Search Tips

To Find the Most Recent Sermons
Beginning with March-2001, there is a date code in the sermons.  To find the sermons for any given month, put in the month and year exactly as shown. (Month-xxxx)

Use Similar Words
The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant results you will get back.
For Example: secure safe safety security 

Use Appropriate Capitalization
Capitalize proper nouns.  Lower case words will match any case.  For example, a search for father would return all documents using that word.  A search for Father would only return those uses that refer to God.

Use Quotation Marks
Use quotation marks to find phrases.  For example, if you type "fruit of the spirit," the search would result in documents containing that phrase.  Without the quotation marks, it would find all uses of those words, but not in any particular order.

Use Plus (+) or Minus (-) Signs
The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.  There should not be a space between the sign and the search word.  For example: Typing in +John +3:16 would result in sermons which included John 3:16.  Typing +John -3:16 would result in sermons that used John but  not verse 3:16.

Use Field Searches
Field searches allow you to create specific searches for words that appear in a specific part of a document. A field search can be performed on body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta description (desc:), meta key words (keys:) or URL (url:). The field name should be in lowercase and immediately followed by a colon. There should be no spaces between the colon and the search term.  For example, typing keys:salvation would yield a search result of all children's sermons where I included salvation in the meta tag as a key word even though the word salvation might not be in the body of the actual sermon.

Wild Card Searches
Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.  For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh.  Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.

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