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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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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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The Paradox of Christianity: Sermon Preached on 1st October 2023 (17th Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

The pointless word games of the Temple 2,000 years ago resemble the politics of our own time. 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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Tides Also Come In

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Gerry Lynch

TIDES ALSO COME IN (A response to Arnold. And to Cupitt.) A stormy sea today. Grey rock pools catch a leaden sky In Lowry hues; not very far away Bangor’s a shade; the hills of Ireland peer, Like dragons’ silhouettes … Continue reading →

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