About

A sermon takes all week to write. It deserves more than one morning.

Sermon Clips is a small company run by one person, built so that the message a pastor spent the week on keeps reaching people after the parking lot empties.

Who builds it

Jake Giebel

I am a marketer in Minneapolis. For most of a decade my job has been getting a message in front of the people it was meant for, first for brands and then, increasingly, by building the systems that do the repetitive parts of that work automatically.

Churches have the opposite problem from every brand I have worked with. A brand has a budget and spends most of it working out what to say. A church has something worth saying every single week and nobody with a free afternoon to cut it up for the feed. The sermon gets recorded, the recording gets uploaded, and by Tuesday it is a long file nobody opens.

So I built the pipeline that does the afternoon: listen to the whole message, pick the moments a pastor would pick, cut them from the original at full quality, keep the preacher in frame, caption every word in the language it was preached in, clean the audio, and put the finished clips in your inbox. It runs for every church the same way, about five minutes after you paste the link.

It is a one-person company. The emails you get are from me, the replies go to me, and when a clip comes back wrong the note you leave in the dashboard is read by me, usually the same day. If you want to know whether this is a fit for your church before uploading anything, write to jake@sermon-clips.com and ask.

The rules the product is built on

Each of these is enforced somewhere in the code, not just written here.

We extend the sermon. We never write it.

Every word in a clip, a caption or the Sermon Packet was said from the pulpit. The AI finds, cuts, frames and transcribes. It does not compose a sentence the preacher did not say, and it never will.

Nothing goes out without a person choosing it.

Clips land in your dashboard. You download the ones you want and post them yourself. We do not post to your accounts, so a clip that misses the point of the message never reaches anyone but you.

The tedious part is ours. The ministry is yours.

Scrubbing a recording, typing captions, cropping to vertical, exporting for every feed: that is the job we take. Hospital visits, sermon prep and the people in front of you are not something software should be anywhere near.

Say less, and make all of it true.

The homepage numbers are read from the database, not typed. There are no testimonials because no church has been asked for one yet. If a page here promises something, the pipeline does it.

What it does not do

Some of this is a limit we will build past. Some of it is a line we drew on purpose. The full list, with the reasons, is on the promise page.

  • Translate or dub, captions are in the language the sermon was preached in
  • Post to your accounts, you download and post (direct publishing is not built)
  • Add B-roll, music beds or motion graphics
  • Square or landscape exports, every clip is vertical today

Judge it on your own sermon

One sermon free, no card. Paste Sunday's link, open the email, and decide for yourself whether the clips sound like your pastor.

Clip a sermon free

No credit card required. Replies come from Jake.