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Is Lent What You Do?: Sermon Preached on 14th February 2024 (Ash Wednesday)

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Good works are good, but we lose much of the richness of the Christian faith if we reduce it to a religion of good works. Continue reading →

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Ye Must Be Born Again: Sermon Preached on 5th March 2023 (Second Sunday of Lent)

Posted on March 5, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

Preached at St John’s, Devizes Romans 4:1-5, 4:13-17; John 3:1-17 “How can anyone be born after having grown old?”  “Ye must be born again.” I saw this phrase a lot when I was a kid growing up in Belfast, on … Continue reading →

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Lent

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Gerry Lynch

What am I giving up for Lent? I’m going to try giving up cynicism and unhappiness. Cynicism is worn as a badge of maturity in 2010s Britain. To dare to be optimistic, to dare to hope, is a sign of … Continue reading →

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