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Patience Amid Shrill Voices: Sermon Preached on 14th December 2025 (Third Sunday of Advent)

Posted on December 14, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

No society can work well unless people take actions on timescales beyond their lifetimes. That is the ultimate form of patience. Continue reading →

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Christianity and Cargo Cults: Sermon Preached on 7th December 2025 (Second Sunday of Advent)

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Even the godless religions of recent times, from Communism to transhumanism, seek to create a perfect future resembling heaven. Continue reading →

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Live in Light: Sermon Preached on 30th November 2025 (Advent Sunday)

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

The speed with which the optimistic era around the millennium passed should teach us to seek eternal, not worldly, riches. Continue reading →

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Kings Get Killed: Sermon Preached on 23rd November 2025 (Christ the King)

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Preached at St Peter’s, Poulshot and Christ Church, Bulkington Colossians 1. 11-20; Luke 23. 33-43 “The soldiers also mocked him … saying, ‘If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!’” Being a king can be a dangerous business. … Continue reading →

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Out With A Bang: Sermon Preached on 16th November 2025 (Second Sunday Before Advent)

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

How would you live if you thought the end of the world was round the corner? It’s a reasonable question when nuclear tensions are rising. Continue reading →

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Why Are You Here?: Sermon Preached on 9nd November 2025 (Third Sunday Before Advent)

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

You are a seed for something much greater & the universe as nothing but soil compared to the glories you were made for in the Resurrection. Continue reading →

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Impossible Even for Saints: Sermon Preached on 2nd November 2025 (All Saints’ Day)

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

We’re all called to be saints; but loving your enemies is nearly impossible, even for saints. Continue reading →

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Popes, Kings, and Tax Collectors: Sermon Preached on 26th October 2025 (Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Christians at their worst, like the Pharisee, tell God they’re holy while damning others; at their best, like the publican, count on His mercy. Continue reading →

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Persistence: Sermon Preached on 19th October 2025 (Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Persistence can allow us to be record-breakers: perhaps even allowing us to be breakers of the scratched record that our tired, jaded, culture has become, and thus being heralds of a new Christian Spring. Continue reading →

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Be Like This Dirty Foreigner: Sermon Preached on 12th October 2025 (Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

We all have a bit of hatred tucked away somewhere. But Jesus uses those hated by the world to show us how to live well. Continue reading →

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