St George's Epsom

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’ death, and like the saint, we recognise the "allness" of God in all creation.

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 4:7-12, 19-21; Matthew 25:31-40

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 1:15-20; John 6:53-68

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 turning toward him.

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

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 control and master it. Readings: Job 38:1-21

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 toward loss and more about circling closer to God, still bearing the fruit of praise and worship.

The youth lead us through a prayerful reflection on the Lord's Prayer.

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

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 have the courage to "look under the bonnet" when the warning light of anger comes on.

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: Job 31:1-12; Matt 5: 27-30; Psalm 51:10

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 honestly rather than escape it.

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.

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.

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.

Jeremy explores how pride and the maintenance of our 'glittering images' gets in the way of living lives that are fully alive.

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 us not because we are good, but because God is good.

Josh and Jeremy share where we feel the Spirit is blowing and what we are sensing God is inviting us into as a community.

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.

Jeremy interviews a few of our youth on their experiences of God, church and what their generation is hungry for.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.