
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
162 episodes
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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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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