A comprehensive desktop suite built around the real weekly rhythm of ministry — Scripture study with Word Study and six classic commentaries, sermon and slide building, a preaching calendar with pastoral care built in, offline text-to-speech, and private AI brainstorming. All in one focused space, running entirely on your own computer.
No subscriptions, no complex database syncing, and no distracted tabs. From first read-through to Sunday's bulletin, it's all here — and it all runs offline.
Instant access to dozens of Bible versions with full formal names (ESV, NASB, NKJV, NIV, ASV, and more).
Compare multiple translations side-by-side in parallel tabs to identify linguistic nuances and deep translation details instantly.
Open a Strong's-tagged interlinear view for any chapter, with red-letter text and one-click definitions from a local Strong's dictionary.
Read six classic, public-domain commentaries verse-by-verse right alongside the text — no internet connection required.
Write your sermon manuscript in a custom rich-text editor with a live Bible reference pane open right beside it — no tab-switching required.
Type a reference like [John 3:16] and the full verse is inserted automatically. Tag each sermon with a series and part number to keep everything organized.
Build a slide deck right next to your manuscript with Title, Bullet List, and Scripture layouts, custom backgrounds, and one-click verse insertion.
Let the AI Assistant generate a first-draft deck straight from your finished sermon, then launch a fullscreen Presenter Mode for the service.
Leverage AI assistance for brainstorming, outline drafting, and word research — with your choice of how it runs.
Use fully private Local Mode with complete offline isolation, or connect your own API key for Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, or OpenAI ChatGPT in Online Mode — your choice, never required.
A ministry planning hub built right in — see every sermon, series, and scheduled event on one calendar, marked in green or red at a glance.
Prayer requests and per-person visitation history live on the same calendar too, instead of a separate tool to maintain.
Build a printable order-of-service for any date — add, reorder, and time each item with a running duration total.
Pull that date's sermon title and passage in with one click, then export a clean, ready-to-print PDF.
Have any chapter read aloud with a local neural voice — not a cloud service, and not your operating system's default robotic voice.
Select a tricky name and right-click "Pronounce" to hear just that word. Chapters you've listened to before play back instantly from a local cache.
Every sermon you save is automatically registered in a searchable library — find any past sermon by title, subject, passage, date, or series in seconds.
Write notes on any chapter, then browse and search every note you've ever taken from one place.
Study with built-in classical reference books including Easton's Bible Dictionary and Thompson Chain Topics.
Build your theological database by adding your own library of PDF and ePub reference books to read right next to Scripture.
Click through the primary interfaces below to experience the streamlined layout and responsive dynamic theming.
Prefer to run AI locally? Pastor's Sermon Pro can size a model to your hardware automatically. Choose the best local setup with this interactive recommendations calculator — or skip local setup entirely and connect your own Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT API key in Online Mode instead.
Adjust your hardware profile below to compute the optimum localized settings.
Selecting your specifications will instantly display the optimum model weights and hardware-accelerated modes.
Unlike subscription software, your thoughts, references, outlines, and manuscripts are never uploaded, parsed, or processed on corporate servers. Bible text, commentaries, Word Study, text-to-speech, notes, and your preaching calendar all run with complete internet isolation. The one exception is Online AI Mode — entirely opt-in, and only active if you choose to enter your own API key.
Pastor's Sermon Pro began as a dedicated endeavor by Michael Howard to solve a real-world problem: providing pastors and teachers with a completely private, offline, and distraction-free pulpit workspace. It has since grown into a full ministry suite — Bible study, sermon and slide writing, preaching calendar, pastoral care, and bulletins — while keeping every manuscript and note strictly local.
This software is 100% community-supported and completely free of telemetry, data harvesting, and locking subscriptions. If Pastor's Sermon Pro streamlines your weekly study and helps focus your preparation, consider partnering with its development.
Every donation directly finances offline theological datasets, cross-platform performance profiling, and privacy-first local AI architectures.
Download the package for your preferred operating system. Fully featured out-of-the-box.
Complete installer package supporting Windows 10 and 11. Includes all core dictionaries and side-by-side Scripture engines.
Optimized light package for Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux architectures. Background models are fetched on-demand.
To install the application system-wide on your Linux distribution, run the self-extracting installer in your terminal:
chmod +x PastorsSermonPro_Installer.run && ./PastorsSermonPro_Installer.run
Note: Optional AI models are downloaded directly inside the application interface in the background, keeping the initial payload download light.
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