The sermon canvas

The canvas is where you actually write a sermon. Instead of one long document, your sermon is made of blocks — a heading here, a teaching point there, a scripture reading, a story from your vault — that you can add, reorder, and reshape freely. This guide covers the whole builder: the layout, how to add and arrange blocks, formatting, and the actions along the right edge.

In this article

• The layout
• Tabs across the top
• Adding blocks
• Block types
• Pulling in material from your vault
• Reordering and reshaping blocks
• Formatting text
• The right-edge actions

The layout

When you open a sermon, you land on the Canvas tab. The builder has three parts:

• The center is the canvas itself — your blocks, top to bottom.
• The top is a row of tabs (Canvas, Settings, Slides, and more) for switching views of the same sermon.
• The right edge is a stack of action buttons — Share, Insights, Slides, Social, and Export.

A brand-new sermon opens with a single empty heading so you can start typing right away.

Tabs across the top

The tabs all show the same sermon in different ways:

• Canvas — the block editor (where you spend most of your time).
• Settings — the sermon's title, series, key passage, schedule, and more. See Sermon settings.
• Slides — the slides you've grouped from your blocks. See Slides.
• Social — social posts you've curated from your blocks. See Social posts.
• Outline — a collapsed, headings-only view of the sermon.
• Script — the full manuscript reading view.
• Notes — your internal notes (kept out of exports).
• Comments — discussion left by people you've shared with.

Adding blocks

There are three ways to add a block:

Block types

Blocks fall into a few families. You'll reach for the sermon-domain blocks most.

Writing your sermon

• Point — a teaching point.
• Transition — a bridge between sections.
• Application — a real-world takeaway.
• Prayer — with a kind (opening, closing, during, or silent).
• Interaction — an audience moment (stand, respond, turn to a neighbor, discuss, altar call).
• Definition — a term you want to define.
• Pause — a planned silence, with a duration.
• Note — an internal note that's hidden from exports.

Document formatting

• Text, Headings 1–3, bulleted and numbered lists, to-do checkboxes, quote, callout, and divider.
• Toggle headings and lists — collapsible sections that hide the blocks beneath them until expanded.

Scripture and media

• Scripture reading — an authored passage for reading aloud.
• Image and Video — placeholders to plan visuals alongside your text.

From your vault (see the next section)

• Story, Concept, and Passage.

Pulling in material from your vault

Your vault holds the stories and teaching concepts you reuse. You can drop them straight onto the canvas as Story, Concept, and Passage blocks.

Reordering and reshaping blocks

• Reorder — Grab a block's drag handle and drag it up or down. The canvas reflows as you move it.
• Turn into — Open a block's menu and choose Turn into to change its type without retyping (e.g. a Text block into a Point).
• Duplicate / Delete — Both live in the same block menu.

Formatting text

Select any text to bring up the formatting toolbar: Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Code, Link, and Highlight. You can also leave a Comment on the selection for anyone you've shared the sermon with.

The right-edge actions

The five buttons stacked on the right edge open the tools you use to share, refine, and deliver a sermon. Each has its own guide:

Related articles

• Sermon settings
• Sermons
• Vault