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Have you tried looking in your widgets for the "Sermons" sidebar widget? Drag it over to your sidebar and tell it how many sermons to display, whether or not you want the preacher name, etc.

I think your making it more complicated than it has to be.

An 'easier' approach would be to take your page.php template, copy that template file and rename it to something like sermon.php. Once you have done that, go into wp and click 'edit' on the page where you placed the sermon shortcode. Change the template file to the new sermon.php file you just created.

Now you have sermon browser using it's 'own' template page file.

At this point you could edit the sermon.php page you created and remove the sidebar call from the template.

Now you have a completely blank slate to work with. It's simply a matter of changing of the template code within sermon browser itself to make the page look any way you want.

for instance, you could float your own div to make your own sidebar, which you place the call to the filtering form in. Simply place the filtering forms shortcode into your new 'sidebar div'.

Really, at that point you can order the shortcode display anyway you want.