Your shelf is full of commentaries.There has never been one on the sermon itself.
The Sermon Coach reads the sermon you actually wrote and measures it against the Sermon Coach Expositional Framework™ — eleven questions across four areas. Then it keeps going. Sketch before you write. Evaluate before you preach. Learn from the result. Over time, those sermons become a picture of how you are developing as a preacher.
Evaluate your first sermon freeYou want to grow as a preacher.
But who helps you see how?
Encouragement is not the same as feedback.
The people around you care about your preaching. But caring about your preaching and being able to evaluate it are two different things. Most pastors have people who encourage them. Far fewer have someone who can consistently tell them what is working, what is not, and what to work on next.
Without clear feedback, development stays difficult to see.
You may know a sermon felt stronger—or something didn't quite land. But without a consistent way to examine your preaching, it is hard to know why. And if you don't know what to work on, the next sermon starts with the same questions.
Encouragement gets you through a sermon. Clear feedback helps you grow from it.
The Sermon Coach Expositional Framework™
Eleven questions. Four areas. One standard for every sermon.
Does the sermon say what the text actually says?
- Textual fidelity & exegesis
- Christ-centered / redemptive arc
- Gospel clarity
Does the sermon make the truth clear and memorable?
- Fallen Condition Focus
- Structure
- Hard things handled
Does the sermon reach the real people in the room?
- Application to present audience
- Emotional arc & dynamics
- Pastoral specificity
Does this build up the church as the people of God under the Word?
- Ecclesial faithfulness
- Expository exultation
Bryan Chapell · Tim Keller · John Piper · Haddon Robinson · The Simeon Trust · 9Marks
These individuals and organizations are not affiliated with or endorsing The Sermon Coach. The Framework is our synthesis of principles rooted in their approaches to faithful preaching.
See all 11 questions and where each comes from →The Sermon Coach doesn’t replace the work.
It refines it.
Your study, your writing, your preaching, and the Spirit’s work in all of it stay yours. The Sermon Coach is the refinery in between.
Evaluation is one step in the development system, not the destination.
The Sermon Coach in Action.
The same Hebrews 3:1–6 sermon is shown at two stages: the Sketch before preaching and the evaluation after. The Sketch caught the gospel turn while it was still in tension. The evaluation found that the turn had been resolved.
The Sketch
A readiness read of the outline, before the manuscript is finished.
Read the sample sketch→The Evaluation
A full read of the finished sermon against the Sermon Coach Expositional Framework™, anchored in lines from the manuscript.
Read the sample evaluation→Feedback shows you what to work on. Patterns show you where to grow.
A single evaluation can show you what to work on this week. Over time, those evaluations reveal something larger: what consistently holds, what keeps slipping, and where your next development focus should be.
The goal is not a higher score. The goal is a better preacher.
- Textual fidelity & exegesis
- Gospel clarity
- Pastoral specificity
- Application to present audience
Your exposition holds. The application stays general — name the actual people in the room and what Monday looks like for them.
Patterns, not verdicts
The same strength shows up week after week. So does the same gap. One sermon can teach you something; a body of sermons shows you a pattern.
The same criterion, quoted twice
Your growth report sets an earlier sermon beside a later one and shows the lines from each that scored the same criterion, so you can read the change in your own words.
One next thing
Not eleven areas to fix. The report names the growth edge worth working on before the next sermon.
Feedback specific enough to help you grow.
“It takes a lot of effort and knowledge to give really specific feedback. That is where The Sermon Coach comes in — it is like having the best preachers listening to your sermon and taking the time to give specific feedback from their expert perspective.”
“The Sermon Coach has been an incredibly valuable tool for my growth as a preacher. It has helped me identify communication patterns, address blind spots, and take practical steps toward becoming a more effective communicator of God’s Word.”
“Being able to incorporate theologically rich and pastorally practical feedback from a consistently applied analytical tool into the sermon before it is ever delivered is a game-changer for our entire pastoral team.”
Built by a preacher. Tested in the pulpit.
The Sermon Coach was built by Dr. Christopher M. Daukas, a former church planter in Phoenix, Arizona, with 25 years of pastoral ministry experience and 14 years as a Lead Pastor. Today, Chris serves as EVP of Global Training Network, where he equips and encourages indigenous pastors in the Majority World.
The framework is the one Chris uses on his own work. It finds the soft spots in a sermon, and he let it find his before he showed it to anyone.
Read the story →AI should help you see your preaching. Not replace it.
The hard work of prayer and study and wrestling with the text is what the Spirit uses to form the preacher, not just the sermon. So The Sermon Coach was built around a narrower question: could technology help preachers see what they actually wrote, without touching any of the work that formed them?
- It will not write your sermon, and it will not study the passage for you.
- It will not tell you what God is saying. It does not know, and neither does anything else you can buy.
- It will not replace your judgment about the people who will be sitting in front of you on Sunday. It has never met them.
- It will not tell you whether you were faithful. That is not something software can measure, and anything that claims otherwise is selling you something.
Your study, your writing, your preaching, your judgment about your people, and the Spirit’s work in all of it stay yours. The evaluation is an assessment, not a verdict.
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