You don't have to
preach alone.
A community for preachers who are serious about the craft.
Most preachers prepare in isolation — borrowing from podcasts, patching together a process, hoping Sunday goes well. The Academy exists to change that. One framework. Real community. Training that actually sticks.
I want my final sermon to be my very best sermon. That's why I built this.
— Dr. Jonathan McClintock · Clear Preaching AcademyThe truth about preaching alone.
You love preaching. But if you're honest, there are weeks you struggle to find that one passage to preach. That one idea to build a sermon around. And the preparation was a draining search for substance. There are Sundays you walk off the platform and wonder if the sermon actually landed, because it felt like the delivery fell flat. Moments where you're not sure what went wrong — only that something did.
Most preachers never get real feedback. They don't have a framework they fully trust. They don't have a community of people who understand what Sunday costs.
You've been doing this by yourself for long enough.
Whether you're two years in or twenty, whether you trained in seminary or figured it out on the job — the Clear Preaching Academy was built for preachers who are serious about the craft and ready to stop going it alone.
Everything in your membership.
One membership. Four complete courses at launch (more added on an ongoing basis). A community that makes you better.
The Training Portal
Structured video courses built around one clear framework — Big Idea preaching that actually sticks. Work at your own pace, return as often as you need. Every course translates directly to Sunday.
4 complete courses available at launch, with more added on an ongoing basis.The Academy Community
A private space to ask questions, share work, and learn alongside other preachers who take their craft seriously. Monthly Q&A with Jonathan. Live cohort access when available. You'll be surprised how much you grow when you're not learning in isolation.
Sermon Research Tools
Purpose-built tools for sermon research and idea development — built around the Clear Preaching Framework so your prep and your process speak the same language.
FREE Access to ONE Clarity Audit Upon Joining
Submit your sermon manuscript or outline and get it back with detailed written feedback on your Big Idea, structure, and clarity. It's the fastest way to close the gap between the sermon you're preaching and the one you meant to preach.
Academy members ONLYWhat changes when you join the Academy.
Instead of reinventing your process every week... you'll have a framework that works every time.
Instead of preaching around the text instead of through it... you'll know exactly how to find the one idea that drives everything.
Instead of wondering why it didn't land... you'll have the language to diagnose it and fix it.
Instead of figuring it out alone... you'll have a community of preachers who get it.
What preachers are saying
The Clarity Audit gave me exactly what I needed — live comments, specific notes, and clear direction on how to make my Take-Home Truth actually land. More clarity is what I've been working toward, and this moved the needle.
— Aaron B.
"Your congregation deserves a preacher who never stops growing." — Jonathan McClintock, Clear Preaching Academy
One rate. Everything included.
Join as a founding member and lock your rate for life.
Founding Rate
$19
/ month · locked for life
- Full training portal access
- Academy community & monthly Q&A
- Live cohort participation
- 50% off Clarity Audits
- Rate locked — never increases
Standard Rate
$39
/ month
- Full training portal access
- Academy community & monthly Q&A
- Live cohort participation
- 50% off Clarity Audits
No contracts. Cancel anytime. The founding rate closes permanently when all 50 spots are filled.
The Gap Every Preacher Knows
You work hard. But something still gets lost.
You spent hours in the text. You studied, prepared, and prayed. You stood up Sunday and said something you really meant. But somewhere between your study, the pulpit, and their seats — something got lost.
Maybe you recognized it in the moment. Maybe you felt it on the way home. Maybe you've just quietly carried it — the nagging sense that what you're preaching and what they're hearing aren't quite the same thing.
The theological concept that made perfect sense in your study landed as fog in the room.
The structure that felt logical in your notes felt scattered from the pew.
The illustration you thought was perfect fell flat somewhere in transmission.
"Good sermon, Pastor" on the way out — and still not knowing if they heard what you meant to say.
Clarity in preaching is not just about speaking well. It's about being understood. And being understood is a discipline — one that operates at every stage of the preaching process, from the moment you open the text to the moment you close your Bible.
The Clear Preaching Academy exists to give you that discipline — systematically, practically, and for as long as you preach.
Why the Academy?
Your preaching deserves more than figuring it out alone.
The Clear Preaching Academy gives you the framework, the feedback, and the community to preach with clarity and confidence — every single Sunday.
I'm Ready to JoinWhat's Inside
A training environment built for the working preacher.
One membership. Everything you need. Grows with you every week.
