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SermonsVault

Vault

Your private library of reusable stories and teaching concepts, plus the Sermon Atlas and scripture passages.

Your vault is your private library — the stories, illustrations, quotes, and teaching concepts you save once and reuse across sermons for years. Save a story the first time you tell it, tag it, and it's there for every future sermon.

Your vault is private to you. No one else in your organization — including owners — can see a story or concept unless you explicitly share it.

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What's in your vault

The vault holds two kinds of items:

  • Stories — reusable illustrations: a personal anecdote, an illustration, a joke, a quote, a statistic, a piece of history, or a testimony.
  • Teaching concepts — reusable ideas and teaching points, including the raw note you first captured them from.

Add a story or concept

Open Sermons → Vault.
Add a story or a teaching concept and write it up.

Tag it — its kind, the themes it touches, and any passages it connects to — so you can find it later.

The vault with a story being added and tagged.

You can also create a vault item without leaving the canvas — the slash menu's vault submenu lets you quick-create a story or concept while you're writing. See the canvas.

Find and reuse items

Search and filter your vault by kind, theme, or passage. To use an item in a sermon, insert it as a block on the canvas — the block links back to the vault item, so edits stay consistent everywhere you've used it.

Share an item

Sharing is per-item and deliberate. When you share a story or concept with someone, they get access to that item — never your whole vault.

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