Sermon Writer · Mac, iPad, iPhone & web

Write it in cards. Preach it from anywhere.

A quiet place to build a sermon: a big idea, your points, and cards you can move around, with the whole Bible open beside you. When it’s ready, print your preaching notes, hand out fill-ins, or preach from your iPad.

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$12 a month or $99 a year for one pastor. Included for pastors on Vessel church plans.

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Rooted · week 2

Walk in Him

Colossians 2:6–7

Big ideaThe life you began with Christ grows the same way it started: by faith.

1. We are ROOTED in him

Scripture

“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.”

Colossians 2:6–7 (KJV)

Fill-in

Roots grow where nobody SEES.

2. We are BUILT UP in him

Fill-in

We grow TOGETHER, not alone.

Note

Story: the oak by the church parking lot.

On a fill-in card, words you type in CAPITALS become blanks on the handout, and so do capitals in a point’s title. Scripture prints as its reference with lines to write on, because it’s read aloud. Your own notes stay off the handout.

Writing

Built the way sermons are built.

  • Big idea, points, cards. Every sermon has one big idea and its points. Each point holds cards: Scripture, Quote, Sub-point or Note, each with its own tint.
  • Move things around. Drag cards and points into a new order. Bold, italics, underline and highlight are a selection away, and cards can hold pictures.
  • Series. Keep a series together on its own shelf, start a new sermon inside it, or move one in or out.
  • Search everything you’ve written. Titles, big ideas, every card, and passages: search “Matthew 5:12” and find the sermon you preached on Matthew 5:10–15.
  • Focus mode. Hide everything but the page. Escape brings it all back.
  • Archive, don’t lose. Old sermons go out of sight and stay there to come back to.

Bible study

The whole Bible, beside the page.

  • Two translations side by side: the Berean Standard Bible and the King James Version, stored on your device.
  • Cross-references that open straight to their text.
  • Greek and Hebrew. Every word of the original texts tagged, an interlinear, and a lexicon entry a tap away.
  • Word studies. Look up a word in English, Greek or Hebrew and see every place it appears.
  • Classic commentaries such as Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown and Adam Clarke, all public domain.
  • The ESV too, in Sermon Writer on the web.

Preaching

From the study to the pulpit.

What you check at the desk is what comes off the printer. And when you’d rather not print, your notes are a link away.

  • Preaching notesEverything as you wrote it, in one column at lectern size. Print it or save a PDF.
  • Fill-in handoutThe outline with the answers taken out, in one or two columns.
  • ProPresenter slidesTitle, points, scripture and fill-ins as a text file ProPresenter imports.
  • Word documentThe manuscript with real headings and formatting.
  • Share your preaching notes by linkTurn sharing on for a sermon and anyone with the link can read it on any device, without signing in. It always shows the sermon as it’s saved now. Turn it off and the link stops working at once.
  • On the service planAttach the link to the Message item of a Vessel Worship service, so the worship and production team can open it from the plan.
  • Fill-ins for the roomAt a church on Vessel, share your fill-in notes and they appear on a page the congregation can open on their phones.

Everywhere you write

Mac, iPad, iPhone and the web.

Write at the desk on your Mac, preach from your iPad, and check a point on your iPhone. Everything is kept with your account, and if the connection drops you can keep writing: changes wait on the device and sync when you’re back online.

For one pastor

$12 a month, or $99 a year.

Everything above, for a pastor writing on their own.

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For a church

Included with church plans.

Every paid Vessel church plan includes pastor seats: 1 on the plan for up to 300 people, 2 up to 1,000, 3 up to 2,500 and 5 on Unlimited. Extra seats are $8 a month.

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