Lectio 365 vs SermonNotes

Build a daily prayer & devotional habit with Lectio 365. A completely free daily devotional app to help you pause in the presence of God - morning, midday and night. Jesus and his early followers stopped to pray three times a day. You can join in with this ancient rhythm and pray like Jesus did, with three short prayer times to slow down, find calm, meditate on scripture, and experience God’s presence. DEVELOP A DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS  Join hundreds of thousands of people across the globe and learn to meditate on the Bible and respond in prayer. Each morning the devotional follows the simple P.R.A.Y rhythm: * P:ause to be still * R:ejoice with a Psalm and reflect on Scripture * A:sk for God’s help * Y:ield to his will in your life At midday, pause to pray The Lord’s Prayer and consider a short reflection to connect with God. The prayer each day will be focused on compassion: getting your attention away from your own agenda to see the world from God’s perspective, interceding for his kingdom to come. End your day with peaceful Night Prayers that help you:  * Reflect on the day that has passed, relinquishing stress and control * Rejoice in God’s goodness, noticing his presence throughout the day * Repent and receive forgiveness for what has gone wrong * Rest in readiness for sleep LISTEN OR READ ON THE GO  You can choose to listen to the devotional being read, with or without music; you can also read it for yourself.  Download morning, noon and night prayers a week in advance to listen or read wherever you are and save  your favourite devotionals from the last 30 days to return to. TRY SOMETHING ANCIENT  Lectio 365 Morning Prayers are inspired by the ancient practice of ‘Lectio Divina’ (meaning ‘Divine Reading’), a way of meditating on the Bible that’s been used by Christians for centuries. 

Lectio 365 Midday Prayers are centred around The Lord’s Prayer. 
 Lectio 365 Night Prayers are inspired by the Ignatian practice of The Examen, which is a way to prayerfully reflect on your day. TOPICAL CONTENT, TIMELESS THEMES  * Pray about global issues and headlines (e.g. wars, natural disasters, areas of injustice) * Explore timeless Biblical themes (e.g. ‘The Names of God,’ or ‘The Teachings of Jesus’) * Prepare for Christmas, Easter and Pentecost and celebrate heroes of the faith on Feast Days FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CENTURIES OF CHRISTIANS…   Jesus and his disciples followed the Jewish tradition of praying three times a day. The early church continued this practice, uniting not simply around a weekly meeting but also around a daily rhythm of prayer. This practice  of returning to God over and over again throughout the day helped to launch the church all over the world. With Lectio 365, you become part of reviving this ancient rhythm of prayer in the modern church.   EXPERIENCE GOD’S PRESENCE  Time each day to remember who you really are, who God really is, and the story you are living in. Take your eyes off your circumstances and turn your attention to God: deliberately interrupting your ordinary, everyday life to remember who you’re living for. SHAPE YOUR LIFE  Learn about the six Christian practices at the heart of the 24-7 Prayer movement and be inspired to build  rhythms of:  * Prayer * Mission * Justice * Creativity * Hospitality * Learning JOIN THE 24-7 PRAYER MOVEMENT  24-7 Prayer started in 1999, when one simple student-led prayer vigil went viral, and groups all over the world  joined in to pray non-stop. Now, a quarter of a century later, 24-7 Prayer is an international, interdenominational prayer movement, still praying continuously in thousands of communities. 24-7 Prayer has helped individuals all over the world to encounter God in prayer rooms; now we want to help people develop a daily relationship with Jesus.  www.24-7prayer.com

A notebook built for the twenty minutes you actually have. SermonNotes is for people who want to keep what they hear on a Sunday — not a general-purpose notes app with a church-shaped folder in it, but something built around the way a sermon actually arrives: fast, out of order, and worth more later than it seems at the time. WRITE AT THE SPEED OF THE SERMON Notes are made of blocks — a heading, a point, a quote, a scripture, a question you want to ask someone afterwards. Tap once to add one, and keep going. Nothing to format, nothing to fight, no cursor jumping to the wrong place as the preacher moves on. SCRIPTURE, RIGHT IN YOUR NOTES Choose the book, the chapter and the verses, and the passage is placed in your note, numbered and in full. Or open the Bible reader, find the chapter the preacher is in, and tap the verses you want to keep. Choose from several translations, including the ESV and the NIV. The passage stays in your note afterwards, so it's still there when you read it back on a train with no signal. EVERY SERMON YOU'VE HEARD, STILL FINDABLE Notes carry the date, the speaker and the series, so a year of Sundays is a list you can actually navigate rather than a pile. Search runs across all of it — the words in the sermon, the passage it was on, the person who preached it. The note you half-remember from March is one search away. THE THREADS THROUGH EVERY SERMON Themes gathers the ideas that keep coming back across your notes — grace, prayer, the Church, whatever your preachers keep returning to — and shows you every note on each one. Tap your weekly streak for your Journey: the parts of the Bible you have sat under, and the notes that marked a turn. A quiet record of attention, not a scoreboard. SUNDAY'S NOTES, ON A WEDNESDAY Each day, SermonNotes builds a short devotion out of something you already wrote — the passage, the line you thought worth writing down, and a question to sit with. Study turns a note into questions for a small group or for your own reading in the week. Nothing generic, nothing generated: your own notes, handed back to you at a distance where they read differently. SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY SIT WITH Notes are private by default. Share one and it goes to the friends you have accepted in the app — not to the public, not to strangers, not to an algorithm. They can leave a comment or an Amen, and ask for a copy if the notes would help them. You can stop sharing at any time. BUILT FOR SUNDAY MORNING - Home Screen widgets: today's devotion, and one tap to a new note - Share text in from anywhere — a verse, a quote, an outline - Bring your old notes across from Apple Notes, Notion, Evernote, Obsidian, Bear, Drafts or Google Keep - Export any note, or your whole library, as PDF, Markdown or plain text MADE TO BE READABLE Set the reading text size independently of the rest of iOS, choose a warmer page tint if a white screen is hard going, and switch on a dyslexia-friendly typeface for the reading column. Dark Mode throughout. FREE, AND PRIVATE SermonNotes is free. There are no adverts, no subscriptions and no tracking of any kind. Nothing about what you write or read is measured. Your notes are never sold and are never used to train AI. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. —— Scripture is provided through the YouVersion Platform and, for the ESV, the ESV API from Crossway. Each translation remains the copyright of its publisher, and the publisher's notice is shown alongside the text. Questions, or something that looks wrong? Write to hello@sermonnotes.uk — a real person reads it.