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St George's Epsom
by St George's Church
Podcast by St George's Church
Episodes
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Homecoming: Coming Home to Worship - Josh Jones - 11 OCT
Josh explores how with intention we can find our home in the place of worship. In an age when truth is slippery, the Church’s rhythms are God’s gift for forming our hearts in worship so that we can resist all that pulls us elsewhere. Readings: Psalm 1:1-3; Romans 12:1-2; John 4:19-26
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Awe and Wonder: Creatures - Josh Jones 04 OCT
Josh explores how encounters with God's creatures are holy moments of delight because everything God declared good carries his fingerprints. In the words of Dominican Theologian, Meister Eckhart, “Every single creature is a book about God.” This weekend marked the 800th anniversary of St Francis’...
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Seeing the Image of God in Others - Charmaine Braatvedt 27 SEP
Because every person is made in God's image and Christ is its fullest expression, we're called to look past bad behaviour and see each person's inestimable worth, meeting even the difficult with the same grace, compassion and unconditional love God shows us. Readings: Genesis 1:24-27; 1 John...
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Awe & Wonder: Holy Communion - Josh Jones 20 SEP
Josh explores why the Church came to see Holy Communion (the Eucharist) as both cosmic and commonplace—transcending time and space through union with Christ, yet grounded in ordinary bread, wine, in our common moments of life. He invites us to receive it with grateful awe. Readings: Colossians...
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Awe & Wonder: Turn Aside - Jeremy Woods 13 SEP
Jeremy explores how we live inside a buffered, immanent frame that trains us not to notice the Divine Presence, but Moses and Mary both show that God speaks and is recognized only after we turn aside. It is Christ, not our effort, who lifts that veil, inviting us to a life of ordinary, attentive...
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Awe and Wonder - The 'all-ness' of God in Creation - Josh Jones 06 SEP
Grasping God's "all-ness" (over all, through all, in all) starts by noticing, which Josh illustrates through walking his daughter down the aisle in Bali and seeing all the threads of God's grace woven-together visibly in one moment. Readings: Ps 139, Ephesians 4:4-6; Acts 17:24-28; John 1:1-5
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Awe and Wonder - Faith & Mystery - Stan Thorburn 31 AUG
On Sunday, Stan kicked off our new sermon series, 'Awe & Wonder' by exploring how both outer space and inner space reveal the same truth: the more we discover, the more we find we don't know. This invites us to trust God in the midst of profound and deep mystery, and to resist the modern urge to...
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The Spirituality of Aging - Stan Thorburn - 23 AUG
On Sunday, sharing vulnerably, Stan explored how aging strips away the identities and abilities we once built our worth on, weaving personal stories alongside Scripture to show that our deepest identity is a gift from God that doesn't diminish with age, so growing old can be less about circling...
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Youth Led Lord's Prayer Reflection - AUG 16
The youth lead us through a prayerful reflection on the Lord's Prayer.
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The Transfiguration - Josh Jones 11 AUG
Josh explores how the Transfiguration invites us to wake up to the "Divine More" already breaking into ordinary life through prayer, beauty, and unguarded moments; and to carry that back into our daily lives. Readings: 1 Kings 19:11-13; Exodus 24:12-18; Luke 9:28-36
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Fully Alive: Putting to Death Wrath - Jeremy Woods 02 AUG
Readings: Genesis 4:2-7; Colossians 3; Mark 3:1-5 Jeremy concludes our exploration of how the seven deadly sins get in the way of us living into the fullness of life that Jesus promises us. He explores how anger ignored and internalised can lead to wrath, but because we are dead in Christ, we can...
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Fully Alive: Lust - Chris Clarke 26 JUL
Chris Clarke unpacks lust, the disordered desire that hijacks something good (attention, intimacy, love) and turns it toward secrecy, objectification, and escape. The path out towards 'fully-aliveness' isn't willpower but bringing our desires into the light and learning to love rightly. Readings:...
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Fully Alive: Gluttony - Charmaine Braatvedt 19 JUL
Charmaine explores how gluttony is any overindulgence used to numb pain and avoid deeper emotional or spiritual hunger that's only truly satisfied by God. She explores how the path to living fully alive is trusting God's provision and letting the Spirit build the self-control to face our pain...
