Skip to content

Your sermon
stays yours.

Study Scripture with Aide beside your notes. Prepare your sermon, then turn it into sermon slides, Sunday School lessons, Youth lessons and Bible Studies for your church.

Eden Valley ChurchSaved
This Sunday

Who Jesus Calls Blessed

  1. 01
    Empty hands receive a kingdom
  2. 02
    God keeps the tears
  3. 03
    The meek inherit what the strong seize
Matthew 5:1

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him.

Built for faithful ministry.

Scripture is the final authority here. The sermon is yours. We help turn it into the lessons and slides your church needs.

Turn your sermon notes into a clear outline.

Pastorly brings your points and Scripture references into one outline, keeping your wording and order. Review it before making your slides and lessons.

Your pointsThey stay as you wrote them, in your order.
What Pastorly read

Who Jesus Calls Blessed

Matthew 5:1–12 · 3 points
  1. 01
    Empty hands receive a kingdomMatthew 5:3 · 2 sub-pointsPoor in spirit means bankrupt, not modest.Blessed is not the same as happy.
  2. 02
    God keeps the tearsMatthew 5:4 · 1 sub-pointThe comfort is passive. God is the one who comforts.
  3. 03
    The meek inherit what the strong seizeMatthew 5:5
Left outA line it could not place is listed here, so nothing goes missing.
Not in the outline

One line of your notes has no place in the outline.

salt and light, save for next week

ThenEdit your outline, or go on to the slides.
Nothing is made until you agree with what Pastorly read.Lay out my slide points

See how Pastorly keeps your sermon notes.

Every line you wrote, and where it went.

Your notesMatthew 5
Select a line to see where it was used.
Empty hands receive a kingdomMatthew 5:3

Aide tells you when a word study
does not hold.

Five questions and answers from a real conversation, shortened. The note beside it is what Aide was reading. See how Aide helps with sermon study.

I have always heard that makarios means a settled blessedness the world cannot touch, deeper than happiness. Is that the Greek doing the work, or is that preachers doing it?

Aide

Mostly preachers, and one preacher in particular. BDAG glosses makarios as blessed, fortunate, happy, usually in the sense of a privileged recipient of divine favour. You will not find settled, unshakeable or untouchable in the lexicons.

The line descends from William Barclay on Matthew: joy that is serene and untouchable, independent of the chances and changes of life. A good sentence. It stops being defensible when the attribution is sanded off and it becomes what the Greek means.

And watch the etymology move. If a word study begins with a root, close the book.

Aide searched the web for this answer.

Sermon slides from your own notes.

Empty hands receive a kingdomMatthew 5:3

Creation VistaPhotographic

Export your slides to PowerPoint or PDF.

Choose a slide style.

See how Pastorly makes your sermon slides.

One sermon. Every room.

Sunday School, youth and Bible study lessons that teach what was preached. See how Pastorly makes Sunday School lessons.

Sunday School leader guide

Jesus Heals a Woman and Raises Jairus’s Daughter

Primaries · ages 6 to 9 · 45 minutes
The heart of it

Jesus has authority over sickness and death, and He gives Himself to those who come to Him with empty hands.

The plan · 45 minutes
Welcome5 min
The story10 min
Make or move15 min
The heart of it5 min
The memory verse5 min
Pray5 min
Memory verse
Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”Mark 5:36 NIV
Said together

When I am afraid or sad about someone who is sick, I will pray and ask Jesus to help me trust him.

Youth leader guide

Two Daughters and the Lord of Life

Sunday Youth · ages 15 to 17 · 60 minutes
The heart of it

Jesus has authority over sickness and death, and He gives Himself to those who come to Him with empty hands.

The plan · 60 minutes
Recall5 min
Open the Bible10 min
Teach15 min
Talk it through20 min
I will5 min
Pray5 min
Recall

What is the longest you have waited for something? A reply, a result, a person.

Written privately

When I get news this week that scares me, I will pray it to Jesus before I take it to my friends.

Bible Study leader guide

Two Daughters and the Lord of Life

Any adult group · 75 minutes
The heart of it

Jesus has authority over sickness and death, and He gives Himself to those who come to Him with empty hands.

The plan · 75 minutes
Reconnect7 min
Read7 min
Observe14 min
Interpret20 min
Apply13 min
I will7 min
Pray7 min
Interpret

Why did the woman come from behind, in the crowd, instead of asking Jesus face to face?

Asked at the close

When I find myself thinking God has been late with a prayer I have carried for years, I will come to him again with empty hands and ask him to help me keep trusting.

Each one exports to Word or PDF.

Settled where Scripture is settled.
Yours where your church is.

What does not move

Scripture is the final authority.

One God in three Persons.

Christ crucified in an atoning death, bodily raised, and returning.

Jesus Christ is the only Savior.

Scripture stands above everything else Aide draws on.

Your church’s tradition shapes what comes under it.

Anything found on the web comes last.

Written in your church’s words
Your point, unchanged

Empty hands receive a kingdom

Matthew 5:3

Stop trying to earn what only grace can give, and come to Jesus with empty hands to receive His kingdom.

Published. by Pastorly

Writing for the church’s week, and for the questions a week of ministry raises.

All writing
Field guide

How to Check AI Bible Answers Before You Teach

November 10, 2026 · AI and ministry · 4 min read
Field guide

Family Discipleship: Faith Conversations After Sunday

November 2, 2026 · Teaching and discipleship · 4 min read
Field guide

Sermon Preparation for Bivocational Pastors

October 25, 2026 · Sermon preparation · 4 min read
2 Timothy 4:2

Preach the word.

That part is yours. Pastorly does the work around it, so the hours go back to your study and your people.