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Sermons & Media
Every sermon, ready to hear again.
Upload Sunday's sermon, Wednesday's class or a gospel meeting, organize it into collections, and let AI write the transcript and summary. Members listen in the free app, visitors find it on your website, and the whole series can become a podcast.
- Audio uploads
- Collections
- Cover art
- Handouts & slides
- Video links
- Scheduled publishing
- AI transcripts
- AI summaries & outlines
- App & web player
- Website add-on
- Podcast add-on
01Upload
Upload
Add the audio, a cover image and any handouts. Paste a YouTube link if it was streamed.
02Prepare
Prepare
Let AI transcribe it and draft a summary, a description and an outline for you to review.
03Publish
Publish
Members hear it in the app, visitors on your website, and podcast listeners wherever they listen.
Upload & organize
A home for every lesson.
Sermons, Bible classes, gospel meetings and devotionals all live in one library, sorted into the collections your church already uses.
- Audio uploads
- Upload MP3, M4A, WAV and other audio files up to 200 MB, with a cover image.
- Handouts and slides
- Attach as many extra files as you need, like the outline handout or the slides.
- Collections
- Group sermons into series like "Romans" or "Wednesday nights", each with its own cover and description.
- Video links
- Link the YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook video, and we pull in the YouTube details for you.
- Scheduled publishing
- Set a publish date and a sermon appears right when you want it.
- Public, members or hidden
- Share a sermon with everyone, keep it for members, or hide it while you work on it.
Every plan includes 20 GB of storage. See pricing.
AI transcripts & summaries
From the pulpit to the page, in minutes.
Writing up every sermon takes hours nobody has. Let AI draft it, then read it over and save.
- Transcribe the audio
- Turn the sermon audio into a full transcript in the background while you work on something else.
- Names spelled right
- Tell it how to spell your church's name and your speakers' names, and the transcript follows.
- Or use YouTube captions
- Already streamed it on YouTube? Pull in the video's captions as the transcript instead.
- Summary, description, outline
- One click drafts each from the transcript, and you review and edit before anything is saved.
AI tools are pay per use, so you only pay for the sermons you run them on. See pricing.
Listening
For the shut-in, the traveler, and the night shift.
Members who missed Sunday catch up in the member app on the web or in the free mobile app, wherever they are.
- A player that keeps going
- Keep listening while you browse, skip back or ahead 10 seconds, and speed up to 1.75x.
- Find it fast
- Search by title or speaker, or browse a collection from start to finish.
- Read along
- The summary and outline sit right under the player, with the handouts to download.
- Watch the video
- One tap opens the sermon on YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook when you linked a video.
On your website Add-on
Let visitors hear you before they visit.
With a Lightpost website, every public sermon appears on your site the moment you publish it. No copying links, no second upload.
- Media pages
- A searchable sermon page and a page for each collection, in your website's design.
- Listen on the page
- Visitors play the audio right on your site, with the summary, outline and handouts.
- Featured sermon
- Feature a sermon on your home page so it's the first thing visitors can hear.
- Members-only stays put
- Sermons you keep for members never appear on the public site.
Websites & Blogs is an add-on. See pricing.
Podcasts Add-on
Turn a series into a podcast.
Link a collection to a podcast once. From then on, every sermon you add to that collection becomes a new episode, with nothing else to upload.
- Episodes on their own
- Add a sermon to the collection and the episode follows, with its title, summary, speaker and artwork.
- A podcast-ready feed
- An RSS feed with your show's artwork, category, author and the details podcast apps expect.
- We submit it for you
- Our team submits your podcast to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and more.
- A podcast page
- Each podcast gets its own page with a player and "Listen on" buttons for the major apps.
- Download counts
- See how many times each episode, and each podcast, has been downloaded.
- More than one podcast
- Run a podcast for Sunday sermons and another for a Bible class series.
Podcasts is an add-on. See pricing.
Mobile app
Last Sunday's sermon, in the free mobile app.
Members carry your whole library with them, from this week's lesson to a series from years ago.
- Listen to any sermon you've shared with members
- Search by title or speaker
- Browse collections and series
- Read the summary and outline
- Filter by speaker or language
- Download handouts and slides
Questions
Common questions about sermons & media.
Don't see yours? Ask us, or read the documentation.
Uploading, organizing and sharing sermons with members is included in every plan, with 20 GB of storage. Your Lightpost website and podcasts are add-ons, and the AI tools are pay per use.
Sermons are uploaded as audio. If you also record video, link it from YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook and members can open it with one tap.
Yes. Each sermon can be public, for members only, or hidden. Only public sermons appear on your Lightpost website.
Start a transcript from the sermon audio, or pull in the captions from its YouTube video. Once there's a transcript, one click drafts a summary, a description or an outline that you review before saving.
When you create a podcast, our team submits it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and other directories for you, and you see where it's listed in your admin.
No. Members listen in the member app and the mobile app either way. A Lightpost website adds public sermon pages for visitors.
Media is included
Let the word keep going out.
Sermons and media come with every Lightpost plan. Add a website and podcasts when you're ready to reach further.