A Sermon a Day

A place for a community to read one sermon each day, and to stay close while doing it.

Each day you read the sermon, then write your reflection and your prayer and share them with your community. It is how you encourage one another and keep one another accountable: what the others have written opens to you once you have shared your own.

What you share is for your own community. Other communities on this website cannot see it.

There are 365 days in this series, with one sermon for each day. The sermons are by Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910), a Baptist minister in Manchester. They are taken from four volumes of his book Expositions of Holy Scripture, first published in London by Hodder and Stoughton between about 1906 and 1910: Ezekiel, Daniel and the Minor Prophets with St. Matthew chapters 1 to 8; Chronicles to Ecclesiastes; the Psalms; and Second Corinthians to First Timothy. Each day names the volume its sermon comes from.

You are also highly encouraged to memorise one Scripture verse a day. Each day ends with a verse to learn, with a Test yourself button to check how much you remember.

Put it on your phone's home screen

On an iPhone: open it in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen, and open it from the new icon.

On Android: open it in Chrome and choose Add to Home screen.

Do this first, then enter your community code from the new icon, so that your phone remembers it there.

Request a new community

A community code costs $48, paid once. When you send this request your card is authorised for $48 but not yet charged. The organiser reviews every request: if it is approved, the $48 is charged, the community code you chose below starts working, and you are told by email; if it is not approved, the authorisation is released and you pay nothing. You will hear either way within 7 days.

Please read the community rules before you send a request. They apply to every member of your community.

Community name Your email address Which country is your community in? How many people do you expect to take part? How do the members of your community know one another? Anything else the organiser should know? (optional)

Anything that helps the organiser consider your request. For example: the name of your church or organisation and its website, your role in it, or someone who can vouch for your community.

Choose a community code

At least 8 characters. Make it hard to guess, give it only to your members, and keep a note of it.

Payment is not open yet. For now you can ask for a free trial instead: nothing is charged and no card is needed. The organiser reviews every free-trial request in the same way, and the same community rules apply. If your request is approved, you will receive an email from asermonadayadmin@gmail.com.

Put it on your phone's home screen

A line to carry

Scripture memorisation

My highlights

Share with your community

Reflections

Prayers

Worship

Community rules

Personal key

All 365 days