Saint John the Baptist Church - Chipping Barnet - Sermons

Saint John the Baptist Church - Chipping Barnet - Sermons

por Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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Sermon on the The Feast of St Mary Magdalene - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

Today, we remember St Mary Magdalene, Fr Sam focuses on a truth which my Pentecostal charismatic upbringing taught him. Fr Sam speaks about the fact there is no relationship without emotion. Whilst it might be comfortable for us who prefer a more contemplative Anglican approach to worship to consider our type of worship the norm, Worship of our Gods throughout the ages has in fact tended to be much more lively and much more emotive.

Sermon on the Seventh Sunday After Trinity - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

Do we have the strength to speak truth to power? Speaking truth to power is risky, because it means boldly proclaiming uncomfortable truths to people with power over you. Fr Sam speaks about account of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the consequences that he faced prior to his death.

Sermon on the Sixth Sunday After Trinity - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

This sermon touches on Saint Mark's account of Jesus healing people, noting the tone of benign indifference in the passage. This tone may be due to the Messianic secret principle in St. Mark's gospel, where Jesus asks healed people to keep quiet about their miracles. Theologians debate why Jesus asked people not to mention the miracles he performed, suggesting it may have been an early example of reverse psychology. Fr Sam speaks about as despite having enough reasons to be famous, Jesus insisted on secrecy, which some speculate was to make him more famous through reverse psychology.

Sermon on the birth of John the Baptist Patronal Festival - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

The best public servants are rarely completely popular. Could it be that as human beings we tend to demand a just world, particularly of our public servants, of our leaders, even though we find out that the unjust world unjustly benefits us. In his sermon today, Fr Sam speaks about as how as a people we can choose to serve others and follow the call of Jesus Christ, who is the true servant.

Sermons on the Visit of The Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

Do you consider yourself a just person? Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. In his sermon today, Fr Sam speaks about how we can leverage our Christian faith to address injustice in our world.

Sermon on Maunday Sunday - Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters

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 loved us. This is to dedicate ourselves to love so much that we have to share it. We have to share it with people who don't understand it, don't appreciate us, don't thank us for it, even hate us for it, but who need it just like we do. This Maundy Thursday as we prepare to walk with Jesus through the valley of the shadow of death, knowing that he goes in our stead, may we ask for his grace to love as he loved, to love so abundantly that kings and emperors are shamed by it.

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