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Fully Alive: Sloth/Acedia - Josh Jones 12 JUL
Josh explores the many manifestations of sloth/acedia which is not simply limited to laziness, but all the ways we put off doing the most important things.
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Fully Alive: Envy - Jeremy Woods 05 JUL
Jeremy explores the sin of envy and how envy robs us of the fullness of life Christ has for us. He explores the parable of the prodigal son as a parable directed to the envious.
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Fully Alive: Resisting the Pursuit of More - Josh Jones 28 JUN
Josh explores the sin of Greed and the 'never enough' drive for more, and how that diminishes the life Jesus offers us. As an antidote, we are invited to cultivate gratitude and trust erode the power of the hungers that drive us.
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Fully Alive - Pride and Our Glittering Images
Jeremy explores how pride and the maintenance of our 'glittering images' gets in the way of living lives that are fully alive.
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Fully Human, Fully Alive: Intro - Josh Jones 14 JUN
On Sunday Josh began our new sermon series ‘Fully Alive.’ Josh set the framework of our exploration of ‘sin’ being the relational disturbance of God's shalom and all that diminishes the life Jesus offers us. The path to wholeness is not moral striving but surrender to the grace of a God who loves...
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Catching the Wind - 2026 Church Missional Priorities - Josh and Jeremy 07 JUN
Josh and Jeremy share where we feel the Spirit is blowing and what we are sensing God is inviting us into as a community.
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Relationship of the Holy Trinity - Stan Thorburn 31 MAY
Stan unpacks how the Trinity reveals a God whose very nature is love-in-relationship, and humanity is invited not merely to observe that love but to be drawn into it.
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Youth Pentecost Interview
Jeremy interviews a few of our youth on their experiences of God, church and what their generation is hungry for.
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PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM: THE VINEYARD WORKERS - Hayley Lewis 17 MAY
Hayley Lewis unpacks the parable of the workers of the vineyard, and the importance of keeping our eyes on Jesus and what is ours to do rather than comparing ourselves to others.
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Parables of the Kingdom: The Treasure & The Pearl - Jeremy Woods 10 MAY
Jeremy unpacks the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price, and we hear from Yousef and Bruce on their experiences of the Kingdom.
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Parables of the Kingdom: Seeds and Yeast - Josh Jones 03 MAY
Josh explores the parables of the mustard seed and a pinch of yeast: how Kingdom work starts small, stays hidden, and grows by God's power. Mission Partner Neil Dunbar as well as regulars Gary and Beth share their experience of this in their lives.
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Resurrection Hope: Alternative, Not Echo - Josh Jones APR 28
On ANZAC weekend Josh called us to be a courageous, Christ-shaped alternative to a culture hungry for something real by living the Kingdom so beautifully that others want to know the source.
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Resurrection Hope for the Church - Jeremy Woods 20 APR
Jeremy looks at the unexpected increased interest in faith among young people, and how we are called to lean in and be a part of what God is doing.
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Hope in Doubt - Charmaine Braatvedt APR 12
Charmaine explores the story of "doubting" Thomas, and how doubt is a crucial part of faith development and coming to own our faith.
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"Do Not Be Afraid" - Easter Sunday: Josh Jones 05 APR
Because God raised Jesus from the dead, the self-giving love he embodied is vindicated as the deepest truth of reality. Therefore, we are freed to step out of fear and into courageous participation in new creation.
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Palm Sunday: God's Garden of Lament - Charmaine 29 MAR
On Palm Sunday, Charmaine drew together the season of Lent exploring Lament showing that Jesus himself lamented deeply, from Gethsemane to the cross. The Easter hope that frames these laments is that God hears, acts, and saves, and that every sorrow brought to him can be planted like a seed in...
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Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Bonus Audio: Josh Jones sings Precious Lord, Take My Hand
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Lamentations 5: Our Corporate Lament - Jeremy Woods 22 MAR
Jeremy briefly examines the final poem of Lamentations, which now becomes prayer, and we bring all our community's laments to God in prayer.
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Lamentations 4: Our Eternal Hope Through Lament - Josh Jones and Bryan Parry 15 MAR
Josh looks at our lament through the frame of our eternal hope, and Bryan Parry shares a powerful testimony of loss, grief and hope in the eternal perspective.
