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Latest Sermon Series Recipe

Make it easy for your congregation to find the latest sermon series!

You can customize the Latest Sermon Series recipe and add it to your dashboard. Choose whether to show buttons which can link to the current series or all series, filter by the type of series, show past sermons or only upcoming sermons, show an image, and customize the wording!

Example with ButtonsExample of Past Series
Example showing a dashboard card with the title "Latest Series" along with an image, series title, sermon dates, and buttons for "Current Series" and "All Series"Example showing a dashboard card with the title "Current Series" along with an image, sermon title and date, and a button for "Message Archives"
Heading without Series TitleHeading with Series Title
Example of a card showing "Current Series" as the main heading, along with two sermon titles and their datesExample of a card showing "Current Series" as the main heading, "Sermon Series 1" as the series title, and two sermon titles and their dates
  • This recipe takes advantage of language packs.
  • If you show the buttons, you can configure the labels via the language packs. If you don't show the buttons, the card is clickable and opens to the current series.
  • You can choose to show all upcoming sermons—that is, future unpublished sermons in the series. Note, though, when someone clicks the button or card to see the current series, they'll only see sermons that have been published.
  • The image attached to the Sermon Series record displays in the card. If no image is attached, nothing displays in its place, so make sure you attach one if you want an image to display!
  • The main heading (in our example, "Latest Series" or "Current Series") is optional, and you can decide whether to show it outside of the card (by defining the title setting) or inside of the card (by defining the cardTitle setting).

Here's the basic code to get you started. See the field information for details about each of these settings.

  {
    "allSeriesButtonText": "All Series",
    "appRevisionConfig": null,
    "cardTitle": null,
    "congregationConfig": null,
    "currentSermonSeriesButtonText": "Current Series",
    "filterBySermonSeriesTypeIds": null,
    "geoConfig": null,
    "id": null,
    "languageConfig": null,
    "platformConfig": null,
    "scheduleConfig": null,
    "showSeriesTitle": true,
    "title": "Latest Series",
    "userConfig": null,
    "versionConfig": null,
    "recipe": "latestSermonSeries"
  },

Latest Sermon Series Field Information

allSeriesButtonText
Optional text for the button that links to all series. If omitted, the button does not display.
cardTitle
Optional title that displays within the card, at the top.
currentSermonSeriesButtonText
Optional text for the button that links to the current series. If omitted, the button does not display.
filterBySermonSeriesTypeIds
Optional way to display the most recent series from the specified type(s). You can include an array of Sermon Series Type IDs. If you show the button linking to all series, this filter is applied so that only series with these Type IDs display.
id
Optional unique identifier.
showSeriesTitle
Required; either true or false. This determines whether to show the sermon series title under the image.
title
Optional title that displays outside of the card, at the top.