Author Archives: Gerry Lynch

Death and Our Troubled Times: Sermon Preached on 17th March 2024 (Passion Sunday)

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everything drops to zero: but Christ’s sacrifice was a divine action, and lasts forever. Continue reading →

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Church Times: Prayer Book can bridge class divides

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

The Prayer Book’s language conjures a beauty that touches the heart, and yet still feeds the intellect. Continue reading →

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Motherhood and Apple Pie: Sermon Preached on 10th March 2024 (Mothering Sunday)

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

This is motherhood at its rawest—Mary watches Christ, even speaks with Christ, as He is put to death Continue reading →

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We Preach Christ Crucified: Sermon Preached on 3rd March 2024 (Third Sunday in Lent)

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Wisdom, like beauty, is a bit ambiguous, with a dark side as well as a divine one; and frankly Jesus sometimes seems nuts rather than wise. Continue reading →

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Losing Your Life: Sermon Preached on 25th February 2024 (Second Sunday in Lent)

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

The Devil promises we can have both it all if we have enough power: but most people with power abuse it. Continue reading →

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Choose Your Story: Sermon Preached on 18th February 2024 (First Sunday in Lent)

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Christianity embraces that all things must die, and new life follows; Communism and Capitalism instead adopt the cancer cell as their model for human development. Continue reading →

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Is Lent What You Do?: Sermon Preached on 14th February 2024 (Ash Wednesday)

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Good works are good, but we lose much of the richness of the Christian faith if we reduce it to a religion of good works. Continue reading →

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The Transfiguration of Technology: Sermon Preached on 11th February 2024 (Sunday Before Lent)

Posted on February 11, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

We seem to be hardwired to giving more credibility to information that comes from a screen than things we hear in-person from other people, or even things we see directly with our own eyes. Continue reading →

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Christianity is Strange: Sermon Preached on 4th February 2024 (Second Sunday Before Lent)

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Christianity is a very weird belief system. Only the way it has dominated our mindsets for over a thousand years obscures that. Continue reading →

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Fragments of Wisdom: Sermon Preached on Sunday 7th January 2024 (The Epiphany)

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

To fall down and worship Christ is, for many, something comes at the end of a long and arduous journey. Continue reading →

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