Category Archives: sermon

Are You A Leper?: Sermon Preached in St Mary’s, Potterne, Sunday 9th October 2022 (Seventeenth  Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on October 9, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

It would be nice if we could see everyone as our sibling; but dividing people into insiders and outsiders is part of human nature. Continue reading →

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Harvesting the Bread of Life: Sermon Preached in St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 25th September 2022 (Harvest Festival)

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Cynicism pretends to be clever and doom-mongering to be moral. The reality is, however, that there is hope for our climate. Continue reading →

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Transcendence Amid Our Troubles: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 28th August 2022 (The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

I can hardly bear to listen to the news. Allowing ourselves to be touched by eternity refreshes us to deal with our mundane problems. Continue reading →

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Keeping the Sabbath?: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 21st August 2022 (The Tenth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – Jeremiah 1:4–10; Luke 13: 10–17 “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not the sabbath day.” Let me begin with a story from my mother country, … Continue reading →

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Faith, Gays, and Sandi Toksvig: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 7th August 2022 (The Eighth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

“Just be a good person” is a charming sentiment – from a nursery school teacher or an 8-year-old. Not from an intelligent adult Continue reading →

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Rt Rev’d Christopher Herbert Sermon on Beauty

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Christopher Herbert: “Surrounded as we are by buildings, textiles, hymns, poetry, and music of soaring beauty, our words about God have become drained, empty, and ploddingly banal.” Continue reading →

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Disappointed in Jesus?: Sermon Preached at Trinity Parish Church, Jersey, Sunday 17th July 2022 (The Fifth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on July 17, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Does the story of Mary & Martha make you disappointed in Jesus? Don’t suppress that emotion: explore it. Continue reading →

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A Vision for the Appointed Time: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 3rd July 2022 (Feast of St Thomas)

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

There are appointed times when we find that, for all of our flaws, we are playing our parts in a divine vision. Continue reading →

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Recapturing the Imagination of Our Culture: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 26th June 2022 (Patronal Festival)

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – Isaiah 40: 1–11; Luke 1:57–66, 80 A voice says, ‘Cry out!’ And I said, ‘What shall I cry?’ Some of you will by now know of my fondness for financial crisis movies. One, called The Big Short, tells … Continue reading →

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Jubilee and the Holy Spirit: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 5th June 2022 (Pentecost)

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – Acts 2: 1–21; Romans 8: 14–17; John 14: 8–17, 25–27. “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever”.  Seventy years and a few months ago, a young woman was … Continue reading →

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