The difference
Search passages, themes and illustrations across years of preaching. Use that history to plan a series, prepare a draft, rehearse a message and compare what you preached with what you planned.
Search years of your church's sermons and use them to ground overviews and answers. Citations link supporting moments back to the message so readers can check them; always trust the sermon over the summary. Your team owns its drafts.
Record a run-through and get back timing, pacing, and a listener's read on your big idea — then share it with the team for feedback.
What you preach is folded back in and measured against what you planned — so each year builds on the last.
The same searchable archive serves members, groups, your teaching team, and researchers — and it grows every Sunday.
For your team
Rewind Studio is the staff teaching platform on top of your archive. Plan against real coverage — passages, themes, and gaps across years, not guesswork. Draft from your own past treatments instead of a blank page. Keep a teaching team consistent across speakers, because everyone preps from the same memory.
Studio gives your teaching team a working surface on top of everything the church has already preached: plan a series, draft against years of past messages, rehearse and get feedback, and study how your church teaches over time. Staff drafts and rehearsals stay staff-only — never member-visible, never indexed, never folded into the shared archive.
For the congregation
Give members a familiar place under your church’s name to revisit messages, study Scripture, keep their own notes and take the teaching into the week. Your church decides what is public.
Return to the big idea, points and Scripture in a focused reader. Listen or watch where recordings are available, and pick up where you left off.
Ask about a message or search across the archive. Follow cited answers back to the sermon and the moment behind them.
Keep private notes alongside a sermon, save a passage or clip, and return to what mattered. You choose whether to share a note.
Follow a seven-day devotional drawn from the message, with Scripture, reflection and prayer. Choose daily email reminders if they help your rhythm.
Use a discussion guide from the weekend sermon, or lead a live gathering through Scripture, discussion and prayer. Keep prayer requests and praises with your group.
Search by words, meaning or Scripture across your church’s archive. Open the sermon behind a result and hear it in context.
Sources and publishing
Connect the sources your church already uses. Choose automatic podcast audio, bring in Planning Center notes, and decide whether new sermons wait for staff review.
A podcast feed or a direct audio or video file link supplies the recording. Your YouTube channel helps Rewind find and preview new messages.
Turn on automatic transcription for exact matches between a waiting sermon and your podcast episode. Daily and church spending limits apply; uncertain matches wait for your team.
Connect Planning Center Services and choose which service types Rewind reads. Bring your team’s Big Idea, Scripture, points, questions and next steps into the sermon workflow. Rewind currently reads these plans and does not write to Planning Center.
Choose whether new sermons wait for your team to publish them. Review and edit the study content, while your church’s own notes keep their source.
Your name, colors and address give members a familiar place to return. Your team chooses whether sermons stay private or are publicly discoverable.
AI-written study material is identified in context. Church-authored notes and direct sermon quotes keep their source. Always trust the sermon over the summary.
Rewind MCP
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to search your church’s archive and read sermon transcripts with source links. Access is scoped to your church, can’t change your sermons and is revocable. The Claude Code plugin adds five preaching workflows for your team.
Ask what your church has preached on a passage, topic, or theme. Follow cited excerpts back to your own sermons.
Prep this week's message grounded in what your church has already preached, so it builds instead of repeating.
A passage brief led by your church's own treatment of the text — then scripture, then general study.
Map a series or a season with real coverage in view — building on your preaching history instead of repeating it.
Find stories and examples your church has used before, with attribution preserved verbatim.
Right inside the tools your team already uses.
Ask about MCPInstall in Claude Code
claude plugin marketplace add rewind-church/plugins
claude plugin install rewind@rewind-churchThen paste a token from Studio → Settings → Connections.
Trust
Your church's teaching and your members' study are handled with care. A few things we hold to:
Answers draw on your church's own sermons; cited findings link to their source moments. AI-written study material is identified as a study aid, while church-authored wording and sermon quotes keep their source.
Private church content stays separate. Your team chooses which sermons to make publicly available.
Questions and answers are private by default. Admins see activity counts and which sermons are used, and can review reported or unhelpful answers with their question context.
Drafts and rehearsals stay in Studio. Members do not see them, and they are not added to the shared sermon archive.
Export your personal data or request account deletion from Settings. Church owners and sole admins must first transfer responsibility or arrange church closure or reassignment with Rewind.
Rewind shows no ads and runs no third-party tracking pixels.
See what Rewind would look like built on your church's own preaching.