Pulpit Archive has its own addressPulpit Archive now lives at ThePulpitArchive.com. The old address forwards there, so saved links still open; you’ll be asked to sign in once more. Invitations now come from Pulpit Archive’s own address, hello@thepulpitarchive.com, so they are less likely to land in spam.
Sunday’s sermon arrives on its ownPulpit Archive now watches your church’s YouTube channel and adds Sunday’s sermon by itself, usually within an hour or two of it going up and by Tuesday morning at the latest, under the preacher and series your church gave it. If the sermon isn’t posted on its own by Monday night, the service’s livestream is used. Add a sermon still works for anything else.
Set a goal with a coachAdding a goal is now a conversation with a goal coach. It asks one question at a time and writes what you say on a whiteboard until the real issue is clear, shows you moments from your own sermons, and writes the goal up when you agree. Saving reads your last four Sundays against it: for each, one moment that did it, one that missed, and one thing to try. Open the goal after a new Sunday to read that one too. Goals is now in the top bar.
Stories and illustrations, one line eachOn Sources, each story and illustration is now one line: its kind, a short title and how long it ran. “With the main point” marks one where the main point was said in it or just after, and “Came back to it” one the sermon referred to again later; each time plays. Those come first, then the longest. Press a line for its summary; past five, the rest fold. Illustrations now have titles and lengths, as stories have. Search and the tips on Patterns name each story by who it is about and each illustration by its title.
A story’s length is measured to its own last wordsA few stories and illustrations showed a length minutes too long, or no “Came back to it” where the sermon did come back, because a short phrase matched a shorter line elsewhere. Each is now placed where its own words are said.
Every sermon heard and read againEvery recorded sermon is now heard twice, word for word, as new ones are, and every sermon is read on the newest analysis. What this month added now shows on each one: where the main point comes back, when each part starts, loudness, illustrations, names of Jesus, and which repeated phrases are habits. Livestreams once kept whole are cut to the service, so countdowns no longer count in the minutes and stats. Notes and tags moved with them.Each sermon page names its version at its foot: Findings read with Analysis 2026.10.4
Spots to check moved to This weekThe few words the transcriber was unsure of are now asked on This week, after your circle and coach, for your newest sermon only. Each still plays a few seconds and corrects the transcript. They leave once answered, and “Not now” puts them off. The box above the transcript is gone, and only the sermon’s preacher is asked.
Names of Jesus, on Sources and PatternsA sermon’s Sources tab has a row for the names it calls Jesus by, from Nave’s Topical Bible: Savior, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, each as said. Press one to hear each time. A word like “Lord” counts only where the sentence means him, and the row says how many other times it meant the Father. Names are counted, never “he” or “him”. Patterns lists the names said in two sermons or more. The Bible figures row is now called People of the Bible. A sermon shows its names once it is read for them.
A spot’s word can be taken outWhere the transcript has a word that was never said, “No, it was…” now offers “Nothing was said”, which takes the word out. The word as written is kept, and “Yes” puts it back.
A Bible figure plays where the sermon named itA Bible figure named in the same words in a reading and again in the sermon now plays at the sermon’s moment, not the reading’s.
Themes across a preacher’s sermons, on PatternsEach sermon’s own theme words, as its reading wrote them, are grouped into the preacher’s short list of themes. Patterns shows a row per theme, a column per Sunday: a filled dot where it was a main theme, a ring where it was a lesser one. Press a theme for the sermons’ own words. The preacher and the church’s admins can move a phrase out with “Not this theme”, or rename a theme, and every change is kept on record. A preacher’s list starts at ten sermons.
Spots to check, above the transcriptWhere the transcriber was least sure of a word, a sermon’s preacher and the church’s admins see a few spots above the transcript, one at a time: a doubtful word, a “gonna” that may have been “going to”, or a pause where the room may have laughed. Listen to a few seconds and say what was said. An answer corrects the transcript, or adds the laugh to the room on Stats, and keeps what was written. Nothing waits on them. Sermons have them as they are heard again.
Where each part starts, and loudness across the sermon, on StatsUnder the Minutes bar, a strip shows the sermon’s parts in the order they were said: reading, exposition, application, stories, prayer. Press a part to hear where it starts. Voice draws the loudness every ten seconds as a line, with the loudest stretches numbered and the quietest lettered, each played from there. Both appear on each sermon as it is read again.
