St Basil's Church

Pete James opens up our new teaching series "Seize the Day: confronting the causes of us putting off God's Kingdom" with a look at what happens when we experience shame and unworthiness. Pete unpacks the parable of the prodigal son and how the embrace of our heavenly Father "whilst still far off" is what should define us, not our shame.

Speaking from both Hebrews 11 and the Exodus narrative, Pete Hughes encourages us as a church that spiritual maturity takes a lifetime and comes from trusting God's power, provision and presence.

Pete James gives an update on the season ahead for St Basil’s. 

Becky Callaghan concludes our series “God Has a Name” looking at Yahweh Shalom: God our Peace.

In our penultimate talk in the series "God Has a Name", Pete James look at Yahweh Rohi: God is our Shepherd. Unpacking Psalm 23, Pete outlines how this tells us God is with us, leads us, provides for us, looks for us when we go astray, protects us and faithfully brings us home.

Dan Miles continues our God Has a Name series with 'Yahweh My Banner'. In the heat of the battle Moses adopts a posture of prayer and surrender to direct the Israelite’s attention onto God, his banner. Like Moses, in times of trial we’re invited by God to put weight on his promise and character - that he is present, he is good and that he is able - such that our lives would also point ot...

This week Meg Loney continues the ‘God has a name’ series, unpacking the name ‘Jehovah Mekadesh’ (The Lord who Sanctifies). This talk focuses on God’s holiness, and how through contact with Him, we become set apart and repurposed for His Kingdom.

Jonah Horne continues our series looking at God’s names found in the Old Testament. Ezekiel declares Yahweh Shammah from a place of exile, despair and hopelessness. Jonah asks, how can we as God’s people hear the hopeful voice of God in the places of hopelessness in our lives?

Dan Miles explores how God is our healer in the face of spiritual blindness and deafness. In moments of trial God allows us to experience the consequences of not trusting in him, here we have a chance to trust afresh, to know him more fully, and begin to perceive the new thing he’s doing.

Pete James begins a series focussing on the character of God, revealed in the names for God that he gives to his people to draw them into relationship with him. In Genesis 22 God demonstrates to Abraham that He is faithful to provide for all of his needs and Pete shares a practical way that he is currently choosing to live in that reality.

On the first Sunday of the year, Becky Callaghan unpacks what it might look like for us as a church to partner with a move of God through prayer. Focusing on what prayer does in us (growing intimacy and surrender) and what prayer does through us (living lives of intercession and being sent with authority).

As we gathered on New Years Eve, Pete James walked through the Easter narrative as a way of reviewing 2023 by naming where we experienced unmet expectations (Jesus on a donkey), deaths (Good Friday), silences (Holy Saturday), new life (Easter Sunday) and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost). 

Dan Miles suggests that in order for the good news that the angels announce to the shepherds to cause great joy in us, we need to receive it with humility and obedience as Mary did, and follow the example of Jesus who laid down his life for the joy set before him.

Pete Hughes, leader of KXC in London, shares stories from the Asbury revival and three ways in which we can align with what God is doing and offer a more hopeful story to the world around us.

Jonah Horne continues our current series in 1 John, chapter 4, where we’re challenged afresh to love those we encounter in and out of the church. However, there are counter forces, antichrists and spirits of the age that convince us to love in our own strength. Jonah points us back to the cross to see what love looks like in our day-to-day.

Dan continues our new series in 1 John about how in chapter 3 John invites each of us to know how lavishly God loves us and affirms us that we are all called his children.

Pete James tackles 1 John 2 and highlights how John calls followers of Jesus to both a high standard of purity and a high standard of grace before unpacking the importance of obedience in how we mature our communion with God.

Pete James began our series in 1 John by giving an overview of the letter's context and diving into chapter 1. Pete highlights for us how the chapter should inspire awe at the beauty of God and confidence in the victory of Christ as well as inviting us to "take a sledgehammer to shame" through confession."

Pete James wraps up our series by challenging us not just to agree with the message of Jesus but align our lives with it. He explains how that involves making costly choices and overcoming that modern desire for quick results with little cost.

On Sunday Pete James kicked off a new teaching series in our new Sunday venue. He painted a picture of a God who is constantly desiring to be at work in our lives making us new. The invitation for the christian is to be people who can discern the ways God is at work and make our lives like new wine skins to receive the new wine he has for us.

Dan shares a reflection from Psalm 63, encouraging us to cultivate hunger for God’s presence and transformative power, by choosing to wait on him in whatever circumstance we face.

As we continue our "Turnaround" series, Tom Odgers takes a look at the story of the samaritan woman's encounter with Jesus at the well in John 4. Linking the story to the beatitudes, Tom unpacks how vital it is to realise we are poor in Spirit and how we experience the grace and power and love of Jesus most fully when we are at the end of ourselves and rely entirely on Him.

Pete Davies shares from the Apostle’s Peter’s life and his own testimony. Change and freedom comes when we accept both the depths of our own brokenness, and the depths of God’s love for us.