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We talk about faith, events in the news and give a hard hitting thought provoking commentary. Broadcast on Flame Radio (flameradio.org 1521MW in NW UK). Presenters: Beryl Polden and Peter Cooper (Pete). Editor: Normal Polden Copyright: Wirral Christian Media. Podcast available every Wednesday. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beryl-and-pete--272955/support.
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Amateur Hour explores the weird and wonderful world of amateur dramatics - the highs and lows, and everything in between. We'll be speaking to people from all across the country, from groups of all shapes and sizes, finding out what makes them tick, and why we put so much time and effort into entertaining the public. We want this podcast to bring together the amdram community, no matter how expensive your tickets are, how flashy your sets look, and how good your interval refreshments are. No ...
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Rick concludes the Father series by looking at 1 Peter 1:13-25. How can we become more holy as we live for Jesus? Rick looks at how it was impossible for us to approach God because He was so utterly good and holy, we would have burned up in His presence. Rick explains that when God sent Jesus, it meant that we could come into God’s presence again a…
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Sylvia Billington of Jubilee Church Wirral on the holy spirit. Like the imaginary friend many of us have in childhood, the Holy Spirit is always with us. But unlike that imaginary friend, the Holy Spirit is absolutely real and never leaves us. When God created man, he was given the entire nature and character of God – in God’s image. But then in Ge…
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Helen O’Brien, one of Jubilee’s Life Group leaders, talks about the letters of the Bible. Thirteen of the letters were written by Paul. The man who used to kill Christians until he met Jesus. Helen talks about the purpose of Paul’s letters; among other things, they were written to encourage, teach, ask for help and send love. http://jubileechurchwi…
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Ola Dosunmu, one of Jubilee’s Life Group leaders, talks about why it’s important to build our relationships with God. Ola talks about the best ways to do that – including: – Talk to God daily through prayer– Study the Bible– Spend time with other believers– Be patient and give it time to grow http://jubileechurchwirral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/202…
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Chris Butterworth: Seek first the Kingdom
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Visiting speaker Chris Butterworth on the Kingdom of God. In “Seek first the kingdom”, former Jubilee elder Chris looks at Matthew 6 – essentially Jesus’ manifesto, in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount. Part of the Sermon on the Mount is Jesus teaching the disciples how to pray and what they should be praying for – that God’s kingdom become a r…
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Rick Robertson of Jubilee Church Wirral on Matthew 7: 7-11. In this excerpt from the Sermon on the Mount, Rick highlights how clear Jesus is about the goodness of the father, God. Rick also talks about how Jesus constantly tells us to ask God for help in our lives and helps us with how to pray. It’s easy to stop asking, to forget how good God is an…
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Guest speaker Graham Webb, of Jubilee Church Liverpool, looks at the Book of Ruth. Graham reminds us that God uses “wounded warriors” like Naomi to send a message to non-believers. Believers who remain faithful to Christ, despite what they’re going through, are unusual and powerful and attractive to non-believers. It makes us stand out. By showing …
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Sylvia on the importance of knowing and regularly reading the word of God – the Bible. Our God is a faithful God, but if we don’t have His words inside us then we can’t stand on them in times of struggle and hardship. Sylvia talks about how when Satan tried to tempt him, Jesus had an answer to every temptation. Every question has an answer in the B…
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Tim Hughes with our 2024 Father’s Day message. Tim looks at how fathering is more than biology. Everyone listening to or watching this message has not only had a biological father, but had someone who has had influence on their life – whether that’s good or bad. All of us have been an influence on others too, and all of us want to see more good fat…
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Graham Hill of Jubilee Church Wirral on the Parable of the Sower and what it means for us today. The Parable of the Sower can be found in Matthew 1: 1-13. That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he to…
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Chris Griffiths: Love God’s love for us is the greatest love story ever told. Chris Griffiths of Jubilee Church Wirral looks at love in the context of what Jesus did, why he did it and what that means for us today. Chris also looks at all the different types of love mentioned in Greek in the Bible – Eros (romantic, passionate love); Philia (intimat…
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Rick Robertson: Adoption Rick continues his series on God the Father by looking at what it means to be adopted into God’s family – to become a part of God’s family. Paul talks about this in Galatians 3:26-4:7, Romans 8:12-17 and Ephesians 1:4-6. In these letters, Paul is writing to churches in Galatia, Ephesus and Rome to correct some misunderstand…
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Visiting speaker Keith Cooper on how, in order to get fitter, you have to train – and how this is equally true in our walk with God. To get spiritually fit, we have to Push On. As Rick is formally recognised as an elder of Jubilee, Keith talks about how, as Paul warns Timothy in 1 Timothy 4: 1-5, elders carry a weighty responsibility. http://jubile…
