Tag Archives: death

Change the World by Living for Heaven: Sermon Preached on 2 August 2025 (Seventh Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

We’re all obsessed with changing the world; but we need to remember to take care of our immortal soul, not just the physical world. 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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Never Mind the Bishops!: Sermon Preached on Candlemas (Sunday 2nd February 2025)

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Renewal is unlikely to come from the top of the Church. Good leaders will almost certainly emerge as a result of renewal at the grassroots, not the other way round. Continue reading →

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Bread of Eternal Life: Sermon Preached on 18th August 2024 (Twelfth Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Those who eat Jesus’ flesh will have eternal life? Christianity is a weird faith. That’s what’s so good about it. Continue reading →

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Heaven in Our Hearts: Sermon Preached at St John’s Devizes, Sunday 30th October 2022 (Commemoration of the Departed for All Souls’)

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Resurrection is not nostalgia nor wishful thinking but an awareness that our lives are but one element of a reality that stretches beyond sensory perception Continue reading →

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Accepting Our Limits: Sermon Preached on 23rd October 2022 (The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

In Autumn’s transience, beauties emerge and vanish again in a few days. Our life is thus. The present moment is all we have. Death is part of life. Continue reading →

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Presbyterians, Salvation, and God

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Gerry Lynch

Cross-posted at Slugger O’Toole. We cremated my friend James on the freakishly warm Friday before St Patrick’s Day, between the two bouts of even freakier snow. We did this after a celebration of the Supper of the Lord Jesus Christ … Continue reading →

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