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Living archive
One shared place for the preached Word to remain discoverable.
What we're building
Sermons are scattered across YouTube, church websites, podcasts, and social media with no common structure or search layer. A believer looking for preaching on a specific passage has to check dozens of sources, sift through irrelevant results, and start again if they move on to another preacher or church. That is not a discovery problem — it is an organisation problem.
The goal of Sermon Registry is one structured home where any sermon can be found by scripture, church, preacher, denomination, topic, date, or language — and where the metadata makes it genuinely useful for study, not just discovery.
In practice
We add at least 3 verified churches per week, starting with the UK and expanding globally. Every church added opens the door to all its sermons.
Each sermon is enriched with scripture references, tags, takeaways, transcripts, and read-time estimates — turning raw media into a searchable, studyable record.
Many churches preach faithfully but never publish online. We help churches get their content to YouTube and into the directory, extending their reach beyond their walls.
We are building toward supporting sermons in multiple languages, making the archive accessible to believers well beyond English-speaking churches.
Every submission is reviewed before publication. A smaller, accurate archive is more useful than a large, unreliable one — we prioritise quality throughout.
From pulpit
to posterity.
How it works
A verified YouTube channel is linked to its church record when that church is already listed. A validated sermon can remain provisionally unlinked when the church is not yet present, so the relationship can be reviewed and backfilled later.
Church administrators can import their channel, and signed-in members can submit one public YouTube sermon URL from My Library. Both paths reuse the same checks, validation and one-time transcription pipeline.
We use AI to extract a clean transcript from the raw video captions, then enrich each sermon with scripture references, topical tags, categories, Bible characters, key takeaways, and read-time estimates — turning raw media into a structured, searchable record.