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Jessica Linde
Contributing sermons since Jan 30, 2024
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The Voice Of The Good Shepherd: Recognition Through Relationship
Contributed on Apr 14, 2026
By reflecting on how dogs and sheep recognise their owner’s and shepherd’s voice, this sermon highlights that true recognition of God comes through relationship and warns that we risk becoming like the leaders critiqued in John 10 and Psalm 82 if we lose familiarity with His voice.
As someone who absolutely loves animals (especially dogs, maybe more than I actually like people), a particular study that came out in 2016 just thoroughly warmed my heart! Neuroscientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia wanted to study dogs’ reward preferences, so they trained dogs to be ...read more
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Strength Beyond Self: Receiving The Power Of God
Contributed on Sep 29, 2025
In contrast to the self-reliant grit our culture so often advocates, this sermon’s ultimate goal is to highlight that true and lasting strength comes from allowing God's "power" to work in and through our human fragility.
Over the past several Sundays, we have been working through a sermon series on Paul’s letter to the early church in Philippi—a now ruined city in north east Greece. As we’ve worked through this series (which we are concluding today), we’ve seen how this little letter is overflowing with faith, ...read more
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El Roi: Making Sense Of Being Seen By God
Contributed on Jul 21, 2025
By looking at the story of Hagar and how she gives God the name El Roi ("God who sees"), this sermon’s ultimate goal is to highlight that God being able to see us is not an indication of Him wanting to surveil us; rather, it's an indication of His boundless compassion and mercy on us.
Who here has ever read George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984? Or maybe seen the movie version of it with John Hurt…? Right, so for those of you who may not know (or need a refresher), Orwell published his work 1984 in the year 1949, and it’s really a speculation (perhaps a warning) of what the year ...read more
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Growing In Wisdom: Even 12 Year Old Jesus Needed To Learn
Contributed on Jan 6, 2025
By looking at the story of 12 year old Jesus wandering away from Mary and Joseph to go to the Jerusalem Temple, this sermon’s ultimate goal is to highlight that Jesus is fully Man as well as fully God, thus He needed to "grow in wisdom" just like the rest of us.
Because today marks the Christian feast of Epiphany—the day in which the Three Kings (the Magi) finally arrived in Bethlehem to adore the newly born Christ Child—this also means that today marks the official end to the liturgical season of Christmas! ?Now for some of us here, this might be a sad ...read more
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The Tale Of The Broken Coffee Machine: The Importance Of Others In Comprehending God's Word
Contributed on Oct 14, 2024
By looking at the example of Philip and the Ethiopian from Acts 8, this sermon’s ultimate goal is to highlight the importance of having others to instruct us in the meaning of scripture in order for us to fully understand it.
So this morning, I’m going to tell you a story… a true story… a story about a coffee machine… specifically, the coffee machine that my partner and I have in in our flat! This coffee machine (a Tassimo)—so not that dissimilar to something like a Nespresso—was already in the flat when we moved in, ...read more