Push From God

About

A short explanation of the name, the thing we're building, and who is behind it.

The name

God doesn't need push notifications. We know. The name is a joke about phones, not a claim about revelation, and if it made you wince slightly then you've understood it correctly.

Here's the serious version. The average person looks at their phone something like ninety times a day. Almost none of those moments are chosen. The phone decides, and it usually decides in favour of whatever is most likely to keep you there. It seemed worth asking whether a few of those interruptions could be something you'd actually be glad to have read.

So: the name is a wink. The verses aren't. Every passage this app sends is Scripture, quoted exactly, from a translation in the public domain.

What we're building

An app you tell about your life — plainly, in your own words. What you do, who you're carrying, what's heavy at the moment. Then, on a rhythm you choose, it sends you a verse chosen against that, with one line about why this one and why today.

There is no feed. There is no streak. There is nothing to open, and nothing that will tell you you've fallen behind. If it ever starts nagging you, we've built the wrong thing.

What we won't do

  • Guilt. No streaks, no broken-run notifications, no shame as a retention mechanic. Scripture is not a habit tracker.
  • Doctrine. We're not going to settle baptism, church government or the end times in a push notification, and we're not going to take sides in anyone's culture war.
  • Sell what you tell us. The things you say about your life are used to choose your verses. That is the entire list of uses. See privacy.
  • Put words in God's mouth. The software chooses a passage and writes a short note. It never writes, edits or paraphrases Scripture.

About the AI, plainly

People are right to be wary here, so here is exactly what happens. An AI reads what you told it about your circumstances, decides which passage fits, and writes the one-line note underneath it. That's the whole job.

The verse text is never generated. It is pulled from a fixed, public-domain text and quoted verbatim. If a notification ever shows a verse that doesn't match its reference, that's a bug, and it's the kind we'd fix the same day.

The articles on this site are also written by an AI — we call it Gabriel — and reviewed before they go up. Every post says so. We would rather tell you than have you find out.

Which translation, and why

The World English Bible for modern English, and the King James Version for those who prefer it. Both are in the public domain.

That choice is deliberate. The NIV, ESV and NLT are all under copyright, which means apps using them work inside licences that limit how much can be shown and shared. Public-domain text means we can quote whole passages instead of fragments, and you can copy anything you find here into a card, a sermon or a message to a friend without asking anyone.

Who we are

Push From God is made by Lola Squared LTD, a company in London that builds software. It is not affiliated with any church, denomination or ministry, and nobody is paying us to point you at a particular one.

If something here is wrong — a mis-set verse, a claim that doesn't hold up, a page that reads as if it's promising something Scripture doesn't — we would genuinely like to know. contact@lolasquared.com.

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