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.
