The Sermon Coach gives you substantive, structured feedback on your preaching — drawn from Chapell, Simeon Trust, Piper, Keller, Robinson, and 9Marks. Built by a pastor for pastors.
Your wife loves you and tells you what you want to hear. Your elders affirm. Your closest friends in ministry are slammed with their own week. The honest, structured feedback that made you grow in your homiletics class — the kind that called out what wasn't working and showed you how to fix it — quietly disappeared the moment you became the one doing the preaching.
And you've felt it. No one wants to risk offending you. The sermon you wish someone had pushed back on, the series where you suspected the application was thin but no one said. The moments you can feel yourself drifting into moralism, into book-report exposition, into preaching at people instead of to them without anyone willing to help you.
That's what The Sermon Coach does.
Paste your manuscript or transcript. Confirm the rubric. Receive a substantive assessment — scored, narrated, mapped, and prioritized — drawn from homiletical traditions that have shaped the best preaching of the last fifty years.
Scored on a 5-point scale across four categories: Text & Theology, Structure & Craft, Application & Audience Connection, and Ecclesial & Spiritual.
Simple average and weighted, with Fallen Condition Focus, gospel clarity, and application to the present audience counted double. The goal is increasing faithfulness.
Specific feedback for each category — citing your sermon directly, highlighting the homiletical principle at stake. Not generic preaching advice.
Three per sermon, with concrete next steps you can act on this week.
A visual timeline of your sermon's emotional beats — lament, exultation, warning, comfort, awe — assessed against your pacing. Reveals mismatches you can't see from the pulpit.
Ranked by leverage. What to work on for next Sunday, plus rewrites of one or two weakest moments in your voice, not a generic example.
Every criterion in The Sermon Coach traces back to a named principle in one of four sources. When the tool tells you your Fallen Condition Focus is drifting, it's holding you to the standard Chapell himself set.
Real evaluations of real sermons. These are what every preacher who uses The Sermon Coach receives.
The Sermon Coach is designed for preachers who take their craft seriously and don't have a structured feedback loop. Especially:
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. If the rubric is going to find your Fallen Condition Focus drifting, you should know it has already found his.
Have questions? Email Chris directly at chris@sermoncoach.online. He reads everything.
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