Sunday 6th June | This Is Us: Following The Way Of Jesus “This Is Us" is a teaching series exploring the vision and values of the church. In this first instalment, Pete James looks at what it means to be "apprentices" who are "following the way of Jesus" in our every day lives.
Sunday 13th June | This Is Us: Together "This is Us" is a teaching series exploring the vision and values of the church. In this second message, Pete James explains how critical it is that we follow the way of Jesus, together. He explains how the rise of individualism has created a preference based society but that the church has to swim against that tide to create a Christ-like community that will be a witness in the world.
Sunday 21st June | This Is Us: For The Renewal Of The Region "This is Us" is a teaching series exploring the vision and values of the church. In this third talk, Pete James unpacks the grand narrative of scripture as one moving from creation to renewal and explains how we are invited to join God in his mission to make all things new. He outlines the call on us to live lives characterised by kinship with the marginalised; showing mercy in the face of symptoms and seeking justice in the face of causes.
Sunday 4th July | This Is Us: The Descending Life "This is Us" is a teaching series exploring the vision and values of the church. This week we shift to exploring the "Common Life" of the church: four ways of living that we want to define us. First up, Pete James takes a look at how Jesus lived a counter-cultural "descending life" and invites us into the same radical way of life.
Sunday 11th July | This Is Us: The Presence Driven Life '“This is Us” is a teaching series exploring the vision and values of the church. This week Dan Miles looks at our calling to live a '“Presence Driven Life” – exploring the consistent calling on God’s people to live distinctive lives, hosting God’s presence for the sake of the world around them.
Sunday 18th July | This Is Us: The Open Life “This is Us” is a teaching series exploring the vision and values of the church. This week we look at one of the four ways of living that we want to define us: The Open Life.
Sunday 25th July | This Is Us: The Imaginative Life "This is Us" is a teaching series exploring the vision and values of St Basil's. This week we wrapped up the series by looking at The Imaginative Life. Pete James describes how living with prophetic imagination – believing what could be in the face of what currently is – is one of the primary tasks of the church. If we are to live like this we have to push back against the tides of desensitisation, discounting ourselves and demoralisation.
Sunday 2nd May | One Body Many Parts: The Community of Difference Pete James kicks off our new teaching series called "One body, many parts: everyone is significant in the kingdom of God" by talking about being a Community of Difference. Pete explains that a weak understanding of difference leads to comments, comparison and competition whereas when we understand God designs and delights in difference, we can celebrate each other and play our part in the unfolding story of the church."
Sunday 9th May | One Body Many Parts: The Community of Unity In the second talk in the series "One body, many parts" Pete James looks at the importance of being a Community of Unity. Pete explains that empathy – sharing in sufferings and joys – is at the heart of Paul's vision for the body of Christ and invites us to prioritise vulnerability, forgiveness and prayer.
Sunday 16th May | One Body Many Parts: A Community of Gifts Dan Miles continues the series by looking at how we’re called to be a Community of Gifts. The Spirit of God within each of us seeks to impart and activate gifts, so that as followers of Christ we can fulfil our purpose in mobilising the Church, His body, to be an agent of kingdom renewal in the world.
Sunday 23rd May | One Body Many Parts: Community of the Spirit Ele Mumford concludes our series on Pentecost Sunday by celebrating the role of the Holy Spirit in the church. By unpacking Acts 2 and sharing stories of God at work, Ele reminds us afresh that the Holy Spirt changes us, empowers us and fills us.
Sunday 11th April | Emerging Through Pain: In part one of our teaching series called “Emerging: dynamics of life after lockdown”, Pete James looks at “emerging through pain”. Making the point that the year to come will largely be shaped by how we deal with our pain from the year that’s just gone, Pete invites us to bring our pain to Jesus to be transformed.
Sunday 18th April | Emerging To People: In part two of our teaching series called “Emerging: dynamics of life after lockdown”, Pete James looks at “emerging to people”. Observing that people seem to be experiencing both excitement and anxiety about emerging to community again, Pete explains there is grace for this moment and yet an invitation to courage too.
Sunday 25th April | Emerging With Priorities: In the final talk of this mini-series looking at the dynamics of life after lockdown, Pete James look at the opportunity this time presents to let Jesus reshape our priorities in life. As our lives are "put back together again" the invitation is towards rightly-ordered loves and diaries that reflect the values of Jesus.