HUGE shout out to @Michael Byrd for his work behind the scenes this week updating the backend of the Preach360 app with some major "under the hood" improvements. Thanks, Mike! Here's what he improved for us. Check it out! - Duplicating a sermon now carries everything with it — the language, the coaching level, the audience research, the mentor circle, the highlights and the slide deck were all being dropped by the copy - Converting a legacy sermon to PDF no longer looks finished before it is, and a conversion that was abandoned halfway is now picked back up in the library instead of sitting there forever - Asking the AI to update a section of the manuscript now actually updates that section — it was always inserting a new one instead, because the lookup it used could never find anything - A generation that ends without producing any text puts back what was in the pane, rather than leaving it empty for the next autosave to save over - "Save and leave" now keeps you on the page when the save fails, instead of navigating away with your work unsaved - Copying and pasting inside the editor no longer creates duplicate blocks behind the scenes - Word export keeps multi-line code blocks, nested lists, numbered lists that start partway, and quotes with more than one paragraph; inline images and struck-through text now render properly instead of showing raw markdown - When the AI provider or one of its tools fails mid-chat, you now get the real explanation and a way forward instead of "An error occurred." - A search that begins with an asterisk no longer crashes the editor's find-and-replace - Dictation now gives up on a vendor that has gone quiet after 30 seconds rather than hanging - The dashboard opens faster — it was loading every column of every sermon just to draw the list - A retried payment webhook can no longer bring a cancelled subscription back to life, and the "new subscriber" notification fires exactly once - Subscription and support notification emails are now waited on, so a server that goes to sleep can't cut one short - Suspended accounts were still able to reach theological studies, resources and tutorials; every one of those doors now runs the same check as the rest of the app - Admin: the users, subscriptions and messages screens now page and search on the server — 25 users a page with role and subscriber filters, the subscription tables paging independently, and 50 message threads at a time, with the page and search kept in the address bar - Admin: an admin can no longer change their own role or status by accident - Under the hood: a full code review pass across the app — API routes now reject malformed requests properly, every route sends baseline security headers, lint and tests run on every pull request, around a thousand lines of dead code are gone, and the largest files have been split up

Just a heads-up that this public seminar/masterclass is going to preempt our weekly coaching next week. In future weeks, I hope to have seminars/masterclasses at a different time. If you have friends who are unfamiliar with Preach360 and the PPGR framework, this may be a great opportunity to invite them to something that could have a huge impact in their life and ministry. Here's the info: Every pastor I know preaches with a desire to see lives changed. Yet that desire is often unrealized. So, we read more commentaries, do deeper original language study, wake up earlier, and stay up later. The cycle can be so discouraging that burnout feels just one Sunday away. It's no wonder we turn to AI to do the work for us. But for most of us, the problem isn’t a lack of effort. It’s an unintended structural flaw built into the conventional 3-point outline. In this free, 45-minute live masterclass, we'll expose that flaw and fix it. In the process, you'll rewire the mechanics of sermon structure so that you preach not just to the cross but through it—and start preaching grace not only as a fallback for failure but as fuel for change. Who Should Attend? - Pastors and preachers seeking a reliable, redemptive sermon preparation framework. - Church planters and ministry leaders experiencing weekly prep fatigue. - Anyone who desires to see people come alive to the wonder, beauty, and transforming power of living in union with Jesus. Reserve your spot today for the live masterclass. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/preach-grace-as-fuel Wednesday Morning, Sept. 2 11:00 AM ET | 10:00 CT | 9:00 MT | 8:00 PT Duration: 45 Minutes (including Q&A)

We are also working on an issue where Preach360 doesn't respect the word count you indicate at sermon set up. We found the bug and are squashing it as we speak. 🐞

This release focuses on helping you preach with greater pastoral precision, dig deeper into the text, and export your work seamlessly. - Listener Personas: You can now assign up to three real listeners to any sermon. Choose from 10 ready-made presets or build custom personas with seven custom fields. The AI coaches you specifically toward these listeners throughout the PPGR movements. Your chosen personas automatically roll forward into your next sermon and connect directly with the sermon series planner to keep your preparation focused. - The Listener Take-a-Way Review: Evaluate how your message impacts your targeted audience before Sunday. The new review step asks what each named listener would take away from the sermon and highlights potential blind spots. - "Go Deeper" Exegesis Drill-Down: Highlight any portion of text inside the exegesis guide to generate deeper studies nested right underneath it, keeping the rest of your study completely intact across reloads. - Deep Research for Target Audiences: Use the new "Run Deep Research" tool during setup to generate editable contextual summaries that feed directly into the Problem and Gospel steps. - Native PDF Export: Export cleanly formatted PDF documents from any pane alongside Word and Markdown. Built to stay locked on tablets for preaching and provide consistent formatting for AV teams. Join me for our weekly live workshop on Wednesday at 11:00 AM ET. This week's workshop is being hosted on our Skool community. Go here for the link. As always, if you hit a snag or find a bug, let me know with a Support Ticket

We've been working hard behind the scenes to make Preach360 a more powerful, seamless tool for your weekly preaching ministry, now for prep and beyond. Here is what's new this week: (1) FULL MOBILE RESPONSIVENESS Preach360 is now fully optimized for your phone or tablet across all panels, in both portrait and landscape modes. (2) THE SERMON REPURPOSING SUITE You spend hours crafting a message. Now, you can easily extend its life beyond Sunday morning. We’ve added a complete suite of tools to turn your sermon into church-wide weekly discipleship resources. With one click, generate content based exclusively on your sermons for: - Small Group Study Guides - Sunday School curriculum for all ages: Pre-K-1st, 2nd-5th, middle school, and high school (print one or a complete packet) - Family Devotions for the entire week - Social Media Posts - SEO Sermon Summaries ALL BASED ON YOUR SERMON. Bring Any Sermon: You aren't limited to sermons built in the app. You can now use an outside sermon as the source text for repurposing. Total Editing Control: We've integrated a Rich Text Editor and the ability to save manual changes across all content panels so you can revise everything before downloading. (3) THREE COACHING LEVELS You can now select your preferred level of coaching guidance (beginning, intermediate, or advanced) as you work through the sermon builder. (4) AUTO-GENERATE SERMON SLIDES You can now instantly pull presentation slides straight from your sermon material. (5) CHOOSE MULTIPLE SERMON TEXTS The Sermon Setup now allows you to input between 1 and 3 foundational texts for your message. (6) GLOBAL TRANSLATION UTILITY Pastors around the world can now use Preach360 to draft and preach in their native language. (7) AI ASSISTANCE LEVELS AND WORD COUNT Tell the system exactly how long you want your draft to be, and dial the AI assistance up or down based on your preference. (8) LEGACY SERMON CONVERSION IN YOUR VOICE The legacy conversion process is now directly connected to your voice profile. When you run an old sermon through the PPGR conversion, it will use your words in your voice.