About this design
Where the Sermon style comes from, and what it signals.
Your sermon slides go up on a screen in a dim sanctuary, and some of the congregation reads them from forty rows back. This theme uses a deep slate background (#1b1d24) so the screen doesn't glare, sets scripture larger than any other text in the deck, and gives each slide one thing to read: a verse, a point or a next step.
The signature is the season band, a 14px strip down the left edge in the liturgical color of the Sunday. Green #7fb08a covers Ordinary Time, purple #a88bd8 Advent and Lent, gold #e3b861 Christmas and Easter, and red #d9674e Pentecost. The same color marks scripture references and outline numerals, so you change one hex to move the deck to a new season. Cardo, a serif designed for biblical and scholarly text, sets scripture and titles; Outfit sets the supporting lines.
Use it for Sunday sermons, sermon series, midweek studies and small-group guides. The slide order follows the way preachers build a message: series title, reading, big idea, three points in Roman numerals, a recap, and a response slide with actions for the week. The examples quote public domain translations such as the King James Version, so you can project them without a license.
Use it for
- Sunday sermon slides on a sanctuary screen
- Sermon series that share one title card across the weeks
- Scripture readings split across slides so the congregation can follow
- Advent, Lent and Easter services that follow the church calendar
- Small-group and Bible study guides built from the Sunday message
Skip it for
- Youth-group game nights and Bible quizzes; Quiz Night fits that energy
- Daytime children's lessons in a bright room; Chalkboard or Syllabus reads better with the lights on
- Church budget or annual meeting reports; Annual Report handles five-year numbers and tables
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Sermon' theme, projection-first slides for a church service. Background: deep slate (#1b1d24) on every slide, edge to edge; the rare panel is #252833 and dividers are 1px #3a3e4b rules. Text is warm white #f5f1e8 for titles and scripture, #d9d4c8 for supporting lines and #9a968c for small captions. Typography: 'Cardo' (Google Fonts) 400 for titles, scripture, references and Roman numerals; 'Outfit' 400/500 for supporting lines, next steps and captions. The signature is the season band: a 14px vertical band down the left edge of every slide in the liturgical color of the Sunday, and the same color marks every scripture reference and numeral. Use Ordinary Time green #7fb08a by default; Advent and Lent purple #a88bd8; Christmas and Easter gold #e3b861; Pentecost red #d9674e. Ask which Sunday it is and use exactly one season color for the whole deck. Content is left-aligned with an 86px left margin past the band. Series title slide: church name small in #9a968c at the top, the series and part ('Abide, part 2 of 4') in the season color, the sermon title in Cardo at 72 to 80px, the passage in Cardo 30px in the season color, and service times at the bottom. Scripture slides: the reference in Cardo 30px season color, the verse in Cardo 36 to 40px with line-height 1.4, verse numbers as small #9a968c superscripts, the translation named in 16px Outfit beneath; 40 words maximum per slide, splitting long passages across slides marked '(continued)'. Big idea slide: one sentence in Cardo 50 to 56px with its anchor verse beneath. Point slides: a Cardo Roman numeral (I, II, III) at 64px in the season color with 'of III' in #9a968c, the point in Cardo 44 to 50px, one supporting line in Outfit 26px. Outline recap: the three points stacked on 1px rules, numeral left, point in Cardo 32px, reference right. Response slide: 'This week' then two to four actions in Outfit 28px, each on a rule with a small square in the season color, never numbered. Footer only on content slides: sermon title bottom-left and the reference bottom-right in 14 to 16px. Body text never goes below 26px; only footers and captions go smaller. Use public domain translations (KJV, WEB) in examples. Strictly avoid: stock photos of sunsets, hands or crosses, photo backgrounds under text, lens flares, script or handwritten fonts, clip-art crosses and doves, more than one season color per deck, gradients, drop shadows, centered paragraphs, full paragraphs of sermon notes, bullet walls, text under 26px outside the footer, all-caps titles, and copyrighted song lyrics or modern translations pasted without permission.
Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHubHow to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Sermon deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Sermon on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Sermon presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Sermon presentation design prompt in practice.
