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If You Sell Everything You Have, I’ll Buy You Lunch: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 7th October 2021 (The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

If you sell everything you have, I’ll buy you lunch; but as you probably won’t, remember you didn’t earn heaven. It was a gift of God, so don’t judge others. Continue reading →

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Stumbling Blocks and Salt: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 26 September 2021 (The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

How do we work constructively with those we disagree with for the common good, without losing the saltiness that challenges corruption and incompetence? Continue reading →

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Wisdom and the Cross: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 12 September 2021 (The Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – Wisdom 7:26 – 8:1; Mark 8:27–38 “She is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars.” In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. On a … Continue reading →

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Doers Not Merely Hearers: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 28th August 2021 (The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – James 1.17-27; Mark 7.1-8,14,15,21-23 “…be doers of the word, and not merely hearers…” In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “The Western mind is like a tuning fork calibrated … Continue reading →

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Treasure in Clay Jars: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 25 July 2021 (St James’ Day)

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – 2 Corinthians 4:7–15; Matthew 20:20–28 “…we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.” In the name of the Father, … Continue reading →

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The Baptist’s Wounds: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, 11 July 2021 (The Sixth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

Prophets continue to be made martyrs for speaking truth to power; the prophet I knew best personally instead taught me about the reality of Resurrection. Continue reading →

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Like A Mustard Seed: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, 13 June 2021 (The Second Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

The parable of the mustard seed isn’t just about big things coming from small beginnings, but about things that seemed to fail actually being essential. Continue reading →

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Higher State of Consciousness: Sermon Preached at St Mary’s, Devizes on Ascension Day, 13 May 2021

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

“So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’” Readings – Acts 1:1-11; Luke 24:44-53. May I speak in the name of God who is Father, Son, … Continue reading →

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Easter Day Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, 4 April 2021

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

True Resurrection is bewildering & frightening, as it was for the women who were its first witnesses, but that is the only way to new life. Continue reading →

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Clearing the Temple of our Souls: Sermon Preached Digitally for St John with St Mary, Devizes, on Sunday 7 March 2021

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, John 2: 13-22 May I speak in the name of God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. I love Giotto’s painting of the scene in the Temple in Jerusalem that forms the centrepiece of … Continue reading →