AI-Powered Sermon Knowledge Base
Years of teaching — none of it searchable. Linger turns your sermon archive into a living knowledge base that can be explored all week.
Hagah
(hā-gä)
Hebrew — to mutter, to chew, to turn over again and again.
A pastor spends twenty hours preparing a sermon. By midweek, most of the congregation has lost the thread.
Not because they don't care — but because there's nowhere to go with it afterward. The full teaching history of a church sits locked inside hour-long recordings that nobody re-listens to.
How it works
Send us your sermon recordings — months or years of content.
Every sermon transcribed. Scripture indexed. Themes cross-referenced.
Search, ask questions, trace themes — all week long.
The knowledge layer
Linger makes your church's entire teaching history searchable, explorable, and alive — grounded in what your pastor actually said, not generic AI.
Every sermon transcribed, every scripture reference indexed. Trace a theme across years of your church's teaching.
"When did we talk about doubt?"Your congregation chats with Linger to explore what they heard — getting references, following threads, going deeper.
"How has Pastor David addressed suffering?"When your pastor references Augustine or Spurgeon, Linger takes the listener there — connecting your teaching to the broader Christian tradition.
No drip campaigns. No daily assignments. Your congregation dwells with the word at their own pace. The sermon becomes a doorway, not a dead end.
"His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night."— Psalm 1:2
Get started
We're onboarding a small group of partner churches. Upload your archive, and your congregation can start exploring in days.
Tell us where you go. When your church joins Linger, you'll be the first to know.
Questions
We're still working out the details, but the model will be simple and usage-based — scaling with how much your church uses Linger, not a flat rate that doesn't fit. Your entire congregation gets full access as part of the partnership. No per-seat charges.
We're finalizing pricing with our early partners right now. If you're interested, reach out and we'll figure out the right fit together.
Linger doesn't interpret, editorialize, or water down your pastor's teaching. Summaries and AI responses are grounded directly in your church's sermon transcripts and in established theological sources — commentaries, scripture, and the broader Christian tradition. The AI pulls out what matters and provides factual context. It doesn't generate its own theological opinions.
The AI is also scoped to stay in its lane — it's a tool for exploring your church's teaching and the Christian tradition, not a general-purpose chatbot. Think research tool, not theologian.
Not automatically — YouTube's terms don't allow us to pull audio directly from their platform. But if your sermons are on YouTube or a podcast, you already have the recordings. Download them and upload to Linger, and we handle the rest: transcription, structuring, indexing, and AI-powered exploration. Most churches can get their full archive into Linger in a single sitting.
You do. Your church's sermon content is yours — always. Individual congregants' personal activity (searches, chat history, bookmarks) is private to them and never visible to church leadership. Linger is a tool for exploration, not surveillance.
Linger generates an invite link and QR code for your church. Share it from the pulpit, in your bulletin, on your website, or on a screen in the lobby. People tap the link, create an account, and they're connected to your full sermon archive. You can also approve access requests from people who find your church in the app.
All of them. Linger is theologically neutral — it captures and organizes whatever your pastor teaches. Protestant, Catholic, non-denominational, or any tradition where sermons are part of worship.
Linger is built around being planted. The full experience — your church's sermon archive, AI exploration, theological connections — is rooted in one church home. We think depth comes from commitment to a community, not browsing across many. When your church partners with Linger, your congregation gets full access as part of that partnership.
We're considering a premium tier down the road for users who want to explore additional churches' teaching, but the core of Linger is about going deeper where you're planted.