ThAD connects your personal archive to ChatGPT — giving you instant access to every sermon, article, and pastoral letter you’ve ever written, alongside scripture, the lectionary, and online scholarship. Here’s what you can do with it.
Search & Discover Your Archive
You’ve written hundreds — maybe thousands — of documents over a career. Finding a specific piece, or everything you’ve ever written on a topic, shouldn’t take hours. ThAD uses semantic search across your entire archive, so related concepts match even when the exact words don’t.
Just ask
- “Find my sermons about grace”
- “Show me Advent sermons from 2018”
- “Do I have anything on the parable of the sower?”
- “What have I preached at funerals?”
- “Find sermons where I talk about C.S. Lewis”
- “Show me all the sermons in my Lenten Reflections 2024 series”
Search across every dimension
ThAD doesn’t just search titles. Every document is indexed across themes, scripture passages, biblical characters and narratives, liturgical seasons, series names, occasions, audience, document type, and more. Searching for “Christmas” also finds sermons about incarnation and nativity. Searching “John 3” finds sermons on John 3:16.
See the big picture
Beyond finding individual documents, ThAD can analyze patterns across your entire body of work — something that would be impractical to do manually.
- “What themes come up most in my sermons?”
- “How has my preaching on forgiveness changed over the years?”
- “Compare my Easter sermons from 2019 and 2023”
- “What haven’t I preached on lately?”
- “Pull together all my class transcripts on the Psalms and help me build a chapter outline for a book”
Prepare for Sunday
Sunday comes every week. ThAD’s sermon briefing pulls together everything you need for preparation in a single conversation.
Your weekly briefing includes
- Liturgical season and context
- This week’s lectionary readings (full NRSV text)
- Your past sermons that match those readings
- Topics you haven’t yet covered on those texts
- Preaching ideas that connect the readings
Just say “Give me my Sunday briefing” and you’re off.
Scripture at your fingertips
Look up any Bible passage or lectionary reading mid-conversation — no need to switch apps. ThAD supports NRSV with Apocrypha (default), NRSV, KJV, and AV translations.
- “Give me John 3:16 in NRSV”
- “What are today’s lectionary readings?”
- “Show me the readings for December 25”
Write & Edit
ThAD knows your writing voice — not just generically, but differently for sermons, pastoral letters, articles, and other document types. Everything it helps you write sounds like you, because it’s learned from everything you’ve written.
Pre-writing & brainstorming
You have scripture passages, half-formed ideas, and fragments — but not a draft yet. ThAD helps you find the thread. What makes this more than generic brainstorming is that your archive is right there in the same conversation: dump your raw ideas, ask what you’ve already written on the topic, pull in a passage, get structural suggestions, push back, and arrive at an outline.
- “Here are some passages and ideas I’m circling around — help me find the thread”
- “I have John 4, something about thirst, and a memory from last summer — where does this go?”
- “What have I already preached on this passage? I don’t want to repeat myself.”
- “Give me three possible structural frameworks for a sermon on this passage”
- “I’m stuck near the end — give me four different ways I could finish this piece”
Editing & cleanup
Polish a rough draft while preserving your voice and intent. ThAD is especially useful for voice-to-text transcripts — dictate into Word, Pages, or any voice-to-text tool, paste the transcript, and say “clean this up.” The result sounds like you because ThAD’s style profiles are built from your actual writing.
- “Here’s my dictated sermon transcript — clean it up and polish it”
- “Make this tighter”
- “Fix the structure but keep my voice”
Drafting new content
Generate first drafts of pastoral letters, articles, class materials, and more — in your voice. You can even point ThAD to a past document and say “use this as the model.”
- “Write me a pastoral letter about stewardship”
- “Draft an article on the meaning of baptism”
- “My 2023 stewardship letter went really well — use it as a template for this year’s”
- “I have information for 50 pilgrimage emails — here’s the source material. Draft all 50.”
Convert between document types
A sermon is written to be spoken; an article is written to be read. Converting between types isn’t a simple reformat — it requires restructuring and tonal adjustment. ThAD knows the style profile for each document type and handles both.
- “Turn this sermon into an article for the newsletter”
- “I preached this as a sermon — help me turn it into a bible study with discussion questions”
- “Take this pastoral letter and expand it into a full class on the topic”
| From | To | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| Sermon | Article | Remove spoken cadence; add reading structure; tighten argument |
| Sermon | Bible study | Add discussion questions; foreground scripture; reduce narrative |
| Class | Pastoral letter | Condense; shift from teaching to pastoral voice; remove objectives |
| Forum talk | Article | Expand depth; restructure for reading; remove Q&A scaffolding |
Adapt for a different audience or length
Same document type, different context. A full Sunday sermon becomes a shorter version for a family service. A graveside homily is trimmed for a 10-minute slot. A class lecture is adapted for a youth group.
- “Condense this sermon to 7–10 minutes and adjust it for a congregation with a lot of children”
- “Shorten this for a graveside service — needs to be under 5 minutes”
- “Adapt this for a youth group — same message, different language”
Research & Analyze
ThAD puts two thousand years of Christian theology — patristics, the Reformation, modern biblical scholarship, contemporary commentary — in the same conversation as your personal archive. Pull in external sources and immediately compare them against your own work.
Theological research & comparison
- “What does Chesterton say about the Prodigal Son? And what have I written on it?”
- “Find some recent scholarship on atonement theology and compare it to my sermons on the topic”
- “What are other preachers saying about this week’s readings? How does my approach differ?”
Check your draft’s focus
Get a second opinion on whether a draft is actually saying what you intend — especially useful after a long writing session when you can’t see the forest for the trees.
- “Read this and tell me if it’s actually saying one thing or three”
- “Is this sermon about forgiveness or is it about doubt? I can’t tell anymore”
- “Where does this lose focus?”
Extract scripture citations
Generate a complete list of scripture references in a document — including allusions you didn’t explicitly quote. Useful for citation footnotes, archival metadata, or simply knowing what sources you drew on.
Summarize at any length
Produce condensed versions of any document at whatever length you need — a 1,000-word detailed summary, a 250-word recap for an email, or a re-teaching outline for opening the next session.
- “Summarize this class transcript in 1,000 words”
- “Give me a 250-word summary of this session”
- “Summarize last week’s class so I can use it as the opening review this week”
Grow Your Archive
Your archive grows as you keep writing. Adding new documents is as simple as sending an email.
How it works
- Email your document to your ThAD upload address
- Send from your registered email address
- Attach one document per email (.docx, .pages, .pdf, or .txt)
- Receive a confirmation email with the extracted metadata within a few minutes
ThAD automatically extracts the text, classifies the document type, and indexes themes, scripture references, biblical characters, liturgical context, and more — making the new document immediately searchable alongside everything else in your archive.
Ready to Get Started?
Whether you have 20 sermons or 700, ThAD can help you rediscover and build on your life’s work.