Why We Created SmartSearch
The global audience that Turning Point serves has grown to include millions of viewers, listeners, and readers across nearly every time zone. Yet one challenge persisted: how to make Dr. Jeremiah's vast library of biblical teaching instantly searchable and personally relavant to each individual's question or need.
Traditional search tools could index sermon titles or key phrases, but they couldn't understand the meaning or context behind someone's question.
We wanted to change that.
Our goal was simple, but ambitious: To enable anyone, anywhere, to ask a question about faith, and immediately access Dr. Jeremiah's Bible-based answer, in his own voice and words.
SmartSearch was born out of that vision: Combining Turning Point's deep, Bible Strong teaching archive with the most advanced AI technology available today.
Technology will never replace the timeless truth of God’s Word… but it can amplify it.
See the Difference
SmartSearch is no ordinary search engine. It leads you to the exact answer you need...in text and video formats! Below is a comparison between Google search results and SmartSearch.
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How Do I Find Happiness?
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What to Expect from SmartSearch
Quick Answers
No extra searching required—receive concise, trustworthy answers pulled directly from Dr. Jeremiah's messages and resources.
Video Clips
Watch message clips that bring you directly to where your question is addressed. Click and watch in context.
TurningPoint+ Integration
Get links to more messages on TurningPoint+, where your questions can be further explored.
Written Resources
Get links to relevant blog posts, books, and devotionals written by Dr. Jeremiah for continued study.
SmartSearch Chat
Many faith-based questions aren't easily understood with a single answer. SmartSearch Chat lets you explore your questions in greater depth through a conversational experience that invites meaningful follow-up thoughts and reflection. You can even return to previous conversations and share them with your loved ones. SmartSearch Chat is an exciting new expansion of SmartSearch, designed to harness advanced AI technology to deliver Bible-strong teaching.
How SmartSearch Works
Through SmartSearch, we’re harnessing advanced technology to bring trustworthy, God-honoring, biblically-based answers to questions in a completely user-friendly way!
Building the Knowledge Base
Over forty years of Dr. Jeremiah’s sermons—spanning television, radio, and online broadcasts—form the foundation of SmartSearch’s intelligence.
Structuring and Enriching the Data
Each sermon transcript was segmented and indexed, linking every phrase and sentence to the precise timestamp in the video recording—allowing SmartSearch to find relevant answers and play them in context.
Connecting the Data to the Large Language Model
Unlike general-purpose AI tools that draw from the open internet, SmartSearch’s model is restricted exclusively to Dr. Jeremiah’s teaching content, ensuring every answer is biblically grounded and aligned with his decades of faithful teaching.
Delivering Instant, Contextual Answers
When a user asks a question, SmartSearch uses semantic understanding to match it with the most relevant portions of Dr. Jeremiah’s messages and then returns a concise response along with a playable sermon segment.
The Team Behind SmartSearch
“I envision tools like SmartSearch helping to bring the Gospel to people around the world by allowing them to discover and explore biblical teachings in a new and exciting way.”

Shaun Tehranchi
Engineering Special Projects Supervisor
"I'm very proud of what our team has built with SmartSearch. By bringing the entire catalog of Dr. David Jeremiah's teachings together, SmartSearch is able to deliver instant, trustworthy answers."

Sam Craven
Web/Apps Engineering Manager
“I feel SmartSearch supports our mission of delivering the unchanging Word of God to an ever-changing world by providing believers and nonbelievers alike with biblically grounded responses to their questions about faith.”

Esther Song
Jr. Mobile App Developer
"I think SmartSearch can bridge the gap for those who feel intimidated asking questions in church, offering a trusted place for Biblical answers and a way to grow deeper in the Word and in their relationship with the Lord."

Austin Atwood
Web Developer
Be Part of the Mission
It's free to search on the web for results—it's not free to put them there. Using technology in this way is costly. Please join us on this evangelistic, technologically advanced mission! As you give generously today, we'll move forward together.
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