Illustrations, apart from storiesA sermon’s Sources tab has a row for its illustrations: a picture held up to help the room see the point, where a story is something that happens. Each is a comparison, a picture or a what-if, with what it showed, and plays where it was said. Patterns counts them by kind under the stories, each Sunday in its column. A sermon shows them once it is read again, and Search finds them with the stories.
Bible figures, and what was said around the sermon, on SourcesA sermon’s Sources tab has a new row, In the Bible, for each Bible figure the sermon names, apart from the people it quotes and names. A book the preacher recommended says so. The scripture and people of the reading, the announcements and communion show in their own rows, Before the sermon and After the sermon.
Voice, words and the room on StatsA sermon’s Stats tab now shows the voice: how far its loudness moved, and its pitch as a line across the sermon. It also shows the words: the fillers, where the transcript is word for word; the words said far more than in the preacher’s other sermons; the most-used words; and the theological terms. Every dot plays where the word was said. Where the room was listened for, it shows its laughter and applause, each with the words just before. From a preacher’s tenth sermon, the voice and the terms sit beside the preacher’s usual.
Exposition and application are counted apartThe Minutes bar on Stats shows exposition and application as two shares again, as each sermon was read, where before it gave their sum.
Bible figures on PatternsPeople on Patterns now lists the Bible figures named in two of a preacher’s sermons or more, Sunday by Sunday, apart from the people.
A repeated phrase shows the sentence it was said inOn a sermon’s Stats tab, a phrase said in a long passage of a manuscript now shows the sentence it was said in, not the whole passage.
A new Sunday’s video plays soonerOnce a new Sunday’s video is ready, its sermon page plays it within about a minute. Before, it could wait ten minutes or more.
Your own goals, read against each sermonAdd a goal in your own words and say what a Sunday that meets it would look like. It is read back to you plainly, tried on your last sermon, and you mark each moment until it reads you right. A sermon’s new Goals tab reads it against that sermon, This week shows what it found on Sunday, and each goal has a page with its checks Sunday by Sunday. Only you and the coaches you share with see your goals, and a coach can build one for you, which waits for your yes.
Patterns, a second tab on SermonsSermons now has two tabs, List and Patterns. From a preacher’s tenth sermon, Patterns lays their sermons side by side, Sunday by Sunday: the book each was preached from and how many of the 66 were cited, every story by its kind, the phrases said in at least a fifth of them, and who is quoted and named most. Every number opens the sermons behind it. In My sermons it counts your own; a church’s admins choose one preacher at a time. Below ten it shows the sermons so far.
Stories told beforePatterns now names a story told in two of a preacher’s sermons, read from the stories of each, with both tellings and their dates. The preacher, or a church’s admin, says whether it is the same story or not the same, and the answer is kept; one marked not the same folds away. The archive reads each new sermon’s stories against the earlier ones as it comes in.
Length and speed beside the preacher’s usualFrom a preacher’s tenth sermon here, a sermon’s Stats sets its minutes, or a manuscript’s words, and its words a minute while talking beside that preacher’s usual: the middle of their sermons. The ten counts that preacher’s own sermons, not the church’s.
Unknown, or a new person, for one block of the serviceIn Correct the timeline, each block’s speaker list now ends with Unknown, for a part spoken by nobody you know, and New person…, to add someone and give them just that block. A sermon’s own block always keeps a preacher.
The Timeline counts from the sermonThe Timeline under Stats now reads the same clock as the transcript: the sermon starts at 0:00, and what came before it reads with a minus, like −35:06. Correct the timeline and Split read it too; type a time before the sermon with a minus.
Transcripts that leave less outEach recording is now heard twice at once, the second time in different half-minute stretches. Where one hearing left out words the other has, such as part of a scripture reading or a quote, that place is heard a third time and the missing words go back in. The listening also runs on a faster computer. Sermons transcribed from now on get this.
D. L. Moody’s sermons, as the Tribune took them downA second public archive anyone signed in can open, beside Spurgeon’s: ten sermons D. L. Moody preached at the New York Hippodrome in February 1876, from the reports the New-York Tribune’s stenographers took down as he spoke. Each can be heard in a computer voice near his pitch, at the pace the Tribune measured: about 150 words a minute.Each sermon page names its version at its foot: Findings read with Analysis 2026.10.3
Correct the timeline shows who spoke in each blockA block spoken by someone not on your roster showed the first name on the roster instead. It now shows who it is, as the Timeline above it does.
