Why we called it Sown
In Matthew 13, Jesus tells of a farmer who scatters seed. Some falls on the path, some on rocky ground, some among thorns — and some on good soil, where it grows and bears fruit.
“What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
The seed and the soil
Every Sunday, a sermon is sown. By Wednesday, much of it can be hard to recall — not because the word is weak, but because life crowds in, the way the thorns do in the parable.
Sown exists to keep that word within reach all week: notes to come back to, a transcript to search, questions for a small group, and answers drawn from what your church has actually preached.
Sown can’t make anything grow. Paul said it plainly: “I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase” (1 Corinthians 3:6). Growth is God’s work, and care for people belongs to people. Sown is a tool for the ordinary work in between — helping people return to what they heard.
Where it started
Sown began as a sermon site for one local church in Ontario, built so people could come back to Sunday’s message during the week. A second church asked for the same thing.
Sown is that work made ready for any church: the same notes, transcripts, Scripture index and Selah, the sermon assistant, with each church’s own name and colours, and with review and safety built in from the start.
What we believe about tools like this
- The sermon belongs to the church that preached it.
- Sown serves your preaching. It never replaces it or speaks over it.
- AI drafts; people decide.
- Your team reviews what is published in your church’s name.
- Answers should show their sources.
- If Selah says your church taught something, it shows you where.
- Members are not the product.
- No ads, no member accounts, and no record on our servers of what anyone asks.
- Pastoral care is for people.
- Software can point someone to help. It shouldn’t pretend to be it.
Want to talk? Write to hello@joinsown.com or request a demo.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.
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