Sermon Builder — Ad Fontes

📖 Ad FontesSERMON BUILDER

Outline

Enter a passage and click Begin Outline to generate a Reformed expository skeleton — then edit every point freely.

Untitled Sermon

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This is scaffolding, not your sermon's shape. Let the text govern its form: rename points to assertions, not functions — “Joy is anchored in a hope outside your circumstances,” not “Explain the text.” Add the points this passage actually has; delete the rest.

✦ Suggestions Click an outline point to surface Reformed material show rejected

No suggestions yet. Load a passage and click a point in the outline.

✦ My Sources

⚙ Sermon Settings

Outline style

The skeleton is scaffolding, not your sermon's shape. Reshape it to what this text is doing — rename points to assertions, not functions.

Suggestion categories

Author quotes

Cross-references

Doctrinal points / catechism

Illustrative commentary

Application angles

Author era filter Your delivery rate (words per minute)

Most preachers run 110–150 wpm. Time yourself on a real manuscript once, then set this so the word budget matches your actual cadence. (Length is set in the toolbar; word goal = minutes × wpm.)

Show per-section word budgets & live pace

Count accepted quotes toward length (uncheck if you won't read them aloud in full)

Show doctrinal tags on outline points

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⤓ Export Sermon

Flesh out — fill mode

Compile my accepted sources — weave the quotes & verses I Inserted together with light connective prose

Auto-fill from the corpus — pull unused Reformed material toward the length goal (rough draft; not gated)

In auto-fill, also draft connective prose anchored to the text

Default compiles only what you've Accepted from the Suggestions tray — it never invents quotes or hand-writes the body. Auto-fill is an optional rough-draft shortcut. Either way the result is editable and undoable (↶).

Include full Scripture text block

Include outline summary

Append sources / bibliography

PDF preset

✏️ Edit before inserting

Could this be any text?

Read your point headings below without the verse. If they could be lifted onto a different passage unchanged, they're still the template wearing your words — go back and rebuild them around what is distinctive to this text.

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