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Common Ground Church Sea Point
Welcome to the Common Ground Sea Point Podcast. Common Ground Sea Point is a church community committed to making authentic followers of Jesus who be with Him, become like Him, and do what He would do. Guided by the foundational pillars of Presence, Formation, and Mission, our biblical preaching seeks to deepen our love for God, shape us in Christlikeness, and equip us to live out the Gospel in our city. For more information, visit: https://www.cgseapoint.co.za/
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- Common Ground Church Sea Point
The Fiery Trials - Mbonisi Malaba
Mbonisi Malaba, from One Tribe Church in Nairobi, Kenya and a partner in the Advance Movement preached on The Fiery Trials.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 75: Facing Your Shadow Part 7 Identifying Negative Scripts
What are the stories we tell ourselves that are negative, untrue, based in our life experiences and yet cause us to interpret the world around us? Today we…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 74: Facing Your Shadow Part 6 Exploring Your Family of Origin
We might have Jesus in our heart but we’ve got grandpa in our bones. Today we look into the tool of understanding how our family history contributes to your…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 73: Facing Your Shadow Part 5 Naming Your Feelings
Lacking vocabulary to answer the question “how are you doing”? Running dry with glad, mad and sad? Today we learn to create space and articulate the answer to…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 72: Facing Your Shadow Part 4 Consequences and Opportunities
What might happen if you just sweep your shortcomings and dark side under the rug? What might happen if you face your shadow? This is a question worth asking…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 71: Facing Your Shadow Part 3 Approaching Our Shadow
How do you approach your shadow? It’s ok to realize we’re not ok, but it’s not ok to stay there. We want to learn about who were truly are and then we want to…
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Mark 5:21-43 - Roger Haynes
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Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 70: Facing Your Shadow Part 2 Defining The Shadow
Untamed emotions. Damaged pasts. Less then pure motives and thoughts. We all have these in some shape or form and today we start to unpack them.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 69: Facing Your Shadow Part 1 The Hardest Person to Lead
Ever wondered why it sometimes seems easier to lead others than it does to lead yourself? Today we start to explore that part of the reason it’s hard is…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 68: A Rule of Life Part 3 Building The Trellis
As we end this season today, we get extremely practical about incorporating spiritual practices in a daily, weekly, monthly rhythm that will change our lives…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 67: A Rule of Life Part 2 Prepping The Vineyard
In order to have lives that bare fruit we need to get everything ready so that we can build the trellis that allows the vineyard of our lives everything it…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 66: A Rule of Life Part 1 What Is This Rule You Speak Of?
Ever desperately wanted to become a certain type of person and yet it doesn’t happen? Perhaps your lifestyle is just not set up to make you into the kind of…
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Mark 5:1-20 - Luke Harper
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Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 65: Slowing Down Part 7 More Ideas To Restore Sanity
To finish off this important season we are looking at a whole bunch of other ideas that will help us slow our pace, our life and our being in order to be…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 64: Slowing Down Part 6 Know Your Limits and Get Practical
After laying the foundations regarding our need to slow down and the consequences of not doing so, we begin to look at some practicalities that will help us…
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Strange Days – Ep 63: Slowing Down Part 5 Jesus in Fifth Gear
We’ve spoken a lot of about hurry being incompatible with the way of Jesus and so it seems fitting to now zero in on the life of Jesus himself and watch the…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 62: Slowing Down Part 4 The Loss of Loving Union
Too busy for God… essentially this is how we live a lot of the time even though we’d never say it. Today we investigate the greatest cost of hurry sickness!
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Mark 4:35-41 - Iain Kruger
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Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 61: Slowing Down Part 3 Symptoms of Hurry Sickness
Are you hyper-sensitive, easily irritated or do you find yourself binging Netflix far too often? You might have Hurry Sickness like the rest of us.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 60: Slowing Down Part 2 Fast Pace Low Grace
How loving are you to those around you when you are in a rush? Do you sense an amazing sense of joy and peace when you are late? Today we continue to explore…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 59: Slowing Down Part 1 It’s Impossible to Follow Jesus
Have you ever thought of hurry being one of, if not the greatest enemy of spiritual life in our day? Today we start to explore the incompatibility of hurry…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 58: Emotional Health Part 3 The Journey
Today Paul Maughan shares a little bit of his journey around emotional health and what our journey will look like over the coming weeks.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 57: Emotional Health Part 2 Unspoken Unhealthy Commandments
Is success always bigger and better? What we do bigger than who we are? Today we explore and unpack a bunch of unspoken assumptions we often live by.
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Mark 4:21-32 - Paul & Lee-Ann Maughan
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Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 56: Emotional Health Part 1 Indicators of Emotional Health
How’s your self-awareness? Today we start to look at the topic of emotional health which will be unpacked practically over the next few seasons of the podcast.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 55: Community Part 5 Stories from Megan Davies
Today Megan from our Sea Point congregation shares some of her stories of community being a life line during Covid-19.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 54: Community Part 4 Stories from Debbie Reabow
Today Debbie from our Green Point congregation shares some of her stories and encouragements of being a part of a life group!
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 53: Community Part 3 What Does It Look Like In My Life?
Today Lee-ann Maughan shares some examples of what Christian community looks like in her life and why it’s been such a good thing!
