Prepare the message. Lead the service. Sit at the bedside. Same pastor, three rooms, and every week asks for all three at once. Ministry Pass gives you a repeatable system for the message and the Sunday service; the Handbook Trio equips you for the room the calendar never warns you about. One calling, finally resourced in every room it shows up.
Ministry Pass handles the sermon prep. Three Handbook Trio helps prepare you for everything else.
Sunday comes with great regularity and great speed.
The pressure to study, plan, prepare, and preach a sermon that is not just true but insightful is a pressure few people understand.
Then there’s the hour the sermon sits inside. The announcements, the transitions, the welcome, the offering. Somebody has to decide what each part is for, and whether it’s clearing the way for the message or competing with it.
And then the phone rings. A church member is in the hospital. A family just lost someone. Someone is asking hard questions about God that deserve more than a rushed answer.
You close the commentary. You pick up the phone. You go.
That’s the calling. Sermon prep, Sunday planning, and pastoral care are not competing ministries. They’re the same ministry, in three different rooms. The pastor at the desk on Tuesday is the same pastor on the platform Sunday morning and the same pastor at the bedside on Wednesday.
Every room asks everything of you. Every room deserves a pastor who walks in prepared.
You’re not trying to escape the work. You love the work. But the study, the sanctuary, and the hospital room all want your full attention in the same week, and you deserve a way to honor all three without any of them suffering.
A library of sermon prep resources built by pastors, for pastors. Over 2,000 sermon series with research, talking points, and illustrations already built in. Pre-built sermon calendars. A searchable illustrations library. Graphics, videos, and tools like Sermonary and the Series Planner to keep everything in one place. Everything you need so you’re never starting from scratch on a Monday morning.
Preaching well fifty-two weeks a year, without running dry, takes a system seminary never gave you. The Preacher’s Handbook delivers it: yearly and seasonal planning, sermon series frameworks, six structure templates, a 115-topic idea library, and ready-made scripts for weddings and funerals. Clarity and confidence, week after week.
Most Sunday services were never designed. They accumulated from habits nobody remembers choosing. Crafting Your Sunday Service gives you seven questions that define what each part of the hour is for, so your announcements, worship, and transitions clear the way for the message instead of competing with it.
The call never comes at a convenient time. The Pastoral Care Handbook gives you scripted answers to the hardest questions, prayer prompts for six specific situations, a visitation guide, and email templates for medical crises so you walk in prepared instead of improvising, ready to hand to your team.
Ministry Pass prepares you for Tuesday’s study.
The trio prepares you for every other room.
“Being a bi-vocational pastor who does most of the creative work as well as the sermon planning, this helped bring branding and clarity. It saved me hours of design and (poor) creative work on my own.”
“Ministry Pass gives me a springboard. It gets my mind thinking. It gives me a skeleton. It gives me ideas I can roll with and go in any direction that fits my needs. It gives me a starting point instead of starting from complete scratch.”
“As a bi-vocational pastor Ministry Pass has been a massive help to me. It is completely worth the value and I can’t recommend it enough.”
“The fact that you guys give ideas and resources but still leave the study work to us. I do not want a downloaded sermon. I appreciate the help your product gives.”
Ministry Pass is a teaching resource and multimedia service for pastors, specializing in high-quality sermon series materials and promotional artwork. We help church leaders:
Adhering to conservative, orthodox Christian beliefs, we provide resources that serve as a flexible framework for pastors, allowing for specific theological nuances. Our theological foundation is summarized in the Apostles’ Creed.
No. Ministry Pass provides research materials, talking points, illustrations, and big ideas that serve as a launching pad for your own study. You bring your voice, your context, and your community. We give you a head start so you’re not building from scratch.
Plans start at $49/month for our basic resource library and go up to $199/month for a comprehensive suite to enhance your digital ministry and outreach. Most churches prefer our Sermon Suite, which includes full access to Sermon Series and Illustrations libraries, training materials, Church Docs & Forms, Sermonary (our sermon writing tool for pastors), and more.
Our Ministry Pass membership offers three plans to suit your church’s needs:
Impact Plan: This comprehensive plan includes everything in Grow, plus Plan Your Visit church tools, Automated Follow-Up Emails for church guests, an Online church Bookstore, Ministry Event marketing pages, Church Landing pages, and Digital Outreach resources.
Start your free 14-day trial of Ministry Pass and all three handbooks — the Preacher’s Handbook, Crafting Your Sunday Service, and the Pastoral Care Handbook — are yours to download and keep, even if you decide Ministry Pass isn’t for you.
After your free trial you’ll continue to have access to Ministry Pass Sermon Suite at $99/mo.
Ministry Pass Sermon Suite Plan begins with a 14-Day Free Trial. When you start your free trial you’ll receive access to all features included with Sermon Suite.
After 14 days your subscription will renew at $99/mo.
Start your free 14-day trial and get a repeatable system for sermon prep and Sunday planning — plus The Handbook Trio to equip you for the message, the service, and the moments that matter most.
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