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Reflection on ‘Winning’ for Holy Week: Wednesday 27th March 2024

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Betjeman and AN Wilson thought their Oxford contemporaries who had become priests had “won” in a way they, with all their literary success, had not. Continue reading →

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Reflection on ‘Suffering’ for Holy Week: Monday 25th March 2024

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

A universe without suffering means God controlling us like robots. We are rightly horrified by earthly fathers who control their children like that. Continue reading →

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Reflection on ‘Judgement’ for Holy Week; Monday 3 April 2023

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

Given at St Mary’s, Potterne Matthew 25. 31-40 Do we want to live in a universe where Jimmy Saville got away with it? I found myself asking this as I prepared the readings for tonight’s service. Many of us will … Continue reading →

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Celebrity and Humility: Sermon Preached on Sunday 2nd April 2023 (Palm Sunday)

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

If Jesus made his second coming now, we’d probably hear about Him on YouTube. But what is social media doing to our souls? 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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