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SERMON CLIP MAKER

A sermon clip maker that hands back the whole week.

Extend the Sermon is a sermon clip maker for churches. Upload Sunday’s sermon or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link, and usually inside an hour you get 5 to 7 captioned vertical clips, cut from the strongest moments and reframed with your pastor centered. The clips arrive as part of more than 20 finished pieces from that one sermon, alongside 9 social graphics and 4 written pieces.

Everything we make is yours to post, send, and keep.

What you get from one sermon

A church week needs more than clips, so every run gives you three groups of finished pieces rather than raw material you still have to build with.
5 to 7 captioned vertical clips. The count moves with your recording. A clean shot of the pastor yields more usable moments than a single wide shot of the whole platform. Each clip is a self-contained thought, cut to land on its payoff line, captioned word for word, and framed vertical for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok. Every clip comes in three versions: with music, without music, and without captions.
9 social graphics. Quote and theme graphics in your church’s colors, or in whatever palette fits the sermon if you’d rather, sized for Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The quotes come straight out of the transcript, so a graphic never says something your pastor didn’t.
An Instagram carousel. Six or seven slides that follow one thought from the sermon, with the key verse quoted word for word. Redo any slide you don’t like, then download the set with its caption.
4 written pieces. A blog post, the weekly email, a discussion guide for small-group leaders, and a kids sheet for the ride home. One sermon, one story, all week.

How the clips get picked

Clip selection is the part that decides whether anything gets watched. A moment that landed in the room often falls flat in a feed, because the room had forty minutes of setup and a scroller has none.
So we read the transcript and look for thoughts that survive being lifted out: a claim stated and finished inside the clip, a first sentence strong enough to stop a thumb, an ending that resolves instead of trailing off. Then a review pass checks the finished render, not just the plan, and drops anything where the framing, the captions, or the ending came out wrong.
If you want the craft behind that, we wrote it up in what makes a sermon clip worth posting. The same rules apply whether a person or a tool is doing the cutting.

Sermon reels, shorts, and clips are the same job here

Reels, Shorts, TikToks, sermon shorts, sermon reels. Different platform names, one output: a vertical video under a minute with readable captions and the speaker centered.
Every clip comes back in that shape, so you post the same file to Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube without re-cropping or re-captioning per platform. Captions are burned in and timed to speech, because most people watch with the sound off.

When a clip misses, you fix it in place

Not every clip earns its spot. Audio quality, room noise, and how clean the delivery was that week all affect the count, which is why you get 5 to 7 captioned clips instead of a flat number. Some sermons give you 7 strong moments. Others give you 3, and that is the honest ceiling for that recording.
If a clip lands wrong, you are not stuck with it. Regenerate that piece for a different angle, or edit the caption and copy directly and move on. Nothing publishes on its own. You review every clip, graphic, and written piece and sign off before it reaches your platforms.

Getting your first sermon through

You need three things before your first run: the sermon itself (a file upload, or a YouTube or Vimeo link), your church name, and your brand basics, colors, logo, and font, for the brand kit. If you do not have the brand kit ready yet, you can still run your first sermon free and add it after.
Most of setup is the brand kit, and you only do it once. There is no setup call and no contract. You sign up, upload or paste a link, and your first sermon is free with no card required. After that, it is $97 a month for one sermon a week, and you can cancel anytime.

What it costs, and what it saves

$97 a month for one sermon a week. Cancel anytime. The first sermon is free and does not need a card.
Doing the same week by hand means scrubbing for moments, trimming and reframing each clip, fixing auto-captions on proper nouns and scripture references, then the graphics, the email, and the guide, every week, on work that rebuilds content you already have. We put the full breakdown in how long sermon clips actually take to make by hand.
An agency invoice or a freelance editor for the same week of work costs far more than $97 a month.

Who it's for

The person on staff who got handed Sunday’s sermon and told to do something with it. Usually not a designer, usually not a marketer either, usually wearing three to five other hats.
You don’t have to do it alone, either. Invite up to five people on staff, each with their own login, and they all work from the same kits on one plan.
You do not need editing software, a prompt to write, or a setup call. Paste a link, review what comes back, post what you like. Nothing publishes without you.

Clips from real runs

Three vertical clips from three different sermons, cut and captioned by the same pipeline your sermon would go through. Different churches, different preachers, different passages. Nothing staged and nothing touched up by hand afterward.

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Wedding Feast of the Lamb
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Does the King Even Care?
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Reverence for Christ in All of LifeGospel Hope Riverton

Guides for church teams

What makes a sermon clip worth posting

The stranger test, the hook, and the mistakes that quietly kill reach.

How to caption sermon clips so people actually read them

Clean source footage, two or three words a line, and the name check.

Sermon video editing for church staff

Aspect ratio, reframing, audio levels, cut points, and export settings.

Closed captioning for church services

Live captions, clip captions, and the sermon page transcript are three jobs.

How long sermon clips actually take by hand

Where the six hours go: scrubbing, trimming, captions, uploads.

Turn one sermon into a week of social media content

The full hand-built workflow, clips included, with the honest time cost.

What to post after Sunday

Where the Monday, Wednesday, and weekend clips fit in a six-day plan.

Keep reading

Turn one sermon into written content for your whole church

Extend the Sermon turns one sermon into a blog post, weekly email, discussion guide and kids sheet, drawn from what your pastor preached.

Turn a YouTube sermon into clips

If your sermons already live on YouTube, start with the link.

Sermon to social media content

The whole week, not just the clips.

Try it free

Your first sermon runs free, no card.

How to judge a sermon clip tool

The five questions worth asking before you pay for any of them.

How Extend the Sermon works

The three steps and the full piece-by-piece breakdown.

Send us one sermon. See the whole week.

Paste a YouTube link or upload the file. Usually inside an hour, you get more than 20 finished pieces from that one sermon. The first one is free, no card.

Get your free sermon →