Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/sermon-tools A daily show for pastors and church media teams, about what happens to a sermon after the amen: the recording, the clips, the transcript, the small-group guide, the Monday after. Every episode takes one narrow, practical problem and walks through how to do it this week. Try the free tools behind the show: Sermon Clips gives you 2 free sermons, no card — your sermon becomes captioned clips and a Sermon Packet. Sermon Transcription gives your first sermon free, no card — transcript, notes, devotional, quotes and discussion questions from one upload. Sermon Clips: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools © 2026 Sermon Tools 3f7c656e-29fa-5eae-ba9d-9042f6b3fe71 yes en Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:53:42 -0600 Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:54:16 -0600 https://sermon-clips.com https://img.transistorcdn.com/b5GW5s2LTErZ0-YOW6k-HiQd8YkEo472hR8bbyTdv-Q/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OTQ0/MDhlYjljMWI4YjVk/M2I3ZjM5MmZiOGE0/NjRhMS5qcGc.jpg https://sermon-clips.com episodic Sermon Tools A daily show for pastors and church media teams, about what happens to a sermon after the amen: the recording, the clips, the transcript, the small-group guide, the Monday after. Every episode takes one narrow, practical problem and walks through how to do it this week. Try the free tools behind the show: Sermon Clips gives you 2 free sermons, no card — your sermon becomes captioned clips and a Sermon Packet. Sermon Transcription gives your first sermon free, no card — transcript, notes, devotional, quotes and discussion questions from one upload. Sermon Clips: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools A daily show for pastors and church media teams, about what happens to a sermon after the amen: the recording, the clips, the transcript, the small-group guide, the Monday after. sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools Sermon Tools jake.giebel@gmail.com No No Ep. 12 — What We Got Wrong This Season — church media full 147a6e91-ae43-4c2d-a79a-92a335cff7d4 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5efe7164 Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:53:42 -0600 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 508 The season finale is the honest one: what this show got wrong across its first twelve episodes. The clip is not the starting point — the transcript is. Captions are not a finishing touch — for the person scrolling muted, the caption is the clip. The guide nobody opens was never a design problem, it was a source problem. A content calendar does not fail for lack of ideas, it fails for lack of rhythm and a named approver. Bilingual captions are not translation, and the tools do not translate or dub. And reach is not more posts — it is one right minute, chosen by a human, posted the same day every week. The episode turns all of it into a one-page keep, cut, fix review any church can do this week: protect the two or three things that worked, cut the one thing nobody uses, and work one fix in order — transcript first with the spellings fixed once, then one captioned clip, then a human approval. Try both tools free: Sermon Clips — two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription — your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools The season finale is the honest one: what this show got wrong across its first twelve episodes. The clip is not the starting point — the transcript is. Captions are not a finishing touch — for the person scrolling muted, the caption is the clip. The guide sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 11 — Fifty Churches, One Comms Director — church media full aefa99c4-0b85-490a-89ec-aaf27882aa7a https://share.transistor.fm/s/65ed84e7 Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:56:39 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 622 One comms director looks after fifty churches, and most of them have no media staff at all. Sending them another login does not work — a small church has no slack to learn a new tool alone. This episode lays out what a district can hand them instead: start with a five-church pilot for four Sundays, hand them a one-page kit (not a login) with one upload place, one naming rule, and two deadlines, centralize the boring first pass (transcript first with a per-church word list, then one captioned clip), send it back as a ten-minute approval packet where the local church always chooses what posts, and keep the same day and time every week. The one thing to steal is the five-church pilot sheet: five churches named, one upload place, two deadlines, one finished example, and one named approver at each church. Try both tools free: Sermon Clips — two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription — your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools One comms director looks after fifty churches, and most of them have no media staff at all. Sending them another login does not work — a small church has no slack to learn a new tool alone. This episode lays out what a district can hand them instead: star sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 10 — The Guest Preacher Problem — sermon clips full 0def9855-8f91-417b-b038-ca20e6848f88 https://share.transistor.fm/s/4ef52526 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:52:24 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 545 A guest preacher stood in your pulpit on Sunday, preached a good sermon, and by Tuesday nobody can find the recording, nobody asked if you could clip it, and nobody knows how to spell his name. This episode keeps the same weekly system working in a guest week: send a five-line brief before Sunday and settle permission early; sound-check the guest's actual voice, not your pastor's; have one person write down two timestamps during the sermon; on Monday run the