Every sermon you upload to Sermon Clips is transcribed (free), stored, and indexed. That means your dashboard library is also a searchable archive of every word you've ever preached. Search by scripture reference, topic, phrase, or pastor — and surface clips, transcripts, and full sermons in seconds.
You've preached hundreds of sermons. None of them are searchable. The wisdom is there — you just can't find it when you need it.
Your sermons live as long YouTube videos with no internal search. Finding a specific quote means scrubbing through hours of recordings.
You preach on anxiety again 6 months later — and forget you already had a perfect clip on the same topic sitting in your archive.
Visitors searching your website for 'sermon on forgiveness' find no results. Your sermon archive isn't indexed in any meaningful way.
Upload once. Search forever. Here's the workflow from raw sermon to indexed archive.
Upload your sermons (any backlog welcome)
Drop in a YouTube link, Vimeo URL, or video file. Batch-upload your entire backlog — years of sermons go in at once. No re-recording, no re-uploading to a separate system.
Each sermon is transcribed and indexed
Every word is captured with timestamps, then indexed into your private library. Scripture references are detected automatically. Topics are tagged. This happens in the background while you keep working.
Search your library by scripture, topic, phrase, or pastor
Type 'Romans 8' and see every sermon that cited it. Search 'anxiety' and pull every clip on the topic. Filter by which pastor preached it, or what date range.
See the exact clip, timestamp, and context
Results include the exact moment in the video, the timestamp, the surrounding transcript paragraph, and which sermon it came from. No more scrubbing.
Reuse, link, or build a topical playlist
Reuse the clip on social, link to the full sermon in your newsletter, or build a topical playlist ("Best of: Anxiety") for visitor discovery on your church site.
Once every sermon is indexed, your archive stops being a graveyard of past content and starts becoming an active ministry tool.
Build a topical sermon index page (SEO gold)
Export clips and transcripts to your CMS to build pages like '12 sermons on anxiety.' Visitors searching Google for sermons on anxiety find YOUR church — not someone else's.
Repurpose your own clips for series highlight reels
Finishing a series on Romans? Pull every clip you made along the way and assemble a 90-second highlight reel. The work is already done — you just have to find it.
Find supporting quotes for your next sermon
Writing on grace? Search your archive for every time you've taught on it before. Borrow your own best lines without re-listening to 20 sermons.
Build 'Best Sermons on [Topic]' pages for visitors
Curate landing pages for the questions seekers actually search. 'Best sermons on doubt.' 'Best sermons on marriage.' Each one drives organic traffic to your church.
Surface relevant past sermons in your newsletter
Tying this week's message to something you taught last year? Pull the clip in 30 seconds and embed it in your weekly email. Continuity your congregation feels.
Give congregants a searchable archive for personal study
Share access (or share individual links) so members can search past teachings on the topics they're wrestling with. The archive becomes a discipleship tool.
Full-text transcript search
Search every word across every sermon you've ever uploaded. Quotes, phrases, illustrations — all findable instantly.
Scripture-reference search
Type 'Romans 8:28' and see every sermon that cited it. Scripture references are auto-detected and indexed separately for precision.
Pastor / speaker filter
Multi-pastor church? Filter by who preached it. Useful for guest speaker tracking, succession planning, and sermon attribution.
Date-range filter
Narrow to a specific series, season, or year. Find that Easter clip from 2024 without scrolling through 200 unrelated sermons.
Topic / keyword search with relevance ranking
Results are ranked by relevance, not just date. The sermon that talked about anxiety for 20 minutes ranks above the one that mentioned it once.
Export results as a series playlist
Found 8 sermons on grace? Export the set as a curated playlist with links, timestamps, and transcripts — ready to share or embed.
Works on every tier. The free trial gives you searchable transcripts for your first sermon. Paid plans unlock unlimited transcription and full archive search across your entire library.
Start FreeHow far back can I upload sermons into the archive?
There's no limit. Batch-upload your entire sermon archive going back years — we'll transcribe everything and index it for search. Most churches start by uploading the last 12 months, then backfill older sermons over time. YouTube channel links, Vimeo URLs, and direct file uploads all work for backfill.
Can the searchable archive be public on our church website?
Not directly via Sermon Clips — your dashboard library is private to your team. To surface the archive publicly, you have two options: (1) export clips and transcripts to your church CMS to build a topical sermon index page, or (2) use the share-link feature for individual clips and full sermons. Many churches use the search to find content, then publish curated topical pages back on their own site.
Does the search work in non-English transcripts?
Yes. We support 30+ languages and search works in the source language of each sermon. Spanish sermons are searchable in Spanish, Portuguese in Portuguese, Korean in Korean, etc. If you have a multilingual church, each sermon is indexed in the language it was preached in — you don't have to choose one language for the whole archive.
Will deleting a sermon also delete its transcript from the archive?
Yes. When you delete a sermon, both the video and its transcript are removed from the archive together. This is intentional for privacy compliance — if a guest speaker or congregant asks you to take down a sermon, the searchable record goes with it. There's no orphaned transcript left behind.