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Lamentations 3: The Steadfast Love of the LORD - Jeremy Woods 08 MAR
A meditation on Lamentations 3 exploring how, amid personal and global despair, the practice of "befriending faithfulness" by speaking truth to our hearts, feeding on God's goodness, and turning lament into confession, is both possible and necessary.
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Lamentations 2: Finding Hope in Lament - Josh Jones 01 MAR
Josh sensitively explores the theological questions that suffering can raise. Lamentations 2 gives us permission to voice these questions, but we also must keep before us the image of God that is revealed in Jesus Christ at the centre, reminding us that God is not punishing us.
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Lamentations 1: Naming Our Laments - Jeremy Woods FEB 22
Jeremy began our exploration of the Book of Lamentations for our Lenten series looking at chapter one, and how it invites us to express our lament, pain and bewilderment (how!?) to God in prayer as an integral part of shalom and wholeness.
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Locating Ourselves: Prayer - Josh Jones FEB 15
In a week of personal and global grief, Josh invited us to see prayer as the Spirit’s presence within our wordless sighs and aching groans, locating us in hope. And to learn through the 3 Pathways to prayer of music, art, and poetry, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and let Christ’s light push...
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Locating Ourselves: Past - Jeremy Woods FEB 08
Jeremy explores what it means to be a people tethered to our past, and to the wisdom passed down through the generations.
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Locating Ourselves: People - Jeremy Woods 01 Feb
Jeremy explores what it means for the Church to be a people who express the "many-coloured wisdom of God" in the world, and all the ways we might be tempted to narrow down who are "our people."
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Locating Ourselves: Place - Josh Jones - 25 JAN
Josh kicks off our sermon series 'Locating Ourselves' exploring how our sense of place informs our cultural identity, and what this means as followers of the One who had no place to lay his head.
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The Presence of Christ in the Ordinary - John McClean 18 JAN
John Mclean shares a powerful testimony of the presence of Christ in the ordinary, mediated through those around us when we trust in him by faith.
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Alongsiders International - JAN 11
Alongsiders International inspired and encouraged us with stories of grace and hope and their vision to see every vulnerable child partnered with a 'big sister' or ' big brother.'
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Entertaining Angels Unaware - Stan Thorburn JAN 04
Stan explores how God often comes to us through ordinary human kindness, so acts of selfless hospitality (given and received) become moments where the divine is quietly present, sometimes “entertaining angels unaware.”
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Isaiah's World & Covenant: Stan Thorburn - 28 DEC 25
Stan unpacks how trusting human power, like King Ahaz did, leads to fear, while God calls his people to trust the covenant promise revealed in Immanuel, “God with us.”
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Advent 4: Love & Dignity - Josh Jones 21 DEC
Josh reflects on how the incarnation is a divine affirmation of the dignity and worth of each person, even in all the messiness of the human experience. At Christmas, the sign that “God is with us” calls us to embody Christ’s redeeming love by nurturing human dignity in a world that often...
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Joy in Unexpected Places
Jeremy, reflecting on Isaiah 35 and the kids pageant explores the different between expectation and anticipation, and finding joy in the unexpected places.
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Advent Peace - Josh Jones - Dec 07
Josh invites us to let the Christ Child rekindle peace in our world and in our own hearts, calling us to protect the vulnerable, heal our inner child, and participate in God’s vision of a world where all children can thrive.
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Advent Hope: The Lord's Future Reign - Chris Clarke 30 NOV
Chris Clarke explores Jesus’ world-renewing second coming bringing justice and the fullness of God’s reign as heaven and earth are made new. Because we know how the story ends, we are called to live hopeful and ready: embodying justice and mercy in the ordinary rhythms of our lives.
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Being With - God With Us - Jeremy Woods 23 NOV
Jeremy wraps up our 'Being With' series, exploring how being with God is not something we achieve, but how it is something that the "With-Us-God" (Immanuel) does.
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Being With Each Other - Josh Jones - 17 NOV
Sharing stories of grace within the context of our community, Josh explores the importance of 'being with' one another in the context of community.
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Being With God - Charmaine Braatvedt 09 NOV
Charmaine explores how God’s presence is constant in every moment of life. Through Ignatius’ Daily Examen, and Brother Lawrence’s practice of continual conversation with God, Charmaine invites us to cultivate gratitude, attentiveness, and love that make us ever more aware of God dwelling with us.
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