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.