
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
148 episodes
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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Our life filled with His life: The Spirit reveals
Becky kicks off our new series, "Our Life, Filled with His Life: A Living, Breathing Theology of the Holy Spirit”, with an overview of the Holy Spirit’s role throughout the biblical narrative, focusing on the promise of His presence in...
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Easter Sunday 2025
Through the story of Lazarus, Dan explores how Jesus grows our faith in him when we choose to trust him in times of hardship. As we ask that even now he would bring life out of death we are formed into Easter people in a Good Friday wo...
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Behind Closed Doors: Forgiveness
"Tim May, visiting from KXC in London, concludes our series by looking at the power and importance of forgiveness: both receiving it and extending it. He exhorts us to become a church famous for our forgiveness"...
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Behind Closed Doors: Living out of our 'daily desert'
Guest preacher, Joshua Luke Smith, continues our series "Behind Closed Doors". He looks at how Jesus drew strength from times in the wilderness and encouraged us all to find our own 'daily desert'.
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Mothering Sunday: A New Testament understanding of motherhood
On Mothering Sunday, Jonah shares a New Testament understanding of motherhood. He looks at how Jesus exemplifies honouring his mother on the cross, instituting a new family marked by subversive relationships and how this act inspired and energi...
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Behind Closed Doors: Renewal of the Heart’s Desires
Dan continues our series by encouraging us to cultivate hearts that want what God wants. Fruitfulness comes from abiding in God - here we cultivate a desire to see his will come into fruition, and grow in trust that when we follow his will for ...
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“Behind Closed Doors: God‘s renewal in the unseen places of our lives”.
Pete James kicks off our Lent Series "Behind Closed Doors". Looking at Jesus in Gethsemane, Pete invites us to strengthen our inner lives in the Lord so they are robust enough for our outer lives.
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Josiah: Defiant spiritual practices to live in the story of God
Pete James closes out our series on the life of Josiah by encouraging us as a church to a spiritual defiance embodied in practices that help us live in the story of God and not let our hearts be won over by idols.
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Josiah: Responding to the word of God with repentance
Josiah’s personal repentance led to a corporate renewal that prepared a generation to thrive in exile. Dan explores how we can cultivate a humble and responsive heart like Josiah’s, so that we also can participate in the work God wants to do in...
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Josiah: Rediscovering the word of God
Jonah continues our series on lessons from Josiah's life by diving deeper into the discovery of the scriptures in 2 Kings 22. Highlighting the central role of the word of God in how God brings about renewal, Jonah asks us the question: are we l...
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Josiah: A blueprint for renewal
Pete James opens up our new series on Josiah, giving an overview of the storyline and the lessons we can all take from his life. Pete walked us through Josiah's "blueprint" for renewal: taking responsibility for what happened on his watch; reco...
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Presence-driven Life and the dark night of the soul
In the final instalment of the series, Georgi Kapepula speaks from her testimony about what is often termed a "dark night of the soul" and when it’s harder to "feel" God's presence. Georgi invites us to not give up, look for the deeper, maturin...
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Presence-driven Life: seeking His face in the waiting
Dan unpacks Jesus’ parable about waiting for the bridegroom in Matt 25, inviting us to see that God prepares us in times of waiting - He’ll grow our faith if we continue to cry out to him instead of reducing our expectations or taking things in...
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Presence-driven Life: don't die in a blizzard of triviality
Pete James continues our series of short reflections on how to prioritise the presence of God in our lives. Speaking from 1 Corinthians 10 – "everything is permissaible but not everything is beneficial" – he calls our attention to the things in...
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Presence-driven Life: foot pumps from the Nile or rains from heaven
Speaking from Deuteronomy 11, Pete James offers a brief reflection on the difference between “footpumps from the Nile or rains from heaven” and offers an invitation to not live dependant on our own strength and skill in the year ahead.
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Journeying towards Spiritual Sight in the Year Ahead
Dan Miles describes how praying The Examen can help us to see how Jesus has been at work in the day (or year) just gone, which helps us to grow in seeing him at work in each present moment. As we then choose to follow him in trusting obedience,...
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For the Sake Of: Sent with words and wonders
Sunday 17 November | As Jesus was sent proclaiming the Kingdom and demonstrating it with signs that lead to wonder, so are we. Ele Mumford unpacks this principle in a faith-stirring, commissioning talk.
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For the Sake Of: Sent to show us what truly matters
Sunday 10 November | Becky Callaghan continues our series unpacking how Jesus’ passionate pursuit for proximity both to his Father and to humanity, fuelled his mission on earth. By walking in true holiness and love, He challenged religious oppr...
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For The Sake Of: Sent to eat and drink with the outcast
Jonah Horne continues our series ‘For the Sake Of’ by looking at how we often neglect and ignore people in our lives much like Simon in Luke 7. Simon is intrigued by the person Jesus, but not captivated by him. To love those everyone e...
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Harvest Festival 2024
This week we celebrated harvest festival together and Pip Campbell-Clause spoke to us – in a theologically rich and deeply practical talk - about how we should see Jesus not just as saviour but also as creator. Pip unpacked the importance of cr...
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For The Sake Of: Sent with humility to serve
Sunday 29 September | Continuing our "For the Sake Of" series, Pete James unpacks the moment Jesus washes the disciples feet alongside the stunning theology of Philippians 2. Jesus, taking the form of a servant, redefines the culturally accepte...
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For The Sake Of: Sent across boundaries to dwell amongst the other
Sunday 22 September | Dan Miles begins a series reflecting on how we can become a church for the sake of those around us. He unpacks how God invites us as the church to participate in the movement of his love towards a hurting world. He also ex...
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