Search shows when you said itSearch now opens its results with a mark for every sermon, oldest on the left, as tall as the moments it holds, so you see at once where a word gathers; press a mark to go to that sermon. Each moment comes back once, saying what it is and who it names. Press a time and the words light as they are said, with the next lines following; Open goes on in the sermon from that word. A passage like Nehemiah 5 finds that passage and the sermons preached on it, and a question offers Ask, filled in for you.
Someone else, when the archive named the wrong personOn a person in a sermon’s Sources, Not right? now offers Someone else…: type who it was, and choose from your church’s people, or anyone your sermons already name. Said more than once, choose all the times or just that one. Anything said more than once also has Not right? beside its name, to change or remove every time at once. Each change has Undo, and stays when the sermon is read again.
A page for anyone your sermons nameA person in a sermon’s Sources now says “Named in 6 sermons →” when other sermons name them too. It opens their page: every line that names them, under each sermon, newest first, with how many times and how often they were quoted. Each line plays from its time, and Open goes to it in the sermon. It works for people on your roster and for anyone else, like John Calvin or Martin Luther. On a line that names someone, Not right? now offers It’s a quote or Not a quote.
A person’s page, cleanerA person’s page now says their numbers in a line, and lists everything they did in the services in one place, grouped by Sunday: their sermons, which open, and every prayer, reading and announcement, which plays right there from its time. Choose a kind to see only that, and Show more for the rest.
Remove what the archive found that is not thereOn a sermon’s Applications and Sources, and in the transcript, point at a line and press Not right? at its end, beside Note. A verse can be changed, a person marked as quoted or referenced, and anything the archive found that is not in the sermon removed. It says Removed, with Undo, until you close it; then the foot of that list keeps it, with Put back. Nothing is deleted, and a removed finding stays removed when the sermon is read again.
Press a time to hear it, and press it again to pauseEvery time on a sermon page is now the thing you press, on the left of its line: on the Outline, Applications, Sources, Themes, Stats, Prep and Replies, and in the transcript. One press plays from there at once, the same press pauses, and the next goes on. A verse, a person or a book in Sources plays as its details open, and × closes them. Themes and repeated phrases have a bar across the sermon, and every dot on it plays. Search and a person’s page work the same way, and a moment linked from Coaching or This week plays as the sermon opens.
A note on any moment, or on words you selectWith a coach on a sermon, every line with a time has Note at its end, a theme and a repeated phrase have Note beside their name, and words you select in the transcript offer Note too. A note made from selected words keeps them.
Not right? in place of EditOn a verse or a person in Sources, Not right? opens the correction Edit opened: the passage and how it was used, or whether a person was quoted.
Only a livestream’s service is readA livestream’s countdown and the room talking after the service are now left out before a sermon is read, so it is ready sooner and its transcript holds only the service. The archive finds where the service starts and ends, and cuts only when it is sure, a little outside the service. When you add a sermon you can also give the times yourself, as YouTube shows them, like 11:40 and 1:25:40, and yours always win. Times on the page count from where the service starts, and Watch on YouTube opens at the same moment.
The transcript follows wherever the recording goesPressing a time in a sermon’s Timeline, going back ten seconds, or moving the slider now takes the transcript there too, as every other time does. A moment in a part folded away, like the announcements or the closing prayer, opens that part so its words are there to read.
Easier to tap on a phoneOn a phone, a time, a dot on a bar, Note and the × that closes a finding’s details now take a fingertip around them, and the chips in Sources are a little taller. Nothing looks different on a desktop.
Fewer doubled and missing words in transcriptsThe transcriber listens in half-minute stretches, and where two stretches met it could write a word twice (“ready to forgive. Forgive.”), add a stray one, or miss one. Each of those places is now heard again on its own and set right. Sermons transcribed from now on get this.
Notes on the moments of a sermon, between you and your coachWhile a sermon plays, press Note on the player, or N on a keyboard. It pauses and opens a note where the line being said began; press another word to move it. Every finding has Note beside Play from, and cards with no one moment, like Pronouns or a theme, have Note too. A note stays yours until you send your notes on that sermon together from Replies, with a line of your own if you like. Sent notes show in the transcript’s margin and over the recording, for the preacher and that coach only.
Replies lists a sermon’s notes in its orderOn a sermon’s Replies tab, Coaching now comes first: your notes not yet sent, then the notes sent on that sermon, about the whole sermon first and then each moment in the order it was said. Each time plays from there. Coaching shows notes sent together under their covering line, and This week opens them at the first note.
Wide gives the recording more roomOn a desktop, Wide on the corner of a sermon’s video folds the title to one line and gives the video and the transcript the wide column. Press it again to put it back. It is remembered on that device.