transcript first to fix the guest's names and passage, then choose the clip from those corrected words; and send the guest the clip before it posts, on the same day and in the same place as every other week. The one thing to steal is the one-page guest sheet with four boxes: permission confirmed, name and passage spelled by the guest, sound check done at his volume, clip sent to the guest before posting. Try both tools free: Sermon Clips — two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription — your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools A guest preacher stood in your pulpit on Sunday, preached a good sermon, and by Tuesday nobody can find the recording, nobody asked if you could clip it, and nobody knows how to spell his name. This episode keeps the same weekly system working in a guest sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 9 — Year One of a Church Plant — Church Media When There Is No Media Team full bcda73dd-aa78-496a-9536-0bbfc27d8e00 https://share.transistor.fm/s/0705458e Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:53:58 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 578 Year one of a church plant. The same person who preached on Sunday is trying to edit the sermon on Monday night, in a church that sets up and tears down a rented room every week and has no media team yet. This episode builds the cheapest weekly system that still sounds like care: record the same way every week with a thirty-second sound check and a four-line setup note; start Monday with the transcript and let the Sermon Pack carry the devotional and discussion questions; keep clips to one a week, chosen by a person and posted in one place; put the three outputs in the same three places every week; and give one volunteer one small, named job. The one thing to steal is the one-one-one rule inside a one-hour Monday box, held steady for four Sundays. Year one of a church plant. The same person who preached on Sunday is trying to edit the sermon on Monday night, in a church that sets up and tears down a rented room every week and has no media team yet. This episode builds the cheapest weekly system tha sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 8 — She Found Us on a Reel — Church Reels That Bring First-Time Visitors full 7163cb7e-7d05-4d59-bf44-2de1c70bfae2 https://share.transistor.fm/s/103ecb5a Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:53:47 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 568 She found us on a Reel. A visitor watches a forty-second clip on Tuesday and walks in on Sunday for the first time in years — and nothing in the building tells her she is in the right place. This episode builds the short bridge between the clip and Sunday: make the clip easy to check with the church name, town, start time, and a working link to the full sermon; tell the greeters and welcome team what went out that week; put one recognizable thread from the clip into the welcome; offer one clear next step drawn from that same sermon's discussion questions; and ask, in one line, how she found you. The one thing to steal is the Friday front-door check: five minutes as a stranger, on a phone, before Sunday. Try both tools free: Sermon Clips — two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription — your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools She found us on a Reel. A visitor watches a forty-second clip on Tuesday and walks in on Sunday for the first time in years — and nothing in the building tells her she is in the right place. This episode builds the short bridge between the clip and Sunday sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 7 — Which Moment Do You Clip? — How to Choose Sermon Clips Worth Posting full cac7122c-0d0f-4eed-a1a2-ef135595998e https://share.transistor.fm/s/aa0b0b1c Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:54:25 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 500 Which moment do you clip? Picking a sermon clip by scrubbing and memory lets the easiest laugh win over the sermon's actual point. This episode gives a simple order for choosing: write the point in one sentence first, find two or three candidates by reading the transcript instead of scrubbing, test each one for standing alone and for carrying the point instead of just a reaction, cut for the sentence rather than the clock, and save the runners-up labeled for a slow week. The one thing to steal is the three-line clip card: the point, the clip's first spoken line, and its last spoken line. Try both tools free: Sermon Clips - two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription - your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Which moment do you clip? Picking a sermon clip by scrubbing and memory lets the easiest laugh win over the sermon's actual point. This episode gives a simple order for choosing: write the point in one sentence first, find two or three candidates by readi sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 6 — The Spanish Service in the Gym — Church Media for a Bilingual Congregation full 01258ebd-8975-4145-a080-77563aed1ece https://share.transistor.fm/s/f54d1a2b Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:54:06 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 502 A bilingual church's Spanish service, meeting in the gym, usually gets Monday's leftovers: a phone recording if someone remembered, captions translated instead of transcribed, and a small group guide swapped word-for-word from the English one. This episode gives that service its own workflow in its own language — record it on purpose with a labeled file, transcribe and caption it in the language it was preached in, put the church's own bilingual checker on names, Scripture references, and quotes for fifteen minutes instead of two hours of repairs, build the guide from the Spanish sermon itself, and post its clips on the same weekly rhythm. Plainly