St Basil's Church
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192 episodes
Spiritual Gifts: Word Gifts
Dan explains how we can first discover our gifts, and then not bury them out of fear or comparison but share God’s joy as we become activated in them. Then he explores the purpose of the six word gifts, how we might recognise them in ourselves,...
Spiritual Gifts - Following the Way of Love
Dan continues our series by considering Paul’s challenge to follow the way of love as we eagerly desire the spiritual gifts. When we use our gifts to serve one another and not ourselves, God builds us into a community that embody his love to a ...
Spiritual Gifts: Introduction
Jonah begins our new series on the gifts of the spirit. In this introductory talk, Jonah points to 4 different viewpoints we may be inhabiting in our specific community. He then outlines a basic understanding of the spiritual gifts and finally ...
All Taps On: Serving
Pete James continues our series on being a church where everyone plays their part by meditating on Jesus' example of serving. Looking at Philippians 2:1-11, Pete encourages us away from "Success" mindset where we try and achieve over others or ...
All Taps On: Giving
Pete kicks off a series on being a church where everyone plays their part. Pete looks at giving and how the scriptures call us to be worshipers, stewards and patrons with our finances
Pentecost
On Pentecost Sunday, Becky Callaghan unpacks the significance of the moment the Holy Spirit was poured out to form a people marked by the presence of God - living with expectancy, surrender, and dependence on His Spirit. Through the power...
The Life of David: Leaving a legacy for future generations
Liz Bewley, CEO of OneLife Youth charity, closes out our David series by looking at how David left a legacy for the next generation: one that speaks of God's grace not his own perfection. Liz challenged us as a church to be legacy builders in e...
David and Bathsheba: Navigating failure within a life of worship
Dan explores how David’s strength in battle came from his strength in worship, but when his guard was down he allowed a distorted desire to eclipse his desire to remain in God’s presence. When he stops seeing clearly his resulting sin distracts...
The Life of David: heart not height
Pete continues our series on David by looking at the contrast between him and Saul when it comes to the relationship between their hidden lives and public lives. The revelation within the story is this: God’s not looking for height, he’s lookin...
David & Goliath: Facing giants in the name of the Lord
Becky opens a new series on the life of David through the story of David and Goliath, showing that the real battle is often for our identity and faith before we face life’s “giants,” through intimidation, accusation, and the temptation to rely ...
Road to Emmaus
The Bishop of Exeter – Mike Harrison – continues our post-Easter reflections by looking at the Road to Emmaus story. Bishop Mike reflected beautifully on the reality that Jesus walked with them even though they were headed in the wrong directio...
Obedience unto Death
Dan Miles reflects on how we can live in light of the resurrection by trusting in Jesus and responding to his invitation to follow him through death and into abundant life.
Lent Romans: Nothing can separate us
Jules closes out our Lent series in Romans by looking at the beautiful reality that nothing can separate us from the love of God and how living from that truth enables us to live as "more than conquerors". Jules provides a vulnerable and honest...
Lent Romans: Attending to the groans
Jonah focuses upon Romans 8: 12--27 and highlights St Pauls contention that there is a groan deep in each of us and on display in the world around us. But our culture is perfectly designed to dull the groans of our heart. Whether that’s with fo...
Lent Romans: Dead to sin, alive in Christ
Georgi Kapepula continues our exploration of Romans with Romans 6:1-12. Paul is encouraging the churchto no longer be slaves to sin but live in the freedom we receive through baptism in Him.
Lent Romans: Justification by Grace through Faith
What are the implications for the belief that we are justified by faith? This phrase typically conjures up explorations of a mechanism of freedom. However, in this talk, Pete Davies explores the idea that God does what we cannot do. This enable...
Lent: Romans - The Human Condition
Jonah begins our Lent series focusing upon Romans. In one of the most famous verses of the book, Paul claims “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” But what does this actually mean? What glory have we fallen short of and why is t...
Beyond our own strength pt 2: When life shakes you
Pete James wraps up a pairing of talks about how important it is as a church to move beyond our own strength and into God’s strength. Pete looks at the life of Peter and how he was shaken from the fragile foundations of self-confidence and – vi...
Beyond Our Own Strength pt. 1: The role of Fasting
Pete James highlights how fasting wakes us from apathy, reveals the things that control us, trains us for joy in times of lack and facilitates a power surge as we intentionally embrace our weakness and rely on God’s strength. Fasting is more th...
BREAD: The Lamp
Ben shares movingly from his own testimony of anchoring himself in Psalm 37 in the midst of a difficult circumstance. The Word of God can be a lamp to our feet when we consistently choose to immerse ourselves in it and let it form us.
BREAD: The Word
Becky continues the BREAD series by exploring Scripture as the authoritative lens that grounds our identity and interprets reality, forming us over time into freedom as we submit to and abide in truth. By standing in the Word, we learn to disce...
BREAD: The Word of God as a Way of Life
Pete James kicks of a new teaching series called “Bread: The Word of God as a Way of Life”. In a world where it’s easy to get blown about by the “winds of life” we need a rope to hold onto: an anchor in the blizzard. With an insatiable cultural...
Reflecting on the events of 2025
Pete James helps us reflect on the events of 2025 using the milestones of Holy Week: naming the unmet expectations, deaths, silences and new life experienced. Pete encourages us to take the posture of the thief on the cross next to Jesus who co...
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...
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...