Keep one research notebook for a whole book-of-the-Bible series
Create a single notebook per series, add your commentaries, lexicon notes and past outlines as sources, and come back to it each week to ask cited questions about the next passage.
Our rule: AI helps with study, research and admin. The pastor still studies, verifies and writes the sermon.
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Decide how far to trust AI in research
A pastors' thread on verifying AI claims, quotes and history before they reach the pulpit.
Source: Reddit r/pastors ↗Give an AI project your standing study notes for a series
Set up a project that holds your own notes, reading list and background research on one book, so each week's questions start from your earlier work instead of a blank chat. You still check every claim and write the sermon.
Source: Anthropic ↗Organize a sermon-series plan
Pastors on r/pastors discuss using AI to organize sermon-series ideas and where they draw the line.
Source: Reddit r/pastors ↗Give your AI assistant real lexicons through an MCP server
A developer built a free MCP server that lets Claude or ChatGPT pull full lexicon entries, original-language text and cross-references instead of guessing, with a built-in interpretive method. Check the cited entries yourself.
Source: Viz.Bible ↗The Daily 5
Five real ways churches are using AI, one tool, every weekday morning. Free.