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 52: Community Part 2 Why Is It So Hard?
Commitment… what a struggle in our culture! Between our selfish natures, a commitment phobic culture and now the challenges of the Corona Virus, community is…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 51: Community Part 1 Why Is It So Important?
In this time of Covid-19, we’ve realized that being alone and isolated seems to rub against our humanity. God knows the value of community which is why he…
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Mark 4:1-20 - Louise Gibbon
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- Common Ground Church Sea Point
Mark 3:21-35 - Luke Harper
Join us as we hear the Gospel preached during these unprecedented times.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 50: Prayer Part 22 Plentiful Harvest, Few Labourers
God wants to reach many and have millions turn to him in repentance and faith. He’s looking for people to be involved in order for that to happen and if you…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 49: Prayer Part 21 With Others on the Mountain
Mountaintop Experiences… some love them, some are wary of them. What should we make of them and of getting away with people for the clear purpose of praying?
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 48: Prayer Part 20 Alone With Others
Jesus could be alone with God in a crowd… can we?
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 47: Prayer Part 19 Your Enemies and Abusers
We’ve all got people who have hurt us, mistreated us, possibly even abused us. Jesus calls us to do the most radical, counter cultural, unnatural thing ever……
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 46: Prayer Part 18 Making Big Decisions
We are all making decisions, and in this season many of us are needing to make bigger decisions than we thought we would need to make this year! Let’s learn…
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Mark 3:7-19 - Kyle Peters
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Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 45: Prayer Part 17 A Habit of Retreating
Like any battle, the coming of Jesus’ Kingdom seems to advance in waves. There are times of pushing forward and then there are strategic times of retreat and…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 44: Prayer Part 16 Power and Affirmation
Power and affirmation are two things that many people in general often desire, and they are two things that all Christians need in order to live the life we’ve…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 43: Prayer Part 15 Old Lady Prayer Warrior
Today we are going to learn from and be inspired by the prayer life of Anna the prophetess!
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 42: Prayer Part 14 Bowls of Incense
Why do some churches burn incense? Today we explore the biblical imagery of smoke and incense and why we should hold onto that image and let God inspire us to…
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2 Corinthians 1: 12-24 - Bruce Martin
If you missed Sunday message, or you want a refresher of what was said, take a listen to this podcast episode.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 41: Prayer Part 13 Introducing Luke on Prayer
For the next season we are going to unpack all of Luke’s mentions of prayer in his writings! Today we lay some foundations and get to know Luke himself, the…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 40: Fasting Part 5 Getting Practical
With all the foundations in place, it’s time to plan and prepare to actually fast! Today we get practical!
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 39: Fasting Part 4 Solidarity with the Suffering
Today we continue to figure out the motives for fasting as we look at the fact that it is a way to love and serve the suffering!
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 38: Fasting Part 3 An Invitation and a Prayer
Why do we fast? Today we start to answer this question and look at the fact that fasting is an invitation for the Spirit of God to work in us and it’s a prayer…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 37: Fasting Part 2 What It Isn’t
Is fasting a way of getting God to owe you, or getting healthy? Is it a way of proving yourself to be spiritual, or getting the attention of others? Today we…
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Hope: 2 Corinthians 1:1-8 Roger Haynes
If you missed Sunday message, or you want a refresher of what was said, take a listen to this podcast episode.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 36: Fasting Part 1 What It Is
Fasting is an ancient spiritual practice that we don’t really give ourselves to much anymore and a practice we don’t really know too much about. Today we start…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 35: Prayer Part 12 The Gift of the Spirit
Our Father has promised to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask? What is this? What does it mean? Today we attempt to answer this massive question from these…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 34: Prayer Part 11 A Good Good Father
Ever seen a dad throw a cobra at his little kid? Sounds like something out of a Tim Burton film, but it’s part of the story Jesus uses to emphasize just how…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 33: Prayer Part 10 Shamelessness
Have you ever felt like you didn’t want to bother God? Jesus certainly wants us to never feel like that again because shockingly he literally calls us to be…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 32: Prayer Part 9 His Authority and Promise
Ever wondered if you’re wasting your time with prayer? Today, we allow Charles Spurgeon to remind us about the authority of Jesus and the promises he makes in…
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Comfort: 2 Corinthians 1 : 1-7 - Ryan Ter Morshuizen
If you missed Sunday message, or you want a refresher of what was said, take a listen to this podcast episode.
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 31: Prayer Part 8 Lead Us
Does God tempt us? Could God lead you into temptation? Can God allow you to never be tempted? These are all good questions that many of us have thought about…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 30: Prayer Part 7 Forgive Us
We are called to pray for the forgiveness of our sins as often as we pray, and we are called to be people who forgive others constantly too! These are massive…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 29: Prayer Part 6 People in Need
In light of praying for the glory of God and the coming of His Kingdom, Jesus calls us to pray for our needs. More often than not, many of us have actually…
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 28: Prayer Part 5 Kingdom Come
What is the Kingdom of God? When will it come? How will it come? What can you do about? That’s what we’re chatting about today!
Common Ground Church Sea PointStrange Days – Ep 27: Prayer Part 4 Hallowed Be Your Name
Are we meant to be praying about Halloween or something? Today we chat through the first thing the Lord Jesus tells us to pray about… the name of God!