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Dave Frodsham: What we should expect from elders
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Dave Frodsham: What we should expect from elders As Jubilee prepares to appoint Rick as an elder of the church, Dave looks at what we should expect from elders and leaders.• What elders should be• What elders should do Among other scriptures, Dave refers to Titus 1:5–9 and outlines that elders should be: • Able to lead themselves•Able to lead their…
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Dave Frodsham: Eldership As Jubilee prepares to elect Dave and Rick as elders, Dave talks about the Biblical reasons for eldership and qualifications for fellowship. Dave talks about how the church should be counter-cultural and should be governed by scripture. http://jubileechurchwirral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dave-Frodsham-Eldership.mp3…
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Rick Robertson: Always a father Rick begins a series on God the Father by looking at how God has always been, and always will be, a father to each of us. Looking at John 1:1-14 and 1:18, he asks us to consider the following points: God has always been a father Jesus reveals the father Jesus is the only way to the father Rick also reminds us that Je…
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Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has been providing free professional debt help through local churches across the UK since 1996. In 2023, Jubilee opened a new CAP debt centre in our home at The Jubilee Centre in Wallasey. CAP works with people who are struggling with their finances. No matter how large or small the problem, it can help. CAP provide…
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Sylvia Billington: The fruits of the spirit
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Sylvia on the fruits of the Spirit, how we have been chosen by God and how we have to keep bearing fruit, whatever gifts he has given us. Sylvia goes into how the Kingdom of God is not about what we want, but about doing what God wants us to do. If God wants us to do things differently, we should do things differently. Just because we want to do so…
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Guest speaker Jonathan Kent looks at Proverbs 13:12 and Luke 24: 13-35. Jonathan looks at the full verse of an often half-quoted verse, Proverbs 13:12: ‘Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.’ He looks at what it’s like when hope’s gone and asks us to consider what the tree of life is to us. http://jubileechur…
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Dave Frodsham: I am making all things new
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Dave Frodsham, senior pastor at Jubilee Church Wirral, with our 2024 Easter message. Dave answers a few commonly asked Easter questions, such as: – Where does the name ‘Easter’ come from? – Why does the date of Easter change every year? – Why do we give each other Easter eggs? – Where does the tradition of painting Eggs come from? – When was the fi…
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Bonus episode on What is Baptism? On Easter Sunday 2024, as four believers make public declarations of faith and are fully immersed in water, Rick Robertson on what baptism means and its roots in the Bible. http://jubileechurchwirral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rick-Robertson-What-is-baptism.mp3…
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Helen O’Brien: Jesus the Divine Authority
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Helen on giving Jesus the authority to work in our lives and through our lives. As believers in Jesus Christ, with the power of the Holy Spirit guiding and empowering us, we have authority given to us – but we need to be careful to use it correctly. Jesus gave us authority to preach the gospel to help the hurting world, not to harm it further. Thro…
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Dave Frodsham: The Real Jesus – what happens in the wilderness
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Dave continues his series on The Real Jesus with “His call to follow”. On Mothering Sunday 2024, Dave talks about how Mothering Sunday wasn’t originally about mums; it was introduced in the Middle Ages and was a day when you returned to your mother church, where you were baptised. But Mothers are so powerful, having a huge influence on their childr…
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Chris follows our series of messages on who Jesus is by starting to look at what Jesus did. Jesus showed us how to surrender to God’s will. We need to put our faith in God’s will, not our own – just like Noah and Moses. Noah built an ark that was 75 feet wide and 450 feet long taking thousands of man hours. It was not easy and let’s not forget he d…
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Do you consider yourself a courageous person? Who is the most courageous person you can think of? As Rick unfolds the story of Jonathan as he undertakes one of the most courageous act of the Bible, We discover where true courage lies, and how we can live courageous lives through faith, in Jesus, the courageous king. http://jubileechurchwirral.org.u…
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Graham Webb – Raising up elders and leaders
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Graham Webb from Jubilee Church Liverpool on raising up elders and leaders. As Jubilee announces plans to appoint Dave Frodsham and Rick Robertson as its elders by the end of May 2024, Graham goes over what the Bible says about eldership and leadership. 1 Peter 5: 1-4: So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferi…
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20th Anniversary of Facebook: how it changed the world!
