KERYGMA PROQuestions preachers ask about KERYGMA PRO
This page is the practical one. Not the argument about whether a preacher ought to use software like this — that is treated at length on AI sermon preparation, and treated honestly. This is the other set of questions: what it costs, what it runs on, whether you can edit the draft, who can see your work, and what actually happens on a Thursday afternoon when you sit down with a text and open it.
KERYGMA PRO walks you through six stages of work on a passage — the passage, observation, interpretation, doctrine, application, composition — and then composes a full sermon in expository shape out of what you wrote at each one. Nothing else. If you want the long form of those stages, see how it works; for the discipline itself, apart from any software, start with how to prepare an expository sermon.
It is in a Founding Beta at the moment — free, limited spots, three guided sermon creations included. Where an answer below is still being settled, it says so plainly rather than promising you something.
What a week with it looks like
Nothing here asks you to abandon the way you already work. You bring the text you are preaching, and the app keeps it in front of you while it asks the next question in order.
- The passage. You choose it. It stays on the page the whole way through.
- Observation. What the text says — repeated words, contrasts, commands, promises — before you interpret anything.
- Interpretation. What it meant to the people who first heard it, and what the author was doing.
- Doctrine. The enduring truth, in your own words. If you cannot say it plainly, it is not ready to preach.
- Application. What this truth asks of your people, this week. You name it — you know your congregation; the app doesn't.
- Composition. A full draft in expository shape, built entirely out of stages one through five.
Your commentaries, your lexicons, and your own long habits of study all sit beside it, unchanged. The app is a place for that work to land, not a replacement for it.
Where it stops
The clearest way to describe a tool is to say where it stops, so here is where this one stops.
- It will not write the sermon for you. There is no path from a reference to a finished draft — the composition stage has nothing to compose with until you have worked the text.
- It will not hand you someone else's outline. You are not being served a stored sermon on Romans 8 that a hundred other men were also served.
- It will not tell you what the text means. The exegesis is yours to make and yours to defend.
- It will not name your application. It does not know the widow on the third row or what your church has been through this year.
Whether that leaves a preacher on the right side of the line is a real question, and it gets a real answer at AI sermon preparation.
Common questions
What does KERYGMA PRO cost?
Nothing at the moment. It is in a Founding Beta that is free to join, with a limited number of spots, and no paid tier or price has been announced. When there is something to say about pricing you will hear it plainly rather than discover it at a checkout screen.
What happens when I have used the three sermon creations?
The Founding Beta includes three guided sermon creations — enough to take real passages all the way through the six stages and hear whether the finished draft sounds like you. What comes after that has not been decided or announced yet, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. If you reach the end of the three and want to know where things stand, write support@kerygmapro.com and you will get a straight answer.
What devices and browsers does it run on, and can I use it offline?
It runs in a browser at kerygmapro.com/app on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, and iPad — anything with a browser and a keyboard will do. There is also a downloadable Windows desktop app if you would rather keep it out of a browser tab. It is built as a connected app, so plan on having a connection while you work; if offline study matters to your situation, say so at support@kerygmapro.com, because that is the kind of thing the beta exists to settle.
Does it work on any passage — narrative, poetry, prophecy, epistle?
You choose the text, whatever you are preaching, in whatever series or run through a book you are working. The six stages are the ordinary movements of expository work and they do not change with the genre. What changes is what you observe: a psalm asks different questions of you than Romans does, and those observations are yours to make.
Which Bible translation does it use?
The Scripture built into the app is public domain — the King James and the World English Bible — so the passage is in front of you at every stage without a licensing wall. Preach from the Bible you preach from, though. Because the draft is composed only from what you write about the text, your own wording and your own translation carry straight through into the sermon.
Can I edit the draft it composes?
Yes, and you should. The composition stage gives you a full sermon in expository shape, but the last pass has always been a preacher's work — cutting, reordering, finding the sentence that lands. No draft from any source belongs in the pulpit before you have gone through it line by line.
Can I export or print the sermon, and do I keep what I write?
Yes, and yes. You can copy the sermon, print it, or download it as a Word document — one sermon, or all of them at once — and your work saves to your own account as you go. Keep your own copy of anything you intend to preach, the way you would with any tool you did not write yourself.
Is my work private? Is it used to train anything?
Your work is private to your own account. Your sermons are not published, shown to other users, or handed to anyone else as material. Before you trust any tool with a year of your study it is fair to ask plain questions about how that study is handled — write support@kerygmapro.com and expect a specific answer rather than a slogan.
How long does a full six-stage pass take?
That depends almost entirely on you, because the app is only as fast as your study. A preacher who already has a page of notes on the passage moves through the stages quickly; a preacher starting cold on Thursday does not, and should not. The honest answer is that it takes about as long as thinking carefully about a text takes — the stages give that time somewhere to go instead of scattering it.
Does it replace my commentaries or my Greek and Hebrew tools?
No, and it assumes you are using them. Commentaries and lexicons do something the app deliberately does not do — tell you what the text means. Keep them open beside you and bring what you learn into the interpretation stage in your own words.
What tradition or denomination is it built for?
It follows the historic expository method — the old order of observing the text, interpreting it, stating the doctrine, and applying it — rather than any single denomination's distinctives. The theology is yours to supply. The doctrine stage asks you to state the enduring truth in your own words, so what comes out reflects the convictions you brought in.
Can I use it for a Bible study, a devotional, or a lesson instead of a sermon?
The stages are built for preaching, and the composition stage produces a sermon in expository shape — that is what it is for. But the work underneath is the same work any faithful teacher does with a passage, and men have carried that material into a midweek study or a lesson plan without much trouble. Just know you are adapting a sermon draft rather than being handed a study guide.
Does it write illustrations for me?
No. Borrowed feeling is the most obvious counterfeit in preaching, and your people can hear it — the illustration that lands is the one out of your own life, your own town, your own week. The app composes from what you wrote, so an illustration only reaches the draft if you put it there.
What if the draft is not usable?
Then look back at the stages, because the draft has nothing in it that you did not put there. A thin answer at observation or a vague sentence at the doctrine stage will show up as a thin sermon, every time, and the fix is upstream rather than in the composition. Say more at the stage that was thin, and if you are unsure how to rework it, support@kerygmapro.com is the place to ask.
Is it right for a preacher to use AI at all?
It depends entirely on which part of the work you hand over — asking and organizing is one thing, supplying your interpretation and your sentences is another. That question deserves more than two sentences, and it gets them at /ai-sermon-preparation.
How do I get help, or ask something that is not answered here?
Write support@kerygmapro.com. It is a small operation during the beta, so you are writing to people who can actually change the thing you are asking about. Questions about what the app should do next are as welcome as questions about what it does now.