Author Archives: Gerry Lynch

Can We Really Do Likewise?: Sermon Preached on 13th July 2025 (Fourth Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

We’re all hypocrites! So can the Good Samaritan teach us to trust in God’s grace rather than thinking we can save the world? Continue reading →

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Things Don’t Always Get Better: Sermon Preached on 6th July 2025 (Third Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on July 6, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Nobody believes things can only get better anymore. Yet we are made for more than this world—for beauty, truth, goodness, love. And for Heaven. Continue reading →

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What To Do When We Feel Powerless

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

We are made not for power, which often brings out the worst in us, but for beauty, truth, goodness, and love. Continue reading →

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The Chickenhawk and the Oddball: Sermon Preached on Sunday 29th June 2025 (Feast of SS Peter and Paul)

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Paul was an oddball and Peter a chickenhawk: but God leads flawed people like them to greatness; and maybe you, even if you aren’t religious. Continue reading →

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Power and Glory (Trinity Sunday, 15th June 2025)

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

We take it for granted that the story of the human race is to learn more and make things better. But what if progress goes wrong? Continue reading →

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Modern Medes and Parthians (Pentecost, 8 June 2025)

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Despite persecution and even martyrdom, the Church in Iran has grown rapidly in recent decades. Continue reading →

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Fake Miracles and True Love (The Sunday After Ascension, 1st June 2025)

Posted on June 1, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Preached at Christ Church, Worton Readings – Acts 16. 16-34; Luke 17. 20-26 “I … will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them…” When I was in my mid-teens … Continue reading →

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The Feast of Waiting Patiently: (Ascension Thursday, 29th May 2025)

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Ascension teaches us to be less dogmatic and self-certain; a feast of waiting patiently and giving God the space to lead us deeper into the mystery of His truth. Continue reading →

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Happy to See Me Dead?: (Sixth Sunday of Easter: 25th May 2025)

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Of course we mourn those we love who die; but we trust that Christ has opened the way to eternal life for those who trust Him Continue reading →

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Lizards for Lunch! (Fifth Sunday of Easter: 18th May 2025)

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

We need rules; but we’re all very keen on rules we have no intention of breaking being enforced, even as we try to wriggle out of the rules we dislike. Continue reading →

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