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Facebook's 20th anniversary: 3 billion people connected around the world. A lot has changed since Facebook emerged 20 years ago, in 2004. From a modest social network created by students in a Harvard dorm, it has transformed into a gigantic platform for global connection between billions of people. We celebrate and analyse how it has changed the …
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Dave Frodsham: The Real Jesus – what happens in the wilderness
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Dave continues his series on The Real Jesus with part two of “In the wilderness”, looking at Mark 1:9-15 – Jesus’ temptation by Satan. He also illustrates how the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – is all three at the same time, not one on one day and one on another. It is as if the three are in a constantly moving dance. Dave also talks about…
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Guest speaker Mark Bowell of Jubilee Church Liverpool on The Book of Colossians – In Christ Alone. God wants us to know him. He draws our hearts and our heads and as our knowledge of him deepens, we change. Jesus is the active agent of God in every part of his gracious purpose toward the human race and reveals God to us in a person. But he is infin…
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Tim Hughes shares his story of how God brought him and his family to Liverpool in 2020, and talks about how all of us are called to make disciples. Tim urges us to reach the people where we are, and reminds us that we are the people God chose to do it. Tim also shares some “Witnessing Hacks” we can use, including Asking God for opportunities, Bein…
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Dave Frodsham: The Real Jesus – beginning in the wilderness
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Dave continues our series on Jesus by looking at the first 15 verses of Mark’s gospel. Mark’s gospel is very immediate, with a lot of extra detail, focusing on what Jesus did. It also identifies his authority over people and over the natural world. Dave also talks about how Jesus wants us to trust in Him all the time – not just on special occasions…
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Andy Arscott, Running the race marked out for us
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In Running The Race Marked Out for Us, guest speaker Andy Arscott talks about how how we all have a purpose in life, even if we might not always be sure what it is. Paul compared our life to a race. God gives that race a purpose – He knows what we’re going to encounter. He wants us to be the best us we can be and will change us, no matter how long …
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In our first message of 2024, Rick looks at Nehemiah 4. In life, there is always opposition and there are always battles, and as Christians we are not intended to be lone rangers – we are intended to to overcome those battles by gathering together. Rick outlines four ways of supporting each other and gathering together: 1. Being honest with each ot…
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On the final day of 2023, Danielle Wynn shares a message of hope – the hope we have in Jesus. Jesus is trustworthy, kind, loving and generous – that’s why we can rely on Him. We don’t have to rely on superstitions or anything else. Do you trust in Jesus? If not, then, as 2024 begins, maybe it’s time to ask yourself why. http://jubileechurchwirral.o…
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In the book of Matthew, Jesus is called “Immanuel” or “Emmanuel” – meaning God with Us. Guest speaker Graham Webb of Jubilee Church Liverpool on what that means for us today. http://jubileechurchwirral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Graham-Webb-Emmanuel-–-God-is-with-you.mp3By Jubilee Church Wirral
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Due to technical difficulties, we were unable to upload the full message from Graham this week. We hope you still enjoy it. In ‘Who is Jesus? The son’, Graham talks about how Jesus is not only the son of God but also a son to Joseph and Mary and an elder brother to four brothers and two sisters. Graham also goes into the full story of the nativity,…
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On the first Sunday of advent, Dave looks at Ephesians 3: 14-21 and asks us: “What are your expectations for Christmas?” Are we thinking about presents? Church meetings? Our children’s reactions? Dave asks us to consider whether we expect more of the world than we do of God, and challenges us to expect more of Him, not to measure results like the w…
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Rick looks at Acts 10 and the birth of the multi-ethnic church. Rick asks us who we have ruled out from ever becoming a Christian? Maybe it’s someone who we have tried for years to come to God but with no success, maybe it’s someone we have decided in our own heads could never become a Christian. Rick talks about the difference it can make when we …
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Every day is an international day at Jubilee. But once a year, we hold an International Day to celebrate being an international church. This year, we hear from Sola Faluyi and Ola Dosunmu, as well as a testimony from Valentyna Bondar. http://jubileechurchwirral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/International-Day.mp3 Watch Valentyna's testimony…
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Dave Frodsham: Who is Jesus? He is the king of kings
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Dave continues his message about how Jesus is the bread of life by looking at how Jesus is the king of kings. There are many passages in the Bible where Jesus is spoken of as a king: – Psalm 2:10-12– In Luke 1:30–33, where Jesus is announced as being born as King – In Matthew 2:1-6, where the wise men come seeking to worship the new born King of Je…
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Sylvia Billington: Praying in the name of Jesus
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Sylvia on praying in the name of Jesus. Sylvia talks about the importance of praying in the name