Preach Plan vs Sermons of Light
Sermons of Light is a sermon workspace with a preaching calendar inside it. Preach Plan is a preaching calendar and nothing else, built for a whole team. Sermons of Light walks one sermon from passage to pulpit: a study desk, outline and manuscript, a Saturday-night reread, rehearsal with a teleprompter, and follow-up pages for the congregation, with a calendar, series planning and a history of what you have preached alongside. Neither tool will write your sermon. If you want one place for the whole week's work and the calendar is a part of it, Sermons of Light does more, and this page will not pretend otherwise. If the calendar is the part your church is short of, and several people need to work from it, that is what Preach Plan is for.
Feature by feature
Checked October 3, 2026 against the Sermons of Light pricing page and its tour, which are the authority on what it includes and costs, not this table. Where a row says "No equivalent published", we looked on those pages and did not find it. Every price on these pages is re-checked each quarter.
| What you are trying to do | Preach Plan | Sermons of Light |
|---|---|---|
| Use AI without it writing the sermon for you | Yes: it sorts ideas and asks questions back, and will not write a point or the claim | Yes: "This is not a sermon machine." Helpers wait behind a button, and one switch turns them all off |
| Study the passage in the same place you write | No: it holds the passage reference, not a study desk | Yes: the text, background, original-language help and cross-references |
| Get a review of the manuscript before Sunday | No | Yes: a five-part reread: the gospel, the listener, the shape, the heart and the clock |
| Rehearse with a teleprompter | No: print or export and take that in | Yes: a rehearsal mode that follows your voice |
| Make follow-up pages for the congregation | No | Yes: recaps, reflection questions and small-group material |
| Follow a lectionary | No: the church year's days are there to switch on, but the readings are yours to type in | Yes: "Follow the appointed lectionary" |
| Try it without a card | No: seven days free, with a card at checkout | Yes: 14 days, no card required |
| Plan upcoming Sundays and series | Yes: one line a Sunday, series as headings | Yes: upcoming Sundays, passages and series in one place |
| See which books you have and have not preached | Yes: the whole canon, shaded | Yes: a map of where you have preached |
| Move a series and see what it collides with first | Yes: before anything changes | No equivalent published |
| See who is carrying the year | Yes: each preacher's Sundays, share and longest run, with blackout dates | No equivalent published |
| Put the preaching dates in everyone's own calendar app | Yes: a feed per person, kept current | No equivalent published |
| Bring in years of preaching history from a spreadsheet | Yes: Excel, CSV or paste, several years at once | No equivalent published |
| Share with a team | One calendar; Admin, Write or Read-only, and read-only is free | Church plan: four accounts, with Pastor, Staff and Viewer roles |
| Get everything back out | CSV, iCalendar or a full backup, and for 30 days after a subscription ends | Every manuscript plus a full data file, even if a subscription lapses |
| Cost | $19.99 a month, or $199.99 a year, seven days free first | $19 a month or $190 a year for one pastor; $49 a month for a church of four accounts |
One tool for the week, or one plan for the team?
The honest way to choose is to ask where your preaching week goes wrong.
If you preach most Sundays, you plan alone, and what you want is one quiet place to go from the passage to the pulpit, Sermons of Light is built for exactly that, and its calendar will hold your year well enough. Paying for a second tool to do what its calendar already does would be money spent on nothing.
If the trouble is that the year is not settled, several people preach, and the worship leader and the kids ministry are planning from last month's version, then the calendar is not one feature among many. It is the thing everyone works from. The plan is what protects the study, and it only protects it when the whole team can see it, trust it, and change it without breaking it. That is the job Preach Plan does, and it does no other.
The speakers view headed 10 people in the pulpit this year, with 31 most Sundays, 58 percent their share, and 0 worth a look. Adam has 31 Sundays at 58 percent with a longest run of 4; Mike 7 at 13 percent; Jim 5 at 9 percent; Bishop 3 at 6 percent; Corey 2 at 4 percent; Jason 1 at 2 percent.
Pick Sermons of Light if
- You want one tool for the whole week: study, outline, manuscript, rehearsal and follow-up in one place.
- Your church follows a lectionary. It says it can follow the appointed readings; Preach Plan leaves them to you.
- You want a reread before Sunday and a teleprompter to rehearse with.
- You want to try it without a card. Its trial asks for none.
Pick Preach Plan if
- The calendar is the shared thing. Several preachers, and staff who plan their own work from yours.
- You want to see what a change costs before you make it, when a series moves or a guest takes a Sunday.
- You want the load visible: who is preaching how often, and who is away.
- You already write the sermon somewhere you like, and only need the year planned around it.
Can you use both?
You could, but for most churches it would be one tool too many, because Sermons of Light has a calendar of its own. The combination makes sense for a team where one person writes in Sermons of Light and the whole staff plans from Preach Plan. There is no connection between them; the handoff is a date and a passage.
Last updated October 2026.