stated: the tools do not translate or dub a sermon, and nothing posts itself — a person chooses every clip. Try the free tools: Sermon Clips — two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Sermon Transcription — your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools A bilingual church's Spanish service, meeting in the gym, usually gets Monday's leftovers: a phone recording if someone remembered, captions translated instead of transcribed, and a small group guide swapped word-for-word from the English one. This episod sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 5 — A Comms Director's Content Calendar — Turn One Sermon Into a Week of Church Content full 73bfae17-a6d3-4a74-bf97-1469edf8a0ab https://share.transistor.fm/s/0d638f11 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:54:09 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 554 A blank Monday calendar stops being a daily invention when one sermon upload feeds the whole week: Monday's small group guide, Tuesday and Thursday's captioned clips picked from the sermon's main point and its application, Wednesday's quote and devotional, and Friday's invitation to next Sunday — the same five-day pattern whoever preached, in Planning Center, YouTube, and Canva where they help, with a person approving every post and one slot left empty on purpose. Try both tools free: Sermon Clips — two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools — and Sermon Transcription — your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools A blank Monday calendar stops being a daily invention when one sermon upload feeds the whole week: Monday's small group guide, Tuesday and Thursday's captioned clips picked from the sermon's main point and its application, Wednesday's quote and devotional sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 4 — Nobody Opens the Small Group Guide — Sermon Discussion Questions People Actually Use full 787a1c9b-6b12-492b-b325-af043edd27c7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/d38132b0 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:53:07 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 550 Your small group guide gets ignored when it could have been written before the sermon was preached. This episode shows how to build a one page guide from Sunday's actual words: start from the transcript, keep it to four questions — recall, text, apply, pray — quote the pastor exactly, send it on Monday or Tuesday, and cut what leaders do not use. Try the free tools: Sermon Clips — two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools and Sermon Transcription — your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Your small group guide gets ignored when it could have been written before the sermon was preached. This episode shows how to build a one page guide from Sunday's actual words: start from the transcript, keep it to four questions — recall, text, apply, pr sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 3 — The Pastor Paces and the Crop Can't Keep Up — Vertical Sermon Clips That Track the Speaker full dc13f11d-47bd-4d9e-b25c-ad4922104e32 https://share.transistor.fm/s/62a5b42c Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:53:26 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 418 Episode 3 of Sermon Tools (The Clip pillar): a walking preacher keeps leaving the vertical crop — what that costs a volunteer on Monday night, and a practical order for fixing it: shoot closer and still, pick the moment first and frame for that minute, reframe rather than restart, fix it at the camera next Sunday, and steal a ten-minute sermon map. Try the tools free — Sermon Clips, two free sermons, no card: https://sermon-clips.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools — Sermon Transcription, your first sermon free, no card: https://sermon-transcription.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=sermon-tools Episode 3 of Sermon Tools (The Clip pillar): a walking preacher keeps leaving the vertical crop — what that costs a volunteer on Monday night, and a practical order for fixing it: shoot closer and still, pick the moment first and frame for that minute, re sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 2 — Your Transcript Is Wrong in the Same Five Places — How to Fix Sermon Transcripts and Captions Fast full 1449d01c-ef71-4ee5-b81f-82ea70c4456c https://share.transistor.fm/s/2f8ae6f0 Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:32:32 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 386 One wrong word in the transcript gets copied into your captions, quotes, and small group guide. The five predictable transcript mistakes, the ten-minute correct-it-once workflow, and the church word list every media volunteer needs. One wrong word in the transcript gets copied into your captions, quotes, and small group guide. The five predictable transcript mistakes, the ten-minute correct-it-once workflow, and the church word list every media volunteer needs. sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No Ep. 1 — A Sermon Shouldn't Vanish After Sunday — Turn One Sermon Into Clips, Notes, and a Devotional full 59e0c998-1d22-49d6-8ae0-c0bba27aaf8b https://share.transistor.fm/s/cca173b6 Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:50:21 -0500 Sermon Tools Sermon Tools 240 Episode 1 of Sermon Tools, the daily show for pastors and church media teams. Alex and Jordan lay out the 4-piece sermon tools stack: transcription first, captioned clips second, written follow-through third, and a weekly rhythm over all of it. Episode 1 of Sermon Tools, the daily show for pastors and church media teams. Alex and Jordan lay out the 4-piece sermon tools stack: transcription first, captioned clips second, written follow-through third, and a weekly rhythm over all of it. sermon, pastor, church media, sermon clips, sermon transcription, preaching, small groups, free sermon tools No