St George's Epsom

Charmaine explores the story of "doubting" Thomas, and how doubt is a crucial part of faith development and coming to own our faith.

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.

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 expectation of resurrection life.

Bonus Audio: Josh Jones sings Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Jeremy briefly examines the final poem of Lamentations, which now becomes prayer, and we bring all our community's laments to God in prayer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 back the darkness.

Jeremy explores what it means to be a people tethered to our past, and to the wisdom passed down through the generations.

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."

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.

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.

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.'

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.”

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.”

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 diminishes it.

Jeremy, reflecting on Isaiah 35 and the kids pageant explores the different between expectation and anticipation, and finding joy in the unexpected places.

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.

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.

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.

Sharing stories of grace within the context of our community, Josh explores the importance of 'being with' one another in the context of community.

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.

Jeremy unpacks the topic of baptism and the sharing in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and how through baptism our lives are entangled with Christ.