An Ask answer can go with your notesUnder an Ask answer, while you have notes on a sermon not yet sent, Add to my notes puts the answer with them, to go out together.
Every time you said a repeated phraseOn a sermon’s Stats tab, press a repeated phrase to see every time you said it, on a strip across the sermon and line by line, and play each one. Sermons read from now on list your habits, the phrases you say on other Sundays too, apart from the phrases of that sermon, and find them the same way every time.
Pauses are timed between your wordsOn a sermon’s Stats tab, a pause is now a gap of two seconds or more between two of your words, read from the time of every word. A stretch the transcript missed no longer reads as a long pause, and the silence while the room stands after you ask it to is left out. Press the longest pause to hear it.
An imagined story is called an imagined storyA story you introduce with “imagine” or “let’s say” is labelled Imagined story, where it read Hypothetical illustration.
Questions asked leaves out “right?” and “amen?”On a sermon’s Stats tab, Questions asked no longer counts a tag on the end of a statement, like “God loves you, right?” or “Amen?”. The count and the list under it are the questions you asked the room.
New sermons come with their videoA sermon you add now shows its video on its page as well, usually within an hour of the sermon itself. If the video is only a still picture, or does not line up with the audio, the sermon keeps to its audio.
Sermons and prep notes finish through a dropped connectionWhen the connection to the archive dropped or stalled for a moment, a sermon or prep notes being read could fail, and new requests could wait most of an hour. Now the reading goes on and its result is saved once the connection is back.
A stated main point opens where it was first saidOn the Outline tab, the time beside a main point the preacher stated now opens where it was first said, not where it was said again in the close.
Search plays a line where you are, and lists each moment oncePress ▶ on a line in Search to hear it there, without leaving your results; press it again to pause, or another line’s to move there. Open, beside it, goes to the sermon at that moment. Under Everything, a line that is also an application or a person named now shows once, as what it is.
A sermon from another archive wears its own nameOpened from another archive, a sermon shows its own church’s name, mark and color in the top bar, as does that church’s list of sermons. Nothing switches until you pick an archive in the switcher. A recorded video in a transcript is named Video rather than by an internal label.
On a phone, the top bar, the Old Testament grid and the Transcript tab fitOn a phone, a long archive name no longer runs into Send feedback. The Old Testament grid shows ten books to a row, so names and counts no longer overlap. On the Transcript tab, Sermon and Recording sit beside the heading, so the line under it reads in full.
Ask and Prep speak to a coach as a coachIn a shared archive, Ask says whose sermons it answers from rather than “your sermons”, and Prep opens “the notes” rather than “your notes”. The circle’s answers no longer assume a pronoun for the preacher.
A preacher’s page counts each sermon onceA sermon split around a reading is one row under Sermon, so its count matches the sermons preached, and lengths are rounded as the sermon page rounds them.
Sermon pages open soonerA sermon page asks the archive for what it needs at once rather than one thing after another, so the main point and the transcript show sooner. Every page’s top bar does the same.
How it works says what the archive does todayIt no longer promises patterns across your sermons, which aren’t built yet. It says which sermons are transcribed word for word, that a coach you share with reads your circle’s answers, and what you and your church’s admins can correct.
Every time counts from the start of the sermonA time on a coach’s note, in Search, in Ask and on This week now counts from the sermon’s first word, as the sermon page does, so a note that says 2:21 opens at 2:21. The transcript’s Whole service is now called Recording; it shows what came before the sermon at times with a minus, such as −12:40. Only the Timeline under Stats counts from the start of the recording, and it says so.
Watch the sermon beside its transcriptA sermon page plays the sermon’s video. On a computer it sits above the transcript, and every finding, word or time you press takes the video there, as it does the audio. Video, in the transcript’s head, hides it. On a phone, press Video on the player to watch.
Play buttons pause what they startedPress Play on a finding or a fast stretch, and the same button reads Pause while that moment plays. Press it again to go on. Play buttons look the same on every tab.
Fastest stretches fold under PacePace shows the line first. Show them, under it, opens the list of fastest stretches.
Transcripts keep your words as you said themNew sermons are transcribed word for word. An “um”, a “gonna” or a word said twice stays in, where before it was tidied away. Sermons already in the archive keep the transcripts they have.
Pace shows where you sped upOn a sermon’s Stats tab, Pace is now a line of your speed while talking, read from the time of every word, beside your usual for the sermon. The fastest stretches are numbered on it and listed below with their words. Press one to hear it and judge for yourself.
