There are excellent books on Christ-centered preaching — Chapell, Greidanus, Goldsworthy. There are powerful Bible software tools — Logos, BibleGateway, Accordance. But none of them answer one specific question for every passage in the Bible:
How does this text point to Christ and the gospel?
Not by keyword. Not by cross-reference. By redemptive connection — systematically, for all 2,123 pericopes from Genesis to Revelation.
That is what GospelTrace does. And it doesn't exist anywhere else.
Existing Bible tools organize Scripture by words, verses, or topics. GospelTrace organizes it by its redemptive axis — the thread that runs from creation to new creation and finds its center at the cross.
For every passage, GospelTrace identifies which of seven redemptive connections links that text to Christ: direct messianic prophecy, typology, covenant promise, need for the gospel, historical redemption, wisdom fulfilled in Christ, or Christ explicit in the text.
Then it goes further. For each pericope it provides the passage theme, the central idea, how it points to Christ, the most common moralistic misreading of that text, the correct Christ-centered preaching approach, the pastoral application, and key cross references.
It is the difference between a concordance and a gospel map of the entire Bible.
GospelTrace was not designed by a software team. It was built by a pastor-engineer and author with over 25 years of expository preaching ministry in Latin America and the United States — someone who has sat with the text every week, wrestled with how to get from the passage to Christ, and watched congregations transformed when the gospel is actually preached.
That pastoral DNA is in every analysis.
Moralistic preaching is not only a Latin American problem. Across the English-speaking world, preachers trained in good hermeneutics still struggle to make the redemptive move — to get from the text to Christ without being arbitrary or mechanical.
GospelTrace is a practical reference for that move. Whether you are preparing a sermon series through Leviticus, teaching a theology class on biblical typology, or helping a new preacher understand why "be like Daniel" misses the point — GospelTrace gives you the framework, passage by passage, book by book, testament by testament.
Not all texts point to Christ in the same way. GospelTrace identifies seven types of connection: direct messianic prophecy, typology, covenant promise, need for the gospel, historical redemption, wisdom fulfilled in Christ, and Christ explicit in the text.
The seven christological connection modes in GospelTrace are not an original invention. They are a pastoral synthesis of decades of serious academic work in Christ-centered preaching and biblical theology. GospelTrace owes a deep intellectual debt to the following authors:
GospelTrace is a pastoral tool, not an academic work. But it is built on the shoulders of giants. These authors dedicated their lives to returning Christ to the center of preaching. GospelTrace is an attempt to put that work within reach of every pastor, in their language, for free.
GospelTrace is completely free. No registration. No subscription. Bilingual in Spanish and English. The pastor in rural Guatemala and the seminary professor in London have access to exactly the same tool.
The gospel is free. The tool that helps preach it should be too.
GospelTrace is the first layer of a larger ecosystem: an interactive Redemptive History map, a biblical typology dictionary, a covenant explorer, exportable expository preaching plans, and small group resources — all organized around the same conviction that built this tool.
The Scriptures testify about Christ. Every preacher deserves a tool that helps them see it.
We are not a large organization or a tech company. We are a small ministry with a big conviction: that Christ-centered preaching can transform churches, and that a good tool can help more pastors preach Christ from every text of the Bible.
About the author: GospelTrace was created by Luis Alberto Sanchez pastor, engineer, and author with over 25 years of pastoral ministry and expository preaching in Latin America and the United States. A project built from the pulpit, for the pulpit.
Found a theological or exegetical issue? Have a suggestion? Want to collaborate, use GospelTrace in a seminary course, or distribute it in your ministry context? We'd love to hear from you.
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