{"podcast":{"title":"Holy Trinity Winchester Podcast","slug":"holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899","podcast_index_feed_id":7049899,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6021977/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3627be6e6fd267505d435813f91eadfe.jpg","author":"Jamie Franklin","episode_count":139,"summary":"Sermons and Messages from Holy Trinity Winchester holytrinitywinchester.substack.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T18:18:26.171961+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899"},"episode":{"title":"\"Blessed is the one who is not offended by me...\"","slug":"blessed-is-the-one-who-is-not-offended-by-me","published_at":"2025-12-16T15:22:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899/blessed-is-the-one-who-is-not-offended-by-me","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/blessed-is-the-one-who-is-not-offended-by-me--69080116","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69080116/b2b25e64b538c46994787017c1fe627d.mp3","summary":"Today’s Gospel reading is fascinating. If we understand what is being said, it is devastating, addressing some of the deepest questions of life and faith. Let’s open our hearts and listen closely.John’s QuestionIt begins with John the Baptist in prison, hearing about the deeds of Christ. He sends a question through his disciples, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”Pause for a moment and remember last week’s sermon on Matthew 3: John’s passionate invitation to prepare the way of the Lord, his stinging rebuke of the Pharisees, his terrifying prediction that the one to come would yield his winnowing fork, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning the chaff with unquenchable fire. Things seem to have changed. What is going on?Interpreters differ but I like to think that we are seeing a very human side of John – a human side that, to be honest, I recognise through my own experience of life and ministry. Life is filled with mountaintop experiences. Times when we seemed to be filled with the wind of the Holy Spirit. Times when it seems that we understand somehow what life is all about and what we are supposed to do.But then there is the other side: when all of that just seems to slip away. Sometimes it’s just because we’ve woken up on the wrong side of bed. Life seems miserable. God seems distant.And there are, of course, much worse things – the kind of things that John was facing: imprisonment and death. And life is filled with these things too: we stand around the coffins of our loved ones and say our goodbyes; we receive the call from the doctor that tells us the news is not good; the divorce papers come through the door. There are many such things in life. They change us forever. And they may not heal in this world. They may not be redeemab…","meta_description":"Today’s Gospel reading is fascinating. If we understand what is being said, it is devastating, addressing some of the deepest questions of life and faith.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":975,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899/episodes/blessed-is-the-one-who-is-not-offended-by-me/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/holy-trinity-winchester-podcast-7049899/blessed-is-the-one-who-is-not-offended-by-me.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}