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Faith Driven Entrepreneur

Faith Driven Entrepreneur

Monetized/For‑Profit

Faith Driven Entrepreneur is a digital platform and mobile app designed to equip Christ-following entrepreneurs with stories, resources, and community support. It offers curated monthly content, facilitator chat groups, prayer requests, and discussion guides—all aimed at helping users fulfill their God-given call to create. The app is free to use, with no ads or in-app purchases, and is also available on Roku and Apple TV.

Reasonable Faith

Reasonable Faith

Non‑Profit

Reasonable Faith, founded by Dr. William Lane Craig, exists to provide an articulate, intelligent voice for biblical Christianity in the public square. Through podcasts, debates, articles, and live classes, it equips believers to clearly state and defend Christian truth claims. This free app is powered by Subsplash’s The Church App platform — a distribution network used by many ministries that also prominently features Subsplash branding. While Reasonable Faith owns and curates all content, the underlying tech and multi‑platform reach are provided by Subsplash, whose infrastructure places their name alongside every ministry they serve.

Grace to You

Grace to You

Non‑Profit

Grace to You is a nonprofit ministry using tech for Jesus to deliver over five decades of John MacArthur’s verse-by-verse Bible teaching. The app offers free access to sermons, devotionals, and 24/7 streaming through Grace Stream. With no paywalls and a clear commitment to biblical truth, it’s a robust resource for believers seeking depth, clarity, and consistency in their walk with Christ.

Daily Grace Co

Jeremy & Kristin, LLC

Monetized/For‑Profit

Daily Grace Co. offers a companion app for its Bible study products, allowing users to access purchased devotionals, videos, and reflection questions in one place. While the company operates as a profit-modeled entity, the app includes a free sample study (The Word of Life) and encourages Scripture engagement through daily readings and community features. Most content is unlocked via product purchases, with no subscription model in place.

LifeWay Women App

Lifeway Christian Resources

Non‑Profit

Lifeway Christian Resources — a long‑standing 501(c)(3) ministry — uses tech for Jesus through the Lifeway Women app, helping women stay rooted in God’s Word wherever they are. The app complements Lifeway’s Bible study books with Scripture readings, journaling prompts, podcasts, prayer walls, and private group features, making it easy to connect, grow, and encourage one another in faith.

Edifi Podcasts

The Christian Post, INC.

Monetized/For‑Profit

Edifi, from The Christian Post, INC., is a Christian podcast platform hosting thousands of sermons, devotionals, Bible readings, and faith‑based shows. The app is free to download and listen, with optional promotional or premium features for creators and listeners. Available on iOS, Android, web, and smart devices, Edifi offers a curated, faith‑focused listening experience without requiring payment for most content.

Gospel Partner - Joseph Prince

Joseph Prince Resources

Monetized/For‑Profit

Gospel Partner is the official streaming app from Joseph Prince Resources, offering 1,700+ hours of sermons, devotionals, and Bible study tools centered on the gospel of grace. While the app includes some free resources, full access operates on a subscription model, with purchases helping fund the mission to make more teaching content free worldwide. Available on iOS, Android, and web, it’s designed to help users cultivate a daily rhythm of Scripture, prayer, and Christ‑centered encouragement.

CP Sermons

Mission Lab, LLC (Church Plugins)

Monetized/For‑Profit

CP Sermons is a WordPress plugin from the Church Plugins suite by Mission Lab. It helps churches publish and organize sermons with search and filtering by topic, season, scripture, and speaker. It supports audio and video playback, customizable templates, and integration with external media sources. Note: This is a paid, proprietary tool. Churches should confirm they can export all sermon media, transcripts, and metadata in a usable format to avoid vendor lock-in.

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast

Life.Church

Non‑Profit

The Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast is a nonprofit initiative from Life.Church using tech for Jesus to equip leaders in ministry, business, and everyday life. Hosted by Pastor Craig Groeschel, each episode delivers practical, biblically grounded leadership insights in 30 minutes or less, with actionable takeaways to help listeners lead themselves and their teams with integrity, vision, and faith. Offered free of charge, the podcast is part of Life.Church’s broader mission to resource the global Church without paywalls.

