A free sermon notes template to help you apply each Sunday’s message to your week.
We won’t even ask for your email address or ask you to create an account. It’s all free to use and share.
Sermon Notes Tool
Use It on Your Phone
Fill it in above, during the sermon or later in the week. Your notes stay on your phone. To keep it one tap away, add it to your home screen. This one-minute video shows how.
Free Printable Sermon Notes
Print them, or fill them in on your computer and save them.
- Sermon Notes for Living Life Intentionally (adults, 3 pages). On Sunday, My Notes, and Through the Week. Printed double-sided, the first sheet goes to church with you and the second stays with you through the week. Download PDF (opens in a new tab)
- My Sermon Notes (ages 8 to 12, 2 pages). The same steps in simpler words, with a page for notes and a box to draw something from the message. Download PDF (opens in a new tab)
- My Sunday Notes (ages 4 to 7, 1 page). Draw the Bible story, circle what God is like, and color the border. A grown-up can help write “This week I can…” Download PDF (opens in a new tab)
How to Use It
On Sunday, three rules keep it honest:
- No vague answers. “I need to be better” or “trust God more” doesn’t count.
- Make it personal. Your situation, not general theology.
- Connect it to real life: a person, a moment or a behavior.
Throughout the week, come back to it using the four parts of The Process:
- Recognize where the old response showed up. It’s fine if you only noticed afterward.
- Examine what Scripture says about it, and what is true.
- Respond according to that truth, now or the next time it comes.
- Reinforce it: keep the verse before you, and keep practicing.
Before next Sunday, ask one more question: What has God been showing me this week?
See it in action on the phone:
Other Ways to Use It
Sunday is where it started, but a truth from God’s Word can land on you any day of the week. Use the same notes whenever it does:
- During your own Bible reading, when a verse stops you
- With a sermon or podcast you listen to during the week
- At small group or Bible study
- With a devotional, or a verse a friend sends you
Leave Church and Speaker blank when they don’t apply. Everything else works the same way.
Why It Matters
You hear a good sermon on Sunday. A few days later, most of it is gone. Not because it didn’t matter, but because nothing carried it into the rest of your week.
Scripture describes the change God wants to make in us this way: “Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.” (Romans 12:2 NLT) That kind of change doesn’t stay in the sanctuary. It happens on an ordinary day, in the places Sunday’s message was meant to reach.
Most sermon notes help you remember what was said. Our resources give you room for notes too, but they also help you do something with them. On Sunday, you take your notes, write down the one truth you heard, and name where it meets your life: a person, a moment, a behavior. Throughout the week, you practice it.
“For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.”
Philippians 2:13 NLT
He is the one at work. These tools are simply a way to pay attention and respond.
For Churches
You’re welcome to use these with your congregation, with any sermon or series. They’re free to copy, print and share, as long as the ministry’s name and address stay on them.
- Bulletin insert (two per page). Download PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Lobby flyer for the church lobby or bulletin board (8½ × 11, prints on any printer). Download PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Announcement slide for the church screen. Download image (opens in a new tab)
A paragraph for your church’s website:
Sermon Notes for Living Life Intentionally. A free sheet to help you live Sunday’s message every day. Write down what you heard, name where it meets your life, and practice it through the week. Download it free from Renewing Your Mind Discipleship Ministry.
Going Deeper
Milestones gives your group ten weeks to practice this together, with short teaching from Daniel Lafleur, author of Renewing Your Mind, and a Journal for each person.
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.