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Unsure where to Start?
Download this simple guide that will help you get started with simple to advanced prompts.
Resources
AI for Pastors – FREE self-paced course.
Virtual Bible Snapshot Project – Image DB
Adventist Media Exchange – Image DB
AI in Ministry (Spring 2026)
Enhance Your AI – Custom Instructions
My GPTs
Top Text Gen AI
1. Claude by Anthropic
2. ChatGPT by OpenAI
3. Google Gemini, Notebook, Learn About
4. Grok by X
5. DeepSeek
6. Microsoft Copilot (Based on ChatGPT)
7. Meta AI, Llama 3*
8. Mistral
– Current Rankings: Leaderboard
Audio Gen AI
Music: Suno, ElevenLabs, Udio, Loudly, Mureka, Riffusion, HitCraft
Text to speech: ElevenLabs, HeyGen, Free: VoiceBox OmniVoiceBox
– Current Rankings: Leaderboard
Dictation: Alter, MacWhisper, SuperWhisper, Wispr Flow, Free: Spokenly, Vibe
Video Gen AI
Video: Google Veo, Higgsfield, RunwayML, Hailuo, Luma, Haiper, Genmo, Pika, Kling, Pollo, LTX Studio [Leaderboard]
Agentic Tools
Computer Control and Coding
Some risk. These can modify/delete anything you provide access to.
1. Claude Code – Frontier, with strict usage limits.
2. ChatGPT Codex – Frontier, with generous usage limits.
3. Google Antigravity
4. Cursor – Students 1yr free.
5. Alter – Use most providers. Coupon: “AILab” 10%-off lifetime, 1 mo. free.
6. Osaurus – Free, Runs offline (optimized for Mac).
7. LM Studio Bionic – Free, Runs offline.
8. Lovable – Cloud based webapp creation and more.
9. Perplexity Computer
Others: Manus, Simular
Autonomous Agents
Highest risk. Require protective intentionality with passwords and files.
1. Hermes – Learns and grows as you interact with it.
2. OpenClaw – More complex to setup.
Agentic Browsers:
1. Perplexity Comet
2. OpenAI Atlas
Top Image Gen AI
See: Eric Louw’s Image AI Comparisons [refresh in progress]
1. ChatGPT | Copilot – 5/5 prompt coherence (PRC)
2. Gemini – 5/5 PRC
3. Reve – 5/5 PRC, Plans before rendering.
4. Recraft – 3/5 PRC, vector image support
5. Grok – 4/5 PRC
6. Meta AI – 2.5/5 PRC,
7. Flux in Leonardo | Krea | Nightcafe – 4/5 PRC
8. Ideogram – 3/5 PRC,
9. Midjourney – 3/5 PRC,
10. Krea 2 – 3/5 PRC,
11. Adobe Firefly
12. StableDiffusion
– Current Rankings: Leaderboard 1, Leaderboard 2, Leaderboard 3
– Lexica.art – Image library for prompt ideas.
Upscalers (cloud):
Leonardo, Krea, Nightcafe, Magnific, Topaz Studio, Real-Esrgan
Local Upscalers: Pictura, Free: Upscayl, ChaiNNer/OpenModelDB
– Best: Leonardo, Krea, Nightcafe, Magnific – These add detail and quality.
Offline AI Solutions
Offline LLM Leaderboard
Large Language Model Apps:
– LM Studio – Run LLMs locally from huggingface.
– Osaurus – Run LLMs locally (optimized for Mac).
– Ollama – Run LLMs locally from Ollama or huggingface
– Msty – LLMs locally from huggingface or Ollama with RAG support.
– AnythingLLM – Supports documents, basic agents.
– GPT4all – Can embed your documents/folders with local LLMs.
– Locally AI – Runs smaller local models on iOS.
Image Model Apps:
– DrawThings – Easiest install. Best memory management, iOS compatible.
– ComfyUI – Most popular. Node-based. Complicated. Cutting edge.
– Imago – Simplest to use. Based on Flux 2.
– Pinokio – A 1-click “app store” for installing AI solutions.
– Others: SD WebUI UX, SwarmUI, InvokeAI
*For advanced users/machines. Minimum: Nvidia GPU 16GB vRAM+ or high-end ARM processor with unified 64GB+ shared RAM. For apps that use online provider API keys, scroll down to “Definitive App Comparisons.”
Misc. AI Tools
Writing and Research:
- Grammarly – Top AI Grammar Checker. Others: Hemingway Editor, Slickwrite
- Zotero – Free citation collector, organizer, and generator. Automatically inserts accurate footnotes and bibliographies into your word processor. Add books by ISBN.
- Scrivener – The Photoshop of writing apps. Sort your writing into chapters and sections with snapshots to save and revert to different versions of your work. Doesn’t work with Zotero, but can take EndNote or Bookends reference codes. My Endnote Turabian 9th preference file.
- Text Workflow – I use this to automatically find and replace a large variety of common mistakes after copying poorly OCR’d text into my research file.
- Hebrew or Greek Mnemonic Generator GPT (Requires ChatGPT Subscription) – Enter a Hebrew or Greek Word. ChatGPT will generate 7 mnemonics. Then enter an output number to generate a visual depiction.
- Academic Writing Standard Tips – An outline of basic steps with a checklist.
- Devonthink revolutionizes file searching. Watch how it can save you time:
AI And Academics: Usage suggestions: Try asking Claude.ai to…
- Summarize Content / Create an abstract.
- Explain or simplify concepts with an analogy.
- Identify gaps in your logic or any lack of correspondence between your problem/purpose/methodology statements and the rest of your written work.
- Critique a paper according to an uploaded rubric.
- Describe the structure or methodology of a paper to understand it better.
- Check grammar [Grammarly is better specialized here].
- Create quiz questions based on presentation notes.
- Find synonyms or re-write a complex sentence.
- Brainstorm more creative titles.
- Locate ideas in a document.
AI Resources:
- PDFGear – A PDF reader with AI chat capabilities to engage with PDF content. Not as accurate as Claude.ai, but still useful. Reliability diminishes beyond 100 pages.
- AI for Education – Prompt library of ideas for academic use.
- Brisk Teaching – An AI browser tool to help critique papers and perform a variety of other tasks.
- Text AI Cheatsheet – Outlines the basic steps to writing good AI prompts.
- Image AI Cheatsheet – Outlines steps for good image generation prompts.
- AI Research tools: STORM, Scite, Elicit, Consensus, Google Deep Research, NotebookLM