Jubilee Church Hull

While God’s justice is a cause for us to work out our salvation in “fear and trembling”, Paul’s intention is not for us to anxiously worry about whether or not we are good enough to merit God’s favour. Rather, it is God’s love and enabling grace that will enable us to live as lights in the world. We can rejoice that it is “God who works in us”.

By humbling himself on the cross out of love, Jesus demonstrated that he truly shared the divine nature of God, who is love. Due to his obedience Jesus is given dominion over all creation and one day everyone will rightly give him praise as their Lord. Do our lives exalt Jesus into his rightly place now?

Paul’s beautiful poem, reflecting on the humility of Christ, is an encouragement and challenge to us. There is such theological richness here as we meditate on the nature of Christ, God come to the earth as a man, self-limiting and willing to die. Jesus is the perfect example of a life lived in love and service of God and others. Paul’s encouragement to the church in this passage is to make sure that they remain united, that affection, love, encouragement and sympathy would be hallmarks of their community and that they continue to serve one another in humility.

Paul’s encouragement to “let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel” could also be translated as “only behave as citizens worthy of the gospel”. In this, Paul is reminding the Philippians, who were proud to be citizens of Rome and of all the advantages that came with that citizenship, that in fact their citizenship is now found in Christ. It is to Christ that we pledge allegiance and for whom we live, and our commitment to Him, even when facing opposition and persecution, will be a sign of our salvation.

So, how does our growth in God manifest itself? For Paul, the key is love. As our love for God and others grows we will become wiser, more able to discern what is the right or wrong things to do, and how to produce fruit in our lives that glorifies God and reveals him to others.

Steve shares on how we are investing in relationships during this time and partnering with believers both locally and through our Regions Beyond family in seeing the gospel advance.

As we begin our new series looking at the Letter to The Philippians, Josh explains why Paul wrote it and why we can learn so much from this letter today.

Hannah continues our 'Habits of Grace' series looking at how we find Jesus through spiritual disciplines. In this message we focus on what it means to be family together.

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Mark continues our 'Habits of Grace' series looking at how we find Jesus through spiritual disciplines. Today we focus on living a disciplined life with our money and what it looks like to steward our finances well.

Steve continues our 'Habits of Grace' series as he looks at how we spend our time and make the most of the opportunities God has given us.

Josh continues our series looking at spiritual disciplines as we focus on study of scripture.

Phil continues our series looking at spiritual disciplines as he focuses on fasting and how we find Jesus through this discipline.

Dan continues our series looking at spiritual disciplines. This week we focus on silence and solitude.

Ahead of the launch of our TLG Education Centre, Tim Morfin (CEO of TLG) shares of God's heart to reach those in need and how we can get involved.

Josh continues our series as we look at finding Jesus through spiritual disciplines.

Dan begins our series looking at what it means for us to place God at the centre this year. Does the grace we have received motivate us to live as God intends and do all we can do to become Christ like?

Trevor Payne and a number of friends within Regions Beyond join us for this special Sunday as we pray for Dan Fryer as he takes on the leadership of the church.

Guest speaker, Adrian Holloway joins us as he shares about the gift of Christmas

Steve finishes our series in the book of Genesis at chapter twelve as the story turns toward one man and one family. God chooses Abraham, through whom he plans to restore his blessing to the whole world. God promises to bless all the families of the earth through Abraham’s seed. Through this story we see what it means for us to live as descendants of Abraham and be a blessing to the nations.