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof Communications Limited (Art of Leadership Network)

Monetized/For‑Profit

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast is a weekly interview show featuring top leaders from the church, business, and nonprofit worlds, exploring leadership, change, and personal growth. Guests have included voices like Tim Keller, Andy Stanley, Christine Caine, Patrick Lencioni, and Seth Godin. While the content is faith-friendly and offers practical insights for ministry and marketplace leaders alike, it is produced by a for‑profit communications company and distributed as part of the Art of Leadership Network, which monetizes through sponsorships, partnerships, and related paid leadership resources.

The Christian Post

The Christian Post, Inc.

Monetized/For‑Profit

The Christian Post app provides news articles, opinion pieces, podcasts, and videos covering topics related to Christianity, politics, culture, and global events. It includes sections such as Church & Ministries, U.S., World, Entertainment, and Education, and offers both free and subscription-based content.

The Pour Over

The Pour Over

Monetized/For‑Profit

The Pour Over is a Christian news platform delivering politically neutral, Christ‑first summaries of major headlines through a free email newsletter, website, and podcast. It operates as a for‑profit company, earning revenue through advertising partnerships and optional paid subscriptions, while keeping its core content free to access.

Canon+

Canon Press

Monetized/For‑Profit

Canon+ is a streaming platform offering faithful Reformed Christian content, including audiobooks, sermon series, conferences, debates, documentaries, talk shows, and video courses. It operates as a for‑profit service, generating revenue through paid subscriptions that grant unlimited streaming and downloads, with no third‑party advertising.

Tabella.app

Tabella, Inc.

Monetized/For‑Profit

Tabella is a Catholic community platform for parishes, dioceses, and groups, offering announcements, event scheduling, messaging, donations, and free Catholic media (prayers, novenas, rosary, Gospel readings). It is promoted as “The #1 Free Catholic App” and is built to centralize communication and faith content in a private, ad‑free environment. While free to end users, Tabella monetizes through partnerships, Catholic business advertising, and service agreements with parishes, dioceses, and ministries.

Jesus Calling App

HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc.

Monetized/For‑Profit

The Jesus Calling App delivers Sarah Young’s bestselling devotionals in a sleek, mobile-first format, offering audio narration, journaling, and access to the full Jesus Calling library. While the content is deeply devotional and widely beloved, the app is operated by HarperCollins Christian Publishing—a commercial imprint of HarperCollins. Access is gated behind subscription tiers ($4.99/month or $49.99/year), positioning the app as a polished product of the Christian publishing industry, not a nonprofit ministry.

Good News Line

Good News Line International

Non‑Profit

Good News Line (GNL) is a free, faith-based video platform offering high-quality, uplifting content for the whole family. It curates sermons, worship music, testimonies, documentaries, children’s programming, and teaching from a wide range of Christian denominations—treating all as equal members of the Body of Christ. While GNL presents itself as a ministry resource and has operated since 2005, there is no publicly verifiable record of it being registered as a nonprofit in the U.S. or abroad. All videos are currently sourced from YouTube and arranged in an intentional, no-endless-scroll format, with plans for more exclusive content.

Prayercast

OneWay Ministries

Non‑Profit

Prayercast is a ministry of OneWay Ministries, created to activate “world‑changing prayer for the lost” through high‑quality, nation‑ and people‑group‑specific video resources. It offers well‑researched prayer guides for every country and major religion, plus thematic series like Love Muslims and Pray for the News. Each video combines intercessory prayer, on‑location footage, and cultural context to help believers pray knowledgeably and strategically. All resources are free to access, reflecting Prayercast’s faith‑supported nonprofit model. The ministry operates globally from its base in Illinois, with production handled by OneWay Studios.

Focus on the Family App

Focus on the Family

Non‑Profit

The Focus on the Family App offers free access to a wide range of Christian media and resources for every season of life—singlehood, marriage, parenting, and aging well. Users can stream podcasts like Adventures in Odyssey, The Daily Broadcast, and Plugged In, explore devotionals, and join group events through integrated messaging features. The app is designed to help families thrive in Christ, with biblically grounded content and practical encouragement. It’s developed and maintained by Focus on the Family, a registered nonprofit ministry committed to strengthening families through media, counseling, and advocacy.