The transcript lights each word as it is saidAs a sermon plays, the word being said changes color, then fades as the next one lights. Press any word to play from there, or point at it to see its time.
The transcript opens on the sermonAnnouncements, prayers and the rest of the service fold to one line each and open in place. Whole service, at the top of the transcript, shows all of it.
Times on a sermon page count from the start of the sermonThe transcript, its player and the tabs read 0:00 where the sermon begins. In the whole-service view they count from the start of the recording.
A rail beside the transcript shows where you areIt marks each section of the outline and each finding, and a press or a drag on it moves the transcript there. The section you are reading stays at the top.
Findings are dots beside the transcriptThe colored underlines are gone. Point at a dot to see the words it came from, or press it to open the finding.
Copy or download a transcriptCopy the sermon, with or without its times, or download it as a text file, from the button at the top of the transcript.
Back 10 secondsA button beside Play steps back 10 seconds, at the top of the transcript and in the player on a phone.
Prep: your notes beside the sermonAdd the notes you prepared for a sermon, as a PDF, on its Prep tab. The archive reads them against what you preached: what was left out, and what was added, with where it was said. Only you and your coaches see them, and they open again as you uploaded them.
Fewer tabs on a sermonOutline, Applications, Themes, Sources and Stats. Outline opens with the main point and the argument, and Themes ends with the tone. After a small lock come the tabs only you and your coaches see: Replies holds your circle’s answers and your coaching threads. On a phone, Transcript ends the first five.
On a phone, a finding plays where you press itIt no longer opens the Transcript tab. Read, in the player at the bottom, opens the transcript at the word being heard.
Transcript paragraphs end where a sentence endsThey used to break mid-sentence after 150 words. A time now sits beside each paragraph, about every 20 seconds.
Sources fits on a phoneEach kind of finding sits above its list, so a long passage no longer runs off the edge of the screen.
Stats and Tone use the whole screen on a phoneEach name sits above its bars and sentences, which no longer squeeze into the right half.
This week shows last Sunday and nextIt opens on last Sunday's sermon and its main point, then what your Trusted Circle and coach said, then what you plan to preach next.
What's newThis page lists what has changed, newest first. Each change opens where it lives.
A shorter account menuHow it works, Who sees your sermons and About are now one row, About Pulpit Archive. Dark mode is a switch.
Pages about the archiveHow it works, Who sees your sermons and About say what Pulpit Archive is, who can see your sermons, and who makes it. They're linked at the foot of every page.
An activity logAn activity page lists each change to your sermons and who made it, one sentence each.
Send feedbackWrite to Andrew from any page with Send feedback at the top, and read his reply in the same place.
Andrew can see what you seeDuring the beta, Andrew can sign in as you to look at a problem the way you see it. Anything he changes shows in your activity log under his name.
CoachingInvite a coach to talk with you about your sermons. Either of you can start a thread, on the Coaching tab or from a sermon's Notes.
SharingShare the stats on all your sermons, or a list of them, with someone you choose. They can read but not change anything, and you can stop sharing at any time.
Preachers, for a church's adminsA strip of Sundays shows who preached each one, with each series as a band. A guest preacher can be named on a Sunday.
Names spelled right in new transcriptsEach new recording is transcribed knowing your church's name and the people on its roster, so their names come out spelled right more often.
A sermon begins with the preacher's setupIn new sermons, the setup (where the series has been and what today is about) counts as part of the sermon. The welcome before it does not.
Last week's clip isn't counted againWhen a recording opens with a clip of last week's sermon, that clip's verses and people are no longer counted as this week's.
Cancelling an invitation says what it endsThe question now says the person can no longer join your church. The email link itself keeps working, so it no longer claims the link stops.
My sermons opens firstYour own sermons, wherever you preached them, are where you land, and Search and Ask cover them all. A church's admins switch to the church's sermons from the name at the top left.
Members, for a church's adminsSettings opens with Members, where you invite people to your church's archive. An invitation opens on a page to set a password.
Ask in a public archiveAsk can answer from a public archive, such as Spurgeon's sermons, as well as from your own.
The roster moves to SettingsA church's list of people is in Settings, for its admins, instead of a tab of its own.
Preachers on the Sermons listA church's Sermons list names the preacher of each sermon, and can show one preacher's alone.
The beta opensEach sermon is transcribed and read, and what it holds (the Scripture, the stories, the outline, the stats) opens to the moment you said it. Search your sermons, and Ask questions answered only from them.Each sermon page names its version at its foot: Findings read with Analysis 2026.10
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