Praying in faith Kate helps us to understand what it means to pray ‘in faith’. I’ve been thinking about how we pray ‘in faith’, and what does that mean? In the Lord’s prayer we ask God to ‘give us today our daily bread’. We can’t fake faith or try and pretend we believe, the key […]
Connect Day
Connect Day Last month Jubilee Church family met with two other Newfrontiers churches for the first ever Connect Day. There was worship, talks, youth and children’s work. Everyone had a great time and it felt as though we had all done this before and knew each other well. Since it was a family day out, […]
As Above, So Below
As Above, So Below – What I’m Learning about Intercessory Prayer Becky helps us to understand intercessory prayer and how to be an intercessor. I wonder what comes to mind when you hear the word ‘intercessor’? I always imagined an older lady, sitting in a chair, praying fervently for hours at a time. I wanted […]
Learning from others
Learning from others Peter looks at the life lessons we can learn from the life of Joseph. From beginning to end the Bible has stories about the lives of different people. Each of these life-stories has been recorded so that we may learn lessons from them. (1Cor 10.1-14: Phil 3.17: 1Tim 4.12: Titus 2.7: 1Peter […]
A call to pray… like Elijah prayed.
A call to pray… like Elijah prayed. Over past months I have kept coming back to the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 17- 19 and his national context. I have been really provoked by his faith along with the Apostle James’ encouragement in chapter 5:13-18 to model ourselves on Elijah in a time of […]
Whose report do you believe?
Whose report do you believe? Jon takes a look at the Israelites in the Old Testament and how they responded to their situation. How should we respond to our current situation? It’s Monday morning. It’s grey and damp outside. We’ve just about successfully navigated the first family argument at the breakfast table. I head off […]
Learning from Jesus – praying in the Garden of Gethsemane
Learning from Jesus – praying in the Garden of Gethsemane How do we pray when we are in deep distress and anguish? How do we pray when it appears God isn’t answering our prayers for relief? How do we pray in the face of great suffering? This month our Week of Prayer falls in the […]
Answered prayer
Answered prayer Jen tells us about their desperate need for God to intervene when Tim became ill towards the end of last year. When Tim became seriously ill in November, it was humbling to hear of hundreds of people around the world praying for him, some even through the night, and many we didn’t even […]
Seeking God
Seeking God Last month I wrote about how prayer is two-way communication (we listen as well as speak) and that, in order to build a relationship, we need to have communication at the centre (we can’t know someone if we don’t communicate with them). God wants to be in relationship with us, that’s why He […]
IDEAL
IDEAL I recently listened to a 5 minute podcast where the speaker spoke about IDEAL. The first letters of the words Identity, Design, Expansion, Alignment and Love made up the acronym IDEAL. I thought I might take this word and look at it through the lens of Jubilee Church. Identity Identity in Christ is a […]
Prayer is 2-way communication!
Prayer is 2-way communication! Jodie continues her series on prayer. You can read her introduction at Never Stop Praying. When I first started following Jesus as a teenager I was amazed that I could talk to God and that He would listen to me! Prayer and talking to God was a huge excitement and revelation […]
Breathe
Breathe Hazel has been looking at breath and breathing in science and in the Bible. I had been discussing with a physiotherapist recently how we can breathe in certain ways to help to manage pain. I then found a book ‘The Little Book of Breathing’ by Una L Tudor which showed a variety of breathing […]