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Each week we update this podcast with messages from Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters, Team Vicar of St John the Baptist Church. Our vision is to support Barnet to walk in God’s footsteps. We hope you are encouraged by this podcast. For more information about Saint John the Baptist church, please visit us at https://www.barnetparishchurch.org.uk/ (https://www.barnetparishchurch.org.uk/).
Sermon on The Second Sunday of Lent - Fr Sam Rossiter
On the Second Sunday of Lent, Fr Sam reflects on one of the most beloved verses in Scripture — “For God so loved the world…”, and invites us to see it not as a slogan, but as a revelation of relationship. Drawing on the intimate imagery of the Son resting “at the Father’s breast,” this episode explores how God’s very nature is love, a love so complete that it overflows into creation and into the giving of the Son.
Lent becomes a season not of condemnation, but of restoration. In Christ, the distance we created between ourselves and God is carried and undone. Faith, then, is not about mastering ideas about God, but trusting the One whose love is the deepest truth of reality, and rediscovering that we were made for relationship with Him.
22 Feb 2026
Sermon on The First Sunday of Lent - Fr Sam Rossiter
On the First Sunday of Lent, Fr Sam reframes Lent not as a season of gloom, but as a path to deeper joy. Reflecting on the wilderness temptations of Christ, he explores how Jesus reversed the pattern of Eden, resisting the temptations of appetite, power, and control where humanity had failed.
Lent, then, becomes a season of abundance. Through fasting, prayer, and generosity, we are not punishing ourselves but retraining our hearts, turning away from self-reliance and back toward the loving relationship with God for which we were created. True joy, the sermon reminds us, is not fleeting happiness but flourishing in communion with the Trinity, made possible through Christ’s victory in the wilderness.
15 Feb 2026
Sermon on The Last Sunday of Epiphany - Fr Sam Rossiter
On the Last Sunday of Epiphany, Fr Sam reflects on the competing pressures that crowd God out of our lives, busyness, noise, and a culture unsure of truth itself. Drawing on the Transfiguration of Christ and St Peter’s insistence that the apostles were “eyewitnesses of his majesty,” this episode calls listeners back to Jesus as the firm foundation of truth in a confusing world.
In a time of overload and uncertainty, the sermon reminds us that faith is sustained not by clever ideas or shifting priorities, but by returning again and again to the revealed glory of Christ, making space for prayer, worship, and truth amid the noise.
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