SermonForgeShort notes on each change to SermonForge, newest first.
The Advent series now covers all four Sundays, with a new closing sermon, “Emmanuel: God With Us” (Matthew 1:18-25), and the preaching calendar fills all four. A new Seasonal page gathers every seasonal series in one place, and the Scripture Index now links to a page for each book of the Bible with every sermon on that book.
The preaching calendar, editor, library and shared plans now look right in dark mode: notices, status labels and month headers follow your theme instead of showing up as bright boxes or washed-out bars.
Orange links, labels and buttons are a deeper shade that's easier to read on white, and links in articles are underlined. Small links (the footer, breadcrumbs and category labels) are easier to tap on a phone. Badges no longer show as bright boxes in dark mode, and the menu on the home page no longer slides under the logo on narrow screens.
Sermon outline pages now lead with their Bible passage in search results (for example, “John 1:1-18 Sermon Outline”). Links to SermonForge shared on Facebook and other sites show a proper preview image. The logo now downloads in a fraction of the time, and new blog articles get their own search listing as soon as they publish.
Blog articles now link to the sermons they mention, and sermon pages point to related articles.
The blog is set up to publish a new article every Friday morning, and you can now search it. Post dates show the right day everywhere; some had read a day early in the Americas. This page is new too: a short note here whenever something changes.
All 307 sermons now have a complete outline, including the seven series that had none (Hebrews, 1 Corinthians, Ecclesiastes, Galatians, Titus, Grief to Grace and Digital Christ-Followers). Search now finds individual weeks and seasonal sermons, not just whole series. The category pages (Book Study, Topical and the rest) now show their series instead of “Category not found.”
We fixed page information that Google reported as unreadable and added breadcrumb trails to the browse and category pages, so search results show where each page sits on the site.
The editor can now open your sermon in Google Docs or download it as a Word file, and the slide decks it makes in Google Slides are saved in your SermonForge folder in Drive. Study Tools added the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, with cross-references for nearly every verse in the Bible.
The preaching calendar can sync through your own Google Drive, so your plan follows you from computer to computer. You can also download it as a calendar file for Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar, or share a read-only link to your plan.
SermonForge no longer has accounts or sign-ins: every outline is free to read, and each week has its own page you can link to. The editor saves your manuscripts on your device and, if you connect it, in your own Google Drive.
The library grew to 46 sermon series, 360 sermon illustrations and 50 blog articles. New tools arrived too: site-wide search, the preaching calendar, Preaching Mode for the pulpit, and an FAQ.