Data, API and licences

Every text here is in the public domain. Our indexes and metadata are released under CC0. The archive is free, carries no advertising, and is non-commercial.

API

JSON, read-only, no key: https://thesermonarchive.org/wp-json/tsa/v1/

• /sermons?preacher=spurgeon&ref=Rom.8.28&q=grace&page=1 — list sermons
• /sermons/{preacher}/{slug} — one sermon with full text and references
• /preachers, /preachers/{slug}
• /passages/{osis} — sermons on a passage, e.g. /passages/Rom.8.28 or /passages/Ps.23
• /search?q=… — full-text search

Sources and credits

• Texts: public-domain editions (Passmore & Alabaster; Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers; Parker Society; Text Creation Partnership; Internet Archive scans), electronic transcriptions from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and others, each credited on the sermon page.
• Scripture references parsed with the Bible Passage Reference Parser (MIT).
• Bible text: King James Version (1769).

19,459 sermons · 323 preachers · 228,657 references · 84,572,512 words.