains
Big Idea
Faith fixed on God himself moves what we cannot.
Point One
The mountain is the invitation, not the obstacle.
Conclusion
So bring your mountain. Speak to it in His name.
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Open, don’t start over
Your finished sermon opens as editable blocks: Title, Big Idea, Introduction, each Point, and Conclusion.
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Shape it freely
Drag to reorder, rewrite in your own voice, split or merge, add or remove blocks as the message takes shape.
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Name what a block needs
Title a block “Illustration” or “Conclusion” and The Pastor’s Research Assistant writes it in full, yours to take, edit, or replace.
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Keep your study close
Your Notes, every past analysis, and a fresh whole-sermon review live in side drawers, a click away.
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Prepare to preach
Export to Word, PDF, or slides, or step into Podium mode and preach from a tablet.
Block scaffolding
Your sermon is broken into clean, movable blocks: Title, Big Idea, Introduction, each Point, and Conclusion. Drag to reorder them, rewrite any block in your own voice, add or remove blocks as the message takes shape. The structure stays visible while you work line by line.
The Pastor’s Research Assistant at your side
Name a block “Illustration” and The Pastor’s Research Assistant draws on the full breadth of Scripture, church history, and contemporary life to write complete, ready-to-preach illustrations. Name one “Conclusion” and it drafts ways to land the message. Everything it offers is yours to take, edit, or ignore.
Your research, in the room
Three drawers, always a click away: your saved Notes library, every past analysis you can read side-by-side and pull from, and an on-demand review that critiques the whole draft like a trusted colleague, all without leaving the editor.
Detailed outline
Generate a structured preaching outline from your blocks: main points, sub-points, and transitions, detailed enough to preach straight from, with The Pastor’s Research Assistant’s help shaping it.
Speaker’s Card
A single, at-a-glance pulpit card: title, Big Idea, each point with its key verses, the call to response, and the closing line. Built for a glance, not a read.
Slides & PowerPoint
Presentation slides generated straight from your blocks, formatted and ready to drop onto Sunday’s screen, editable in PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Podium mode
Turn your tablet or phone into the pulpit: scroll your outline or full manuscript, slide out the margin tab for the speaker’s notes you added, and track a running timer, in day or night mode.
Export anywhere
Word, PDF, and PowerPoint, cleanly formatted, with the Scripture you reference inserted in the translation you choose and properly attributed.
The Learning LibraryNew
Grow in your study skills by learning more about exegesis, hermeneutics, and homiletics with our built-in learning library, created for those new to interpretation and preaching, or still growing in these important skills. From foundations to advanced, with worked examples on real passages. You will find this a helpful resource in your work as a pastor, and it is included in your subscription at no additional cost.
Thirty-five lessons across three disciplines, each tiered from Foundations through Developing to Advanced. Every lesson is built to teach, not merely summarize: a worked example on a real passage, a key takeaway to carry away, and a short exercise to try on your own text this week.
Exegesis
Drawing the meaning out of the text the author actually wrote: observation, words, genre, context, and the careful use of commentaries.
Hermeneutics
Interpreting faithfully: the grammatical-historical method, bridging the gap to today, seeing Christ rightly, and avoiding the common pitfalls.
Homiletics
Turning study into a sermon: finding the Big Idea, structure, illustration and application, the narrative arc, series, and honest self-critique.