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Saint John the Baptist Church - Chipping Barnet - Sermons

Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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/.

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10:53

Sermon on Second Sunday Before Advent - Fr Sam...

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2025/11/16

In this deeply honest and pastoral reflection, Fr Sam unpacks one of Jesus’ most challenging teachings, forgiveness without limit. Drawing from Matthew 18, where Peter asks how many times he must forgive, Fr Sam explores what it really means to live out forgiveness “seventy times seven.”Through a powerful personal story of betrayal and hurt from his time as a pastoral assistant, Fr Sam illustrates how forgiveness is not about ignoring pain or pretending everything is fine. Instead, it begins at the

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Sermon on Remembrance Sunday - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/11/09

In this moving Remembrance Sunday reflection, Fr Sam challenges how we imagine heaven and the life to come. Too often, he observes, we picture heaven as “earth but a bit better”. A continuation of our current joys without the pain. But, as Fr Sam powerfully reminds us, that vision cannot hold for those who have seen or suffered the worst that humanity can do. For them, heaven must be something entirely new and not an extension of this world, but its transformation.Drawing from Jesus’ exchange with

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Sermon on Last Sunday after Trinity - Fr Sam...

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2025/10/26

In this reflective episode, Fr Sam explores one of the most profound dimensions of faith — the kind of faith that we can hold for others. Drawing from the Gospel story of friends bringing a paralysed man to Jesus, Fr Sam challenges listeners to see evangelism not as a performance or a pressure, but as an act of love, hope, and quiet courage.He begins with a candid question: “Is there any point in telling people about Jesus?” In a world that’s indifferent or even apathetic toward faith, sharing what

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14:45

Sermon on 18th Sunday after Trinity - Fr Sam...

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2025/10/19

In this sermon for the 18th Sunday after Trinity, Fr. Sam Rossiter-Peters invites us to a deeper, more courageous engagement with Scripture. Rather than reading the Bible in black and white, we are called to wrestle with it — to question, to study, and to seek God’s living truth within its complexities. Drawing from passages that challenge our understanding and our times, Fr. Sam reminds us that faithful interpretation means holding Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience together — trusting

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Sermon on 17th Sunday after Trinity - Cyril Awere

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2025/10/13

Cyril Awere shares his story as part of celebrations of Black History Month at St. John the Baptist Church, Chipping Barnet.

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Sermon on 16th Sunday after Trinity - Fr Sam...

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2025/10/05

In this episode, we reflect on what it truly means to be satisfied — not just physically, but spiritually. Drawing from John 6:25–35 and the story of the feeding of the 5,000, Fr Sam explores how Jesus invites us to move from seeking mere provision to encountering the Provider Himself.Using the relatable story of his young daughter learning to communicate her needs, Fr Sam illustrates how, like children, we often sense our hunger or longing but misdiagnose what we truly need. The crowds following

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Sermon on 15th Sunday after Trinity - Fr Sam...

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2025/09/28

Whilst Christianity is often thought of as a dualistic religion which says that the spiritual is Godly, and the world of matter evil, in fact God cares a lot about the material world. In this sermon for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Fr. Sam Rossiter-Peters narrates how Jesus and St Paul simply advise us to orientate our concerns properly, putting God before the world.

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Sermon on 14th Sunday after Trinity - Fr Sam...

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2025/09/21

In this sermon for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Fr. Sam Rossiter-Peters reflects on the difference between knowledge and wisdom, drawing from the insights of philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle, and the deeper call of Christian faith. Through the story of Matthew the tax collector, we see how true wisdom begins with recognising our need for God and seeking Christ the Physician, who welcomes, heals, and transforms all who come to Him with humility.

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Sermon on 5th Sunday of Easter - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/05/18

If our foundations of faith are built in a way that allows for questions, which embraces the challenges of faith, which has room for mystery and the unknown, then when the inevitable period of exploration comes there's a well-worn roadmap to follow. Young people who are taught to question and to think for themselves can use the time of exploration when they're older to establish an adult faith which puts into practice those tools of questioning that they've learned through childhood. And even if

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Sermon on 3rd Sunday of Easter - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/05/04

I realise that I've said to enough of you enough times, this is probably my favourite piece of scripture, that this sentence has lost any kind of meaning. That said, this morning's gospel is my favourite piece of scripture. I love it, because of how tender Jesus is with the disciples.That phrase, children, you have no fish, do you? Always sounds in my head, like a gentle and loving parent, lamenting with their child over a hurt, like a scraped knee. Since becoming a parent myself, that tone, which

