Turn one sermon into written content for your whole church
Extend the Sermon turns one Sunday's message into more than 20 finished pieces, usually inside an hour: a blog post, a weekly email, a small-group discussion guide, a kids take-home sheet, 5 to 7 captioned vertical clips, 9 social graphics, social posts for Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, and an Instagram carousel, all drafted from the same transcript. Every written piece follows your church's voice and pulls scripture from what your pastor actually preached.
Everything we make is yours to post, send, and keep.
Monday morning, the church website still shows last week's post. The email that's supposed to land by nine isn't written yet. By Tuesday a small-group leader needs questions for Wednesday night, and at dinner a parent asks their kid what the sermon was about and gets a shrug.
The sermon wasn't the problem. Your pastor worked on it all week, it landed in the room, and then it stopped. A message that stops on Sunday is one most of your church never gets to touch again, and rebuilding it midweek falls to you.
You upload the file, or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link. More than 20 finished pieces come back, usually inside an hour, drafted from what your pastor already preached.
The blog post, drafted from Sunday's transcript
Whoever runs your church website gets a full write-up of Sunday's sermon, matched to your voice settings: tone, audience, denomination, and any custom instructions you've added. The scripture in it comes from the passages your pastor actually preached, so anyone reading it later is reading what the room heard.
If the sermon was preached in another language, the post comes back in that language. Edit it in place before it goes live, then send a read-only link to whoever signs off on the site.
The weekly email, in a shape that fits an inbox
Tuesday morning, someone opens your email on a phone in the parking lot before they walk in. What's waiting sounds like your church instead of a mail template, built from the same tone, audience, denomination and custom instructions you've set, with the scripture pulled from that Sunday's sermon.
Change a line in place if it needs a local reference, then copy it into whatever you send email through.
Discussion questions built from Sunday's passage
Wednesday night, a leader needs questions that point back to what the group actually heard, not a generic study plan. The guide starts with the passage preached that Sunday, then adds two cross-references from other passages for leader prep. It's written in your church's tone, so it reads like how your leaders already talk to their groups.
It comes back in whatever language the sermon was preached in. Share it as a link instead of printing a stack of copies before group.
Something for kids to bring to the dinner table
Kids heard their own lesson in their own room, and it rarely survives the ride home. The take-home sheet gives a parent somewhere to start. You choose whether it's written for parents, kids ministry teachers, or both, drafted in your church's tone, from the scripture everyone heard that week.
A kids ministry lead can edit it in place before it goes home in a bag or an email.
What else comes back, and how it goes out
Alongside the four written pieces, one sermon also gives you 5 to 7 captioned vertical clips and 9 social graphics, drawn from the same transcript, plus social posts for Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn and an Instagram carousel.
Every written piece can be edited in place and shared as a read-only link, so nobody starts from a blank doc. Copy it as rich text or plain text, or use Download everything and the blog post, email, discussion guide and kids sheet arrive as files in one zip.
By Wednesday the post is up, the email is out, your leaders have their questions, and a parent at dinner knows what to ask. That's one upload, usually inside an hour.
Extend the Sermon comes from Church Media Squad: more than 3,000 churches since 2017. It's $97 a month for one sermon a week, and everything it makes is yours to post, send and keep.
Start with last Sunday's sermon. The first one is free and there's no card. Because the only way to know whether the writing sounds like your church is to read it on your own sermon.
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From sermon to blog post for your church website
Explains how the blog post is drafted from your pastor's own sermon
A sermon discussion guide ready the same week
Explains how small-group questions are built from Sunday's passage
The weekly church email newsletter written from Sunday's sermon
Explains how the weekly email is written for your list
A kids sermon take-home sheet from Sunday's message
Explains how the take-home sheet is built for parents, children's ministry teachers, or both
Your sermon Instagram carousel ready to post
Explains how the Instagram carousel comes with every sermon
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.
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