Guides

Add your sermons

Paste it, upload a Word file, or let your AI tidy it first.

1. Open Sermons on your dashboard and choose Add a sermon. Give it a title. The date, passage, series and video link are optional.
2. Paste the text, or upload the file. Word (.docx), text (.txt), Markdown (.md) and saved web pages work. Headings, bold, italics and lists come across.
3. Want it tidier first? Use your own AI. Copy the prompt below into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, paste your sermon after it, and paste what comes back into your site.
4. Save. It’s live right away. Untick “Show on my site” to keep a sermon as a draft. Edit or delete any sermon any time.

I'm going to give you my sermon. Turn it into clean Markdown for my website.
Rules:
- Keep every word of my teaching. Do not add, summarize or rewrite my content.
- Put the sermon title on the first line as "# Title".
- Use "## " for main points and "### " for sub-points.
- Use "- " for bullet lists and "1. " for numbered lists.
- Put Scripture quotes on their own line starting with "> ", followed by the reference.
- Remove notes to myself, slide cues (like "[SLIDE]" or "NEXT SLIDE"), and timing notes.
- Give me only the Markdown, with nothing before or after it.

Here is my sermon:

Send sermons from Google Drive automatically

Write in Google Docs as usual and your site updates itself every hour.

1. Make a folder in Google Drive for finished sermons. Open it. The folder ID is the last part of the address, after /folders/.
2. Make your private key. On your dashboard, open Sermons, then Automation, and choose Make my key. Your script appears with the key already in it.
3. Go to script.google.com and choose New project. Delete what’s there, paste your script, and paste your folder ID where it says PASTE_YOUR_FOLDER_ID_HERE. Save.
4. Choose turnOn from the list at the top, then Run. Google asks you to allow it to read your Drive and connect to the internet. That’s the script reading your folder and sending to your site. Allow it.
5. That’s it. Every hour it sends new or changed Docs in that folder. Name a Doc “2026-10-12 Hope in the Storm” and the date shows too. Turn the key off on your dashboard to stop it any time.

Use your own domain

Your site works today at parkermanuel.com/p/your-name. Here’s how to put your own name on it.

1. Buy the domain you want. Cloudflare, Namecheap, Squarespace Domains and Porkbun all work. A .com is usually $10 to $20 a year. It’s yours, in your name.
2. Turn on forwarding to your site. In your domain settings, find “Forwarding” or “Redirect” and point it to your parkermanuel.com/p/ address. Choose a permanent (301) redirect. Now anyone who types your domain lands on your site.
3. Tell me your domain on your dashboard. Under Details, add it in “My own domain”. When full custom domains open (your domain shown in the address bar), sites that asked go first. You keep your domain either way.
4. Leaving later is easy. Your domain and content are yours. Download everything and point your domain wherever you like.

Get an email address at your domain

So people can write to you@yourname.com.

1. Free and simple: email forwarding. Most domain companies (Cloudflare, Namecheap, Porkbun) forward you@yourname.com to the Gmail or other inbox you already use, free.
2. A full inbox: Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. Usually $6 to $8 a month per person. Both have nonprofit programs, so check whether your church qualifies for a discount.
3. Add the records they give you. Your email provider gives you a few “DNS records”. Copy them into your domain settings exactly as shown. Allow up to a day.
4. Put it on your site. On your dashboard, set your Contact email to the new address.

Want to host it yourself instead?

Download your content in Settings, then follow the self-hosting guide. It includes a prompt you give your own AI to build and run your copy.