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Walk into Sunday knowing your sermon is ready.

Your shelf is full of commentaries on the text. There has never been one on the sermon itself. The Sermon Coach reads your draft and returns a full assessment in minutes: what holds, what drifts, and the changes that would most strengthen it before you step into the pulpit.

You already know there's a problem. You're living it.

"I'm not sure this sermon is ready, and I preach it in two days."

Sunday comes whether the sermon is ready or not, and you make the drive to church with no way to know if it's going to land until you're already preaching it. The Sermon Coach reads it before Sunday and tells you where it stands, while there's still time to do something about it.

"It's clear to me, but I wrote it. How do I know if it will be clear to them?"

The author's curse: fifteen hours in the text and you've read the manuscript so many times you can't see it straight anymore. You can't tell whether your big idea lands or just feels obvious because it's yours. The big-idea criterion asks the question you can't ask yourself: could a listener repeat your main point on Monday morning?

"Did I preach the gospel, or just good advice?"

The most common drift in preaching, and the easiest to miss, because a moralistic sermon still sounds biblical. The Sermon Coach catches it before three hundred people hear "try harder" in a sermon that was meant to give them Christ.

"Something's off. I can't name it. And the clock is running."

The Thursday-afternoon dread is real. The sermon is mostly there, but something isn't working and you can't put your finger on it. Structure? The big idea? The Sermon Coach spots it in minutes, so you spend your last two days fixing the right thing.

The people who love you tell you it was a good sermon, and they sincerely mean it. The Sermon Coach tells you the part they can't: what to sharpen before Sunday. So you walk to the pulpit knowing you've already heard the hard read, not wondering about it mid-sermon.

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What It Is

A structured evaluation of your sermon. In minutes.

Paste your manuscript and in a few minutes you get a structured read: scored, narrated, and prioritized, measured against eleven key questions that the expository tradition has always cared about answering. These eleven questions are drawn from the published work of Chapell, Keller, Piper, Robinson, the Simeon Trust, and 9Marks, none of whom are affiliated with The Sermon Coach.

Where it fits your week

It doesn't replace the work. It refines it.

Your study, your writing, your preaching stay yours. The Sermon Coach is the refinery in between.

The preaching rhythm: pray and study, write the sermon, strengthen the manuscript with The Sermon Coach, preach with Spirit-empowered confidence, then keep growing from the transcript with The Sermon Coach.
Who it's for

The Sermon Coach is for preachers who take the craft seriously and want to strengthen every sermon before they step into the pulpit. Especially:

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What You Get Back

This is what lands in your account.

One category and one highlighted quote from a real evaluation, scored against the rubric. Every preacher who uses The Sermon Coach receives a full version of this.

1Text & Theology
Average 4.3 / 5 · 13 / 15
▸ Textual fidelity & exegesis (Simeon Trust) 4/5
Simeon Trust · Let the text drive

Your three points are the text's three hortatory imperatives — "Let us draw near. Let us hold fast. Let us stir up. That is how we make the climb" — so the spine rises straight out of vv.22–24 rather than being imposed. The temple-curtain handling is accurate, and the Ezekiel 36:25–26 link for "sprinkled clean… washed with pure water" is a real intertextual echo, not a reach. What softens it: you open by framing the whole sermon as coming "to Mount Zion" — that's Hebrews 12:22 imported over a Hebrews 10 text, and at points the climbing image reads the passage rather than the passage generating the image.

▸ Christ-centered / redemptive arc (Chapell) 5/5
▸ Gospel clarity (Desiring God / Piper) 4/5

Faithfulness without the willpower trap

You named both ditches — moralism and "just let go of the rope" passivity — and steered between them. A sanctification sermon that stayed gospel the whole way through.

"we are found faithful in him by grace alone through faith alone."
Christ-centered · 5/5

See all eleven criteria, the anchored quotes, and the priorities below.

See It For Yourself

Sample evaluations.

Real evaluations of real sermons. These are what every preacher who uses The Sermon Coach receives.

Sample · Hebrews 10:19-25
Faithfulness Is a Climb
Trinity Bible Church · Chris Daukas
This is a faithfulness sermon that refuses to become a willpower sermon — and that refusal is its defining strength.
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Sample · Hebrews 12:18-29
The Unshakable Kingdom
Grace Church · Chris Daukas
Hebrews 12's hardest demand is to let the terror stay terrifying — and that's the move that defines this sermon.
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Sample · 2 Corinthians 11:16-33
Boasting That Sounds Like Defeat
Trinity Bible Church · Malachi Tresler
Malachi caught what most preachers miss — that Paul's boast is parody, sarcasm wielded as a weapon — and made that irony the interpretive spine of the whole sermon.
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What Preachers Are Saying

From preachers using The Sermon Coach.

"People want to be nice, they want to encourage you. But it takes a lot of effort and knowledge to give really specific feedback. That's where The Sermon Coach tool comes in — it's like having the best preachers listening to your sermon and taking the time to give specific feedback from their expert perspective. I found it immediately helpful, specifically challenging, and just so valuable. I'll still ask the staff and members of the church how the sermon landed with them, but I can add their encouragements to this deeper analysis."

Tyler, Lead Pastor in Phoenix, AZ

"The Sermon Coach has been an incredibly valuable tool for my growth as a preacher. It provides objective, real-time feedback that has helped me identify communication patterns, address blind spots, and take practical steps toward becoming a more effective communicator of God's Word. If you're looking for a next step in growing as a preacher, I highly recommend it."

Jon Demeter, Lead Pastor of Redemption Peoria

"Consistent, thorough, practical, and theologically-driven feedback is hard to come by. With The Sermon Coach, I don't have to wait until after the sermon is over to see what could be improved for next time. Instead, I can receive an in-depth analysis of how well the sermon is structured, focused, and Christ-exalting before I ever preach it. Being able to incorporate theologically rich and pastorally practical feedback from a consistently applied analytical tool into the sermon before it is ever delivered is a game-changer for our entire pastoral team."

Dr. Steven Wilhoit, Author, Pastor, and Church Planter of Dwell City Church in Bel Air, MD

"We all know that practice doesn't make perfect, but rather 'evaluated' practice makes perfect. If I could go back to my early days of pastoring, I would want to invest more time in having someone coach me to become a better preacher, teacher, and expositor of God's Word. Now with The Sermon Coach, it is possible to have regular, immediate evaluation of each message you preach. I wish I had this new tool available when I was pastoring and preaching week in and week out."

Dr. Paul R. Madson, Founder and President of Global Training Network

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Built By A Pastor For Pastors

Built by a preacher.

The Sermon Coach was built by Dr. Christopher M. Daukas, a former church planter in Phoenix, Arizona, with 25 years of pastoral ministry experience and 14 years as a Lead Pastor. Chris has been preaching for 25 years, has been shaped by these resources, and has spent the last several years sharpening his own preaching against the rubric this tool now offers other preachers.

The Sermon Coach is the actual rubric Chris uses on his own work, including the sample evaluations 1 and 2 above, which he ran on two of his own old sermons. It finds the soft spots in a sermon. He let it find his before he showed it to you.

Have questions? Email Chris directly at chris@sermoncoach.online. He reads everything.

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