Pulpit: Preaching Console

Pulpit is a preaching console: write the sermon, preach the sermon, and let everything else take care of itself. WRITE with a time budget. Every section carries a budget — four minutes for the opening, seven for the text. As you write, Pulpit reads your words at your own pace and tells you, quietly, whether they fit. You find out on Tuesday, not in the pulpit. Mark a key line and it becomes a slide, an outline point and a blank in the handout — one gesture, three uses. Scripture, illustration, application and transition are part styles, not formatting. Paste from Word, Logos or a notes app and it arrives as your text. PREACH with your pace in the corner of your eye — never a countdown in your face. The section you're in, how much of its time is left, and what the whole sermon is costing you so far. Full text, outline, or just the cues: the section name large, its key lines beneath. Flip mid-sermon. Close the iPad at the end and the run lands itself. Time on a dark screen never counts. SUNDAY BUILDS ITSELF. The lines you marked while writing become the deck — in your church's own ProPresenter look, or as PowerPoint and Keynote — the Word manuscript, the printed handout with an answer key, and a fill-in-the-blank notes page at a short link the congregation opens on their phones. TANDEM. Your other device follows the run: open Pulpit on your phone while the iPad preaches and it offers to follow along — the section, its time, the total and the cost, large, with Back, Pause and Next that move the run on the iPad. THE PLANNING ROOM. Twelve months of Sundays with the church year already in place — Advent, Lent, Easter, Pentecost. Plan a series in one sheet, see how the year leans, and open next Sunday from the Home screen. Your illustrations keep themselves in a vault and tell you when this congregation has already heard one. EVERY DEVICE YOU PREACH FROM. Written on the Mac, preached from the iPad, checked on the phone — one app, the same sermon, shaped for each screen. Sign in once and it follows you. Works offline; syncs when it can. FOR CHURCHES WITH A ROOM. On the church Wi-Fi, Pulpit follows ProPresenter and ProPresenter follows Pulpit: your section's slide comes up, the verse you tap goes on the screen, the stage display shows your time. Tap Draw and the iPad becomes a pen for the auditorium screen — circle the phrase in the verse and the whole room sees it, live. PLAINLY. Pulpit is invitation only, so every preacher gets a person, not a support queue — ask at preachingconsole.com. There is no advertising in Pulpit and never will be. Your sermons are never read, mined or shown to anyone. Export everything as Word, as a backup, or straight to your own Dropbox or Google Drive; delete your account and it all goes. Pulpit began as one preacher's console for one church's rig, and it has grown the way a sermon does: one thing at a time, each one preached from on a real Sunday before it reaches anyone else. If it didn't hold up at 9AM, it didn't ship. ProPresenter is a trademark of Renewed Vision. Google Drive is a trademark of Google Inc. Dropbox is a trademark of Dropbox, Inc. Pulpit is not affiliated with any of them.