The Training Portal
Structured video courses built around one clear framework — Big Idea preaching that actually sticks. Work at your own pace, return as often as you need. Every course connects directly to Sunday.
4 complete courses available at launch, with more added on an ongoing basis.Courses at Every Level
From focused skill-building courses to deep-dive framework training — the Academy meets you where you are and moves you forward. Whether you've been preaching two years or twenty, clarity is always the right goal.
Community & Q&A Calls
A private community of preachers who take the craft seriously. Monthly Q&A Zoom calls with Jonathan. Live cohort participation when available. The kind of support that makes growth actually stick — because you're not doing it alone.
Members get ONE FREE Clarity Audit
Submit your sermon manuscript or outline and get it back with detailed written feedback on your Big Idea, structure, and clarity. Personalized, specific, and actionable — on your actual preaching.
Non-Members pay $125.Who Built It
From both sides of the desk.
Preacher · Professor · Church Planter
Dr. Jonathan McClintock
I've spent the last sixteen years teaching preaching at the university level — and preaching in a local church every single week. That means I know what the framework looks like in the classroom, and I know what it costs when it breaks down on Sunday morning.
My doctoral research focused specifically on oral clarity in preaching — one of the most underexplored areas in homiletical literature. The Clear Preaching Framework came out of that research, thirty years of pulpit experience, and more conversations with preachers than I can count — at every stage, in every context.
The Academy is not theory disconnected from the pulpit. And it's not mere pragmatism disconnected from serious scholarship. It's both — because effective preaching requires both.
Shaped by scholarship. Proven in the pulpit.
How It Compares
What the Academy gives you that nothing else does.
Training you can use this Sunday.
Every course, every resource, every tool is built for application — not just comprehension. Most preaching resources stop at inspiration. This one doesn't.
Training that doesn't end when the semester does.
Seminary ends. The Academy doesn't. New courses, new content, and ongoing community — as long as you preach. Most courses have a finish line. This one grows with you.
A framework built on doctoral research and pulpit experience.
Not theory alone. Not mere pragmatism alone. Both — because real preaching development requires both. Most resources offer one or the other.
Live access to the instructor — not just pre-recorded content.
Monthly Q&A calls mean your specific questions get real answers — not just more videos. Most online courses are one-way streets.
Personalized feedback on your actual preaching.
The Clarity Audit puts eyes on your manuscript or outline and sends it back with specific, actionable feedback. Expensive or unavailable almost everywhere else.
A community of preachers who understand what Sunday costs.
Real connection with preachers at every stage — people who get it, who ask good questions, and who are serious about growing. Usually absent from online courses entirely.
What preachers are saying
Dr. McClintock's feedback was clear and insightful. I knew he had really listened to my submission and taken the time to work through what I could improve. His advice showed me blindspots I had in my preparation and I now have steps I can take to better my preaching. Thank you for all your time and effort!
— Cameron H.
Clear Preaching Academy
I took a preaching course in Bible school. It was a great experience. The professor is still someone I admire. I got to preach my first sermon at a church about an hour from the school. It was a great memory. The people were kind to listen to someone who was green and just starting out.
The next several years I developed simply by doing — and by listening to others preach. I made strides, but still had no good plan or structure. Trial and error. Learning in the school of hard knocks. I was trying, but as I look back, I wasn't making much headway.
What kept me stuck? I was afraid of feedback. The real kind.
I youth pastored — those poor young people. I pastored — that poor congregation. I look back at the notes from those messages and they were adequate... but severely lacking. There were times I felt like I just didn't have it. I didn't have what it took. I would listen to preachers who profoundly moved congregations with their eloquence and I felt even worse — incapable, under-skilled.
I was eventually given preaching classes to teach. I tell people it was because I was the only warm body with time on my hands. Okay — I'm being a little self-deprecating. But I do recognize how much I still needed to grow.
After more than a decade of teaching preaching to undergrad students, I took the leap and pursued a Doctor of Ministry degree in preaching. Finally.
It opened my eyes. What I had felt incapable of doing was actually a learnable skill. For four, nearly five years, I was shaped by others who also wanted to grow. I took what I was learning and began applying it in my own preaching. My understanding opened. I became less and less afraid of feedback and constructive criticism. I became vulnerable with others and laid down my pride — and I didn't realize how much we preachers carry pride around when it comes to our preaching.
I realized I'm not the perfect preacher. I don't have everything figured out. But I am on a lifetime quest to become all God has called me to be — to continually improve, however I am able, to become a better preacher.