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Sermon on 2nd Sunday of Easter - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/04/30

This idea that in the face of guilt and despair we can look to Jesus for hope is the very heart of the Easter message. We don't usually, or often at least, attribute despair to Satan, but most of us have known that sense of crushing weight, the weight of realising that we've done something wrong. We've felt that moment at some point in our lives, the rising tide when an old mistake comes back and the guilt fills us. Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters explains that Jesus has won forgiveness for us in his wounds

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Sermon on Easter Sunday - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/04/20

How would you go about calculating the value of a human life? How about the value of your life? That's a hard question to answer. We all assume that we're valuable, but are you valuable because of how much money you make or what you contribute to society through your job? Are you valuable because of how many people consider you a friend? Are you valuable because you have a family? The question makes us feel uncomfortable and the answer's even more, because if our worth is calculable in those ways,

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Sermon on Good Friday - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/04/18

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? These words echo through Good Friday. They're raw, violent, terrible.They're the silence which follows a question everyone was too afraid to ask. The heartbreak of a child crying in fear and pain. The wailing of a bereaved parent.Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters explains the events that occurred in the lead up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and that those who followed him until this day and through all days would be able

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Sermon on Maunday Sunday - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/04/18

Yet when they made beings in the universe who could choose to reciprocate that love, those beings chose not to. We humans chose and continue to choose selfishness more than love, power more than generosity, riches more than contentment, the ability to dominate more than the ability to serve. Of course it would be easy to lay these traits at the doors of people like President Trump but truthfully they lie within all of us.Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters invites each of us to love one another as Jesus has

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Sermon on Maunday Sunday - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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2025/04/18

Yet when they made beings in the universe who could choose to reciprocate that love, those beings chose not to. We humans chose and continue to choose selfishness more than love, power more than generosity, riches more than contentment, the ability to dominate more than the ability to serve. Of course it would be easy to lay these traits at the doors of people like President Trump but truthfully they lie within all of us.Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters invites each of us to love one another as Jesus has

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Sermon on the Fifth Sunday of Lent - Fr Sam...

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2025/04/06

I regard everything as loss, because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that Imay gain Christ. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters invites each of us to ask ourselves the all important question as we approach Holy Week. How do you give urgently as part of this community? What gifts do you give so that this body can worship at all times

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Sermon on the Fourth Sunday of Lent - Fr Sam...

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2025/03/30

There are a few days in the year which are a joy to very many people but a challenge to some.Christmas especially can be difficult after the loss of a loved one and it can feel very lonely.Valentine's Day for those who yearn for a relationship but haven't found their right person canbe likewise.Mothering Sunday also very much falls within this category. For many, Mother's Day, as it'scalled outside this building, is a lovely day. It's a day of flowers and cards and cake and a veryearly morning if

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Sermon on the Third Sunday of Lent - Fr Sam...

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2025/03/27

As a Christian, as well as as a priest, it has been my experience that one of the biggest barriers to people coming to faith, or even exploring relationship with the church, is the fear that they aren't and can't be good enough. People who don't have much familiarity with Christianity often assume that Christians live by some impossibly high moral standard, one that they expect not just of themselves but of everyone else. I've lost count, for example, of the number of times I've gone into the local

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Sermon on the Second Sunday of Lent - Fr Sam...

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2025/03/26

There can be something greatly troubling about the reality of the human heart. Human beings are, of course, capable of love, justice, and acts of great self-sacrifice. And yet there seems to remain within us a deep-seated inclination to turn away from the path of life and flourishing that God has set before us.Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters explains how in scripture the Israelites in the wilderness had seen firsthand the miraculous works of God. They had seen the plagues.The question this Lent is, will we

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Sermon on the First Sunday of Lent - Fr Sam...

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2025/03/09

Will you take the path that Christ has already opened for you? Will you begin by admitting that you do sin? You have made mistakes as Adam and Eve made mistakes. Will you ask Christ to help you resist temptation because he beat temptation in the wilderness? And then will you follow the path that he laid for you? Yes, a difficult path, but one which leads to the joy of complete freedom.Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters explains that Lent is not about misery, but rather freedom. Because although we know these

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