Terms of Service

Last updated: September 10, 2026

Welcome to SermonForge. By accessing or using sermonforge.dev (the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the Service.

1. The Service

SermonForge provides sermon planning resources, including sermon series outlines, detailed sermon outlines, a rich text editor for building manuscripts, and tools to generate Google Slides presentations. Everything is free and nothing requires an account.

2. Your Sermons and Google Drive

Manuscripts you write are saved on your own device. You may optionally connect your own Google Drive, in which case SermonForge saves them as files in a "SermonForge" folder there using the limited drive.file permission. SermonForge does not operate accounts, does not store your manuscripts on its servers, and does not receive your name or email address. You are responsible for your Google account and for keeping your own backups.

3. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

Use the Service for any unlawful purpose
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Service
Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its servers
Scrape, copy, or redistribute our sermon outlines in bulk for commercial purposes
Use automated tools to access the Service without our permission
Impersonate any person or entity

4. Intellectual Property

Our Content. The sermon outlines, blog posts, website design, and other original content on SermonForge are owned by SermonForge and protected by copyright. You may use our sermon outlines for personal ministry and church use, including preaching sermons based on our outlines and adapting them for your congregation. You may not resell, redistribute, or republish our outlines in bulk or as a competing product.

Your Content. You retain full ownership of any content you create using the Service, including manuscripts, notes, and edits you make in the editor. We do not claim any ownership rights over your content, and because it is stored on your device and in your own Google Drive, we never hold a copy of it.

5. Scripture Quotations

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language. Users may not copy or download more than 500 verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.

Bible text fetched into slides through the "Fetch ESV Text" feature comes from the ESV API at esv.org and is marked "ESV" wherever it appears.

6. Google Slides Integration

The Create Slides feature generates a Google Slides presentation in your Google Drive on your behalf. You are responsible for the content of any presentations created. SermonForge accesses your Google account only to create the presentations and manuscript files you explicitly request and cannot read, modify, or delete any file it did not create.

7. Free Service

SermonForge is currently offered free of charge. We reserve the right to introduce paid features or tiers in the future. If we do, existing free functionality will not be removed without reasonable notice.

8. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. SermonForge does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure. Our sermon outlines are intended as starting points for your own sermon preparation and should not be used as a substitute for personal study and prayer.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, SermonForge shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or relating to your use of the Service. Our total liability shall not exceed the amount you have paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim (which, for a free service, is zero).

10. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time; your sermons remain on your device and in your Google Drive regardless. We may suspend or terminate access to the Service if you violate these Terms or if we discontinue the Service. Because SermonForge stores none of your content, discontinuing the Service does not remove anything from your device or your Drive.

11. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting the updated Terms on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the Service after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at matt@sermonforge.dev.