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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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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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Life Punishes the Late—Adapt or Die

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. The old order is dead. Adapt or die. Continue reading →

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What if there were another Dunkirk?: Sermon Preached on 10th November 2024 (Remembrance Sunday)

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

I wonder if it had to, could the UK do again what it did in the Second World War? Continue reading →

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Choose Your Story: Sermon Preached on 18th February 2024 (First Sunday in Lent)

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Christianity embraces that all things must die, and new life follows; Communism and Capitalism instead adopt the cancer cell as their model for human development. Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget: Sermon Preached on 7th May 2023 (Coronation Sunday)

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

Democracy, pluralism, equality & free expression emerged from Christian foundations. It’s a risky bet that they’ll survive Christendom’s passing. Continue reading →

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Our Best Laid Plans: Sermon Preached on 30 April 2023 (Fourth Sunday of Easter)

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

Preached at St Mary’s, Potterne (Devizes Deanery Choral Evensong) Readings – Ezra 3: 1–13; Ephesians 2: 11–22         “And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; ‘because he is good, for his mercy endureth for … Continue reading →

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Salt, Light, and Doomed Rulers: Sermon Preached on 5th February 2023 (Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany)

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

Even the mightiest are at the mercy of forces beyond any control. Be salt & light, and you have the toolkit for even the most chaotic times. Continue reading →

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View from Yerevan in The Tablet

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

It’s good to be in print in this week’s The Tablet (11 August 2022 edition) with a “View from Yerevan” – a piece about beautiful town planning, the revival and the absence of churches, losing a war, refugees from far … Continue reading →

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A Vision for the Appointed Time: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 3rd July 2022 (Feast of St Thomas)

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

There are appointed times when we find that, for all of our flaws, we are playing our parts in a divine vision. Continue reading →

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