Sermon Library

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Turn every sermon into a resource people can find, explore and use

Your church puts hours of preparation into every sermon. But once Sunday is over, that teaching often ends up as a video in an archive where very few people ever find it again.

Seedcast Sermon Library turns your weekly preaching into a permanent, searchable teaching library.

Every sermon gets its own page where people can watch the video, listen to the audio, read the transcript, explore an article, work through a Bible study, download resources and see the Scriptures connected to the message.

Visitors can explore your teaching by Scripture, series, speaker and topic. Someone studying Ephesians can find sermons your church has preached from Ephesians. Someone exploring prayer or marriage can browse messages on that subject. Someone considering a visit can read what your pastors actually teach instead of judging the church from a homepage and a few video thumbnails.

Written sermon content is also available to search engines and AI assistants, helping the teaching your church already produces become discoverable beyond Sunday morning.

Everything below is included in the free plugin. Sermon Library AI is an optional paid add-on described at the end.

One sermon becomes many ways to engage

A sermon can include video, audio, transcript, article, Bible study, sermon notes, the questions it answers, Scripture references, speaker and series information, and downloadable PDFs.

Everything stays connected to the original sermon instead of being scattered across separate posts and pages.

A visitor may read instead of watching a 45-minute video. A member who missed Sunday may listen later. Someone studying a passage may find the sermon through Scripture. Someone who arrived with a question may find it answered near the top of the page. A small group may use the Bible study during the week.

Build a real library, not just a video archive

Scripture. Every book, chapter and passage gets its own page. Overlapping passages are understood intelligently, so a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-20 can be found by someone looking at Ephesians 6:15.

Topics. Organize teaching around subjects people actually want to explore, with a limit of three per sermon so a topic page stays a real way in rather than a list of everything.

Series. Give every series its own artwork, description, date range and archive.

Speakers. Create speaker profiles with a photo, biography, links and every sermon they have preached.

Together, these turn years of Sunday messages into an interconnected body of teaching rather than a long list of recordings.

Every passage becomes a page worth landing on

A verse page listing a single sermon is a dead end for whoever found it.

Sermon Library builds each passage page out. The sermons on that passage come first, then the articles written from them, then the rest of your teaching in that book. Someone who arrives looking for Ephesians 6:15 finds the message on that verse and a way into everything else your church has preached from Ephesians.

Books and chapters are real pages too. One address gathers every sermon you have preached from Romans, and another gathers Romans 8, so the connections between years of Sunday messages are something a visitor can follow rather than something only you can see.

Each sermon in the list also shows which passages in that book it actually touches, so a reader can tell at a glance which message is about the verse they came for.

Passages in books your church has barely preached are kept out of search results on their own, and come back on their own once there is enough teaching to make the page worth reading. Nothing to configure, and nothing to remember to undo later.

Help people discover what your church actually teaches

Many sermon archives give search engines little more than a title and embedded video.

Sermon Library makes the underlying teaching available as indexable written content and adds structured information about sermons, speakers, audio, video and Scripture. That gives Google, other search engines and AI assistants more context for understanding what your church teaches.

Someone may discover your church while searching for a Bible passage, theological question, topic or sermon article. They did not have to be searching for your church to find something your church taught.

Keep useful sermon content alive

Use [scsl_content] to display sermon articles and Bible studies anywhere on your site as a list, grid or slider. Each item opens the original sermon directly to that content, so nothing is duplicated at a second URL.

A message preached two years ago can continue helping someone today.

See how complete every sermon and your entire library are

Sermon libraries develop gaps. One sermon is missing a transcript. Another has no Scripture reference. Another is missing artwork, notes or written content.

Every sermon receives a completeness score, showing how fully its page has been built out and exactly what could be improved.

Sermon Library also calculates an overall completeness score for your entire library, so you can see how consistently your church is building useful sermon records across everything you have published.

The Completeness Report shows:

A score for every sermon
An overall library score
Which sermons need attention
Exactly what is missing from each sermon
What is missing most often across the library
Separate sermon-detail and written-content scores
A week-by-week completeness record

The score uses only the content your church has chosen to publish. If you do not use Bible studies, missing Bible studies will not lower your score.

Instead of wondering where your sermon library needs work, you can see where it stands and what to improve next.

Already using another sermon plugin?

Sermon Library imports from Sermon Manager, Sermon Works, Mattytap Sermons and Series Engine.

For supported WordPress plugins, the importer reads sermon data already on your site, shows you what it found and lets you review it before anything is written. Original plugin data is left untouched. It can also identify duplicate speaker names and help you consolidate them during migration.

Series Engine imports from CSV with a review and mapping step before anything is created.

Audio Feed is built in

Sermon Library creates an iTunes-compatible RSS feed for Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms. Create a feed for the whole church or filtered feeds for a series, speaker or topic.

Designed to work with your church website

Works with any theme and inherits site fonts and colors
Tested with Elementor and Divi
Theme-overridable templates
Optional plugin CSS
Four appearance presets
Visual shortcode generator
Shared church details for service times and contact information

Shortcodes

[scsl_sermon_list] sermons with filters
[scsl_series_grid] series
[scsl_speaker_grid] speakers
[scsl_latest] latest sermon
[scsl_content] articles or studies
[scsl_topic_list] topics
[scsl_scripture_list] Scripture index
[scsl_sermon_index] all sermons by year
[seedcast_church_details] shared church information

See it in action

And the core Sermon Library is free

Everything above is included in the free Sermon Library plugin.

Turn the recording into content automatically with Sermon Library AI

Sermon Library gives every sermon a place for a transcript, article, Bible study and the questions it answers. Sermon Library AI creates this content for you.

Upload the sermon recording you already made, and Seedcast processes what was actually preached and prepares the transcript, article, Bible study and questions inside the sermon.

Sermon Library AI can also write the short summary that sits at the top of a book or chapter page, describing what that group of sermons covers as a body of teaching rather than repeating any one of them.

Nothing publishes automatically. Generated content is staged for review so your church stays in control.

Instead of spending hours transcribing, summarizing and writing after every Sunday, your team can begin with the recording you already made, review the generated content and build a more complete sermon record.

Details and pricing: seedcast.ai

Your church is already creating the teaching. Seedcast helps make sure people can actually find, understand and use it.