I want my final sermon to be my very best sermon.
And that is why I am building the Clear Preaching Academy — opening June 1.
It is something I wish I would have had when I was younger. And something I am going to enjoy now that I am older.
It is a community built for preachers who are serious about their craft... who are willing to admit they still have something to learn... who want to share what they've learned while also gleaning from others who have learned things they have yet to learn.
It is a community with access to training and coaching, cohorts of small groups who will spend focused time building one another, and a place where preachers can find the encouragement they need — not only in their preaching, but in their lives, their ministries, and their personal spiritual growth.
Come join us. Be part of the beginning of something great — building preachers who are called to build people through the sacred calling of preaching God's Word.
Founding Member Offer
Get in early.
Lock your rate for life.
The first 50 members join at the founding rate — locked permanently, no matter what the rate becomes. When those spots fill, this rate closes and will not reopen.
Founding Member Rate
Full Academy Access
$19/mo
Locked for life — never increases
Public rate after launch
$39/mo
You save $20/month — forever.
- Full training portal access — 4 courses at launch
- Academy community & monthly Q&A calls
- Live cohort participation
- ONE FREE Clarity Audit
- Rate locked — never increases
No contracts. Cancel anytime. Founding rate locked for life for the first 50 members.
Inside the Academy
Other programs give you a finish line.
The Academy gives you a room you never have to leave.
Not a sprint. A home base.
There's a version of preaching development that looks like this: sign up, go through the modules, finish the cohort, get the certificate. Maybe you learned something. Maybe it stuck. Either way, it's over.
That model assumes your preaching problem has a finish line.
It doesn't.
You'll preach again next week. And the week after that. And the week after that. And if you're like most pastors, you'll do it without anyone around who knows what good preaching looks like — no honest feedback, no outside perspective, no one watching your back.
The Clear Preaching Academy is built for the long game. Not a program you complete, but a community you belong to.
When you join, you'll be invited to participate in a Clear Preaching Cohort — a small, focused group working on the same things at the same time, giving each other real feedback on real sermons. But the cohort isn't the destination. It's the beginning.
The relationships you build don't stop when the cohort ends. The framework you learn doesn't expire. The community is there every week — the same way Sunday is.
Preaching never stops needing outside eyes. The Academy is built around that reality — an ongoing community with a clear framework, honest feedback, and people who understand the weight of Sunday.
Built around one clear framework.
Proven in the pulpit.
Dr. McClintock's doctoral research focused on one question: what actually makes a sermon clear? What he found became the foundation of everything inside the Academy.
Every sermon moves through four areas where the preacher either increases clarity — or decreases it. Understanding each domain changes how you prepare, how you structure, and how you deliver.
What the framework makes possible.
The Academy is more than training.
Inside you will find a community of like-minded preachers who share the same goals — to never stop growing in their preaching ministry, and to make sure their last message is their best one.
First 50 founding members join at $19/month — locked for life.
I'm Ready to Join →Common questions.
When does the Academy launch? +
The Clear Preaching Academy launches June 1, 2026. Founding members get immediate access on launch day. In the meantime, the Weekly Clarity email is the best way to stay sharp and get notified the moment doors open.
What's available when I join? +
From day one, founding members have full access to four complete courses — The Big Idea of Preaching, The Open, Why We Preach, and The Craft of Oral Clarity — plus the Academy community and monthly Q&A. New courses and resources are added on an ongoing basis.
Is the $19 founding rate really locked for life? +
Yes. Join before the 50 spots are filled and your rate is locked permanently — it never increases as long as your membership is active. The standard rate after launch is $39/month.
Can I cancel anytime? +
Absolutely. No contracts, no commitments. Cancel anytime. If you cancel your founding membership and want to rejoin later, you'll return at the current rate — so it's worth staying.
What is the Clarity Audit? +
You submit your sermon manuscript or outline. Jonathan reviews it and sends it back with detailed written feedback on your Big Idea, structure, and clarity. It's a one-on-one look at what's working and what isn't. Academy members get 50% off the standard rate.
Is the Academy right for newer preachers? +
Yes. The framework is the same one Jonathan teaches in seminary-level preaching courses — but it's been translated for preachers at every stage. Whether you've been preaching two years or twenty, clarity is always the right goal.
The founding rate won't last.
The training will.
If you've been waiting for a sign to invest in your preaching — this is it.
I'm Ready to Join50 founding member spots · $19/month locked for life · Launching June 1, 2026