St Basil's Church
A church based on a farm in Devon seeking to follow the way of Jesus for the renewal of the region
Episodes
169 episodes
From believers to tryers
Pete James highlights how easy it is for deeply held beliefs and values to remain largely theoretical and unpracticed. He encourages us to make the journey of courage that is moving "from believing to trying" and casts a vision for the whole ch...
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Daniel: Our distinctiveness is our relevance
Speaking from the story of Daniel, Pete James highlights how – as Christ carriers – our distinctiveness is our relevance to the culture around us and encourages us to be bold and confident in a world searching for meaning right now. In particul...
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From Ordinary to Altar: Words
In our final sermon in this series Jonah looks at how our words can become altars for God’s presence. In John 8, we see Jesus perfectly exhibiting restrained and liberated speech. By looking at why and how Jesus operated in this way, we discove...
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From Ordinary to Altar: Emotions
“How do our emotions become altars of invitation for God’s presence? Jonah explores how our emotions are not meant to view individualistically. Instead, we learn from the biblical texts that our emotions, and specifically grief, enable us to wi...
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From Ordinary to Altar: Decisions
Pete James continues our series looking at how we can practically hunger and thirst for righteousness in the ordinary parts of our lives. Taking Jesus in Gethsemane as a Biblical archetype for decision-making, Pete invites us to cultivate four ...
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From Ordinary to Altar: Home
Becky Callaghan continues our series by looking at the home, inviting us to see our homes as places of worship, formation and surrender—where God’s presence dwells in the ordinary unseen moments of life.
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From Ordinary to Altar : Vocation
Si Topliss looks at how we spend our days somewhere, putting our hands to something, whether that's caring for a child, being in a workplace, paid or not paid. How do we learn to know who we are in God and work as His handiwork, in the work he'...
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From Ordinary to Altar: Mistakes
Dan encourages us to come to know the love of God in our mistakes, by coming out of hiding and being seen by him. We’re called to be a community that extinguish the power of shame as we mediate God’s love to each other through the practice of c...
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From ordinary to altar: Morning, noon and night
Sunday 21 September Pete James continues our series looking at how to turn everyday parts of our lives into altars for the presence of God. Pete looks at a Biblical vision for a 24 hour period and how each part - night, morning, da...
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From Ordinary to Altar: Money
Pete James kicks of our new series “from Ordinary to Altar: learning to make everyday aspects of life places of invitation to God” by looking at our money. Pete invites us to become worshippers, stewards and patrons with our money so we limit i...
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Vision Sunday - Hunger and Thirst
Pete James shares about the posture we’re wanting to have as a community in the year ahead and the plans we are living and giving towards. Sorry about the poor audio quality!
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Songs for the Soul - Psalm 46
Jonah explores the invitation to be still and know that God is God in the midst of a violent world. We find ourselves surrounded by violence and perpetuate cycles of violence. These cycles are rooted in our desire to make ourselves the centre o...
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Songs for the Soul - Psalm 22
Bex unpacks Psalm 22 and uncovers how the psalm teaches us how to pray and maintain intimacy with God, in the contradiction of our pain and His goodness. Looking at lamenting and questioning, vulnerably requesting things from God and bein...
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Songs for the Soul - Psalm 86
Guest speaker John Marker opens our Songs for the soul series looking at Psalm 86 and how Davids understanding of God’s character led him to pray and ask for an undivided heart.
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Galatians 6
Pete James rounds off our series in Galatians by looking at how we live into the formation and freedom described in chapter 5 in community; with intentionality; and over time. Pete particularly emphasises the power of speaking truth in love to ...
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Galatians 5
Becky Callaghan continues the series by looking at Galatians 5, where Paul urges the church to resist returning to the yoke of the law and instead live in the freedom Christ has already won. This passage teaches us that true transformation come...
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Galatians 3
Galatians 3, continues the theme of salvation by faith alone, looking at unity within the church, the new family of God. Paul continues to urge the church to be unified. Georgi unpacks this and challenges us to look at what that means for us an...
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Galatians 2
In Galatians 2, Paul passionately defends Christ’s final and justifying work. Jonah explains that through a particular translation we can grasp more deeply the beauty and depth of Christ’s faithfulness, whereby we are swept up into His justifyi...
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Galatians Overview
Pete James kicks off our new series by giving an overview of the letter and what has got Paul so passionate. Three things rise to the surface: how we are saved; the nature of the church; and life in the Spirit. Pete closes with a question from ...
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Our life filled with His life: The Spirit gives us gifts
We were privileged to have Revd Dr James Harding continue our series on the Holy Spirit, looking at how the Spirit gives gifts. Drawing on scripture and the incredible testimony of his own family history, James stirred faith in us and encourage...
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Our life filled with His life: The Spirit leads us
Jonah continues our series on a living, breathing theology of the Holy Spirit. We long to be led and guided by the Spirit however, fear, anxiety and grief often overwhelm us and we find ourselves grasping for control and as we turn to God our m...
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Our life filled with His life: The Spirit bears fruit
Pete James continues our series on the Holy Spirit by diving into Galatians to understand how the Holy Spirit bears fruit in our lives. Contrasting to works of the flesh, Pete encourages us to stop working harder and harder to change and instea...
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Our life filled with His life: The Spirit Empowers
In the second talk of the series, Dan encourages us that the Spirit will empower us to witness to Jesus and be obedient to the Father when we seek to keep in step with Him in an ongoing trusting relationship.
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