Jesus Spoke

ito Creative Studio

Monetized/For‑Profit

Jesus Spoke is a devotional app that delivers daily Scripture passages and reflections centered on the words of Christ. It encourages users to pause, read, and respond in prayer or action, making the teachings of Jesus part of everyday life. While the mission is clearly faith-driven, the app is developed by ito Creative Studio, a commercial creative agency, and does not operate as a nonprofit ministry.

Sermon Central

SermonCentral (Outreach, Inc.)

Monetized/For‑Profit

SermonCentral is one of the largest online sermon libraries in the world, operated by Outreach, Inc., a for-profit Christian media and publishing company. The platform provides pastors and church leaders with access to sermon outlines, illustrations, media slides, and videos. It is designed to help pastors prepare messages more efficiently and to share resources across denominations. The site offers a mix of free content and premium subscription plans. Free users can access a limited number of sermons and illustrations, while paid subscribers unlock unlimited downloads, sermon media packages, and additional tools.

Infinite Dominion

Zack (Zachary) Grafman

Monetized/For‑Profit

Infinite Dominion is a Christian futurism newsletter and podcast created by Zack Grafman, hosted on Substack and distributed through podcast platforms. The project explores themes of holy imagination, dominion theology, and Christian cultural engagement, often interviewing pioneers, founders, and thinkers who are shaping technology, culture, and ministry. Its tagline, "The Future is Christian," frames the series as a call for believers to take dominion in physical, digital, and spiritual spheres. The platform is independent and profit-modeled, sustained through Substack subscriptions and podcast distribution.

Sermon Send

Sermon Send

Monetized/For‑Profit

Sermon Send is a platform that helps churches turn full-length sermons into short, shareable digital content. Instead of expecting people to watch a 30-minute video, the service repackages sermons into clips, devotionals, quotes, and graphics that can be easily shared on social media or via a single branded page. The goal is to empower congregations to act as "digital missionaries" by spreading their church’s message online. The service operates on a subscription model, with tiers ranging from a free starter option (limited to one page) up to premium plans that include video uploads, AI-generated devotionals, discussion guides, and branded content. Sermon Send is explicitly commercial, not a nonprofit ministry, and functions as a vendor relationship for churches seeking to expand their digital reach.

Getsermons

GETSERMONS APP LTD

Monetized/For‑Profit

GetSermons is a Christian app developed by GETSERMONS APP LTD. It provides access to thousands of sermons for streaming, discovery, and sharing, with features like playlists, note‑taking, and short video clips. The app also includes PreachAI, which allows users to interact with sermons in a chat format. The service is offered commercially, but its stated mission is to make sermons more accessible and engaging for Christians worldwide.

Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

Non‑Profit

Wild at Heart, founded by John Eldredge, is a nonprofit Christian ministry focused on spiritual formation and discipleship. Its mission is to help men and women recover the gospel as a way of life and live in the freedom and passion of Christ. The ministry produces books, podcasts, events, and a mobile app that delivers daily devotionals, guided prayers, and teaching resources. It is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, not a commercial service.

Revive Our Hearts Podcast

Revive Our Hearts Ministries

Non‑Profit

Revive Our Hearts is a daily discipleship podcast and ministry resource led by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. Founded in 2001 as a successor to Elisabeth Elliot’s Gateway to Joy, the nonprofit ministry exists to help women thrive in Christ through biblical teaching, practical encouragement, and global outreach. The podcast features daily audio devotionals, interviews, and teaching designed to call women to freedom, fullness, and fruitfulness in Christ. It is freely available on iOS, Android, and the web, with no paywalls, making it a true nonprofit resource using tech for Jesus.

Godcaster Radio Podcasts

Capstone eMedia Group LLC (founded by Gordon Marcy)

Monetized/For‑Profit

Godcaster is a Christian radio and podcasting platform designed to "lift a thousand voices" by equipping churches, ministries, and broadcasters with tools to stream, publish, and monetize audio content. It offers live radio integration, on-demand podcasts, listener engagement analytics, and seamless donation features built into the player. The platform is Podcasting 2.0 compatible, supporting transcripts, chapters, and geolocation data. While deeply mission-driven and built in partnership with pioneers like Adam Curry and Dave Jones, Godcaster is operated by Capstone eMedia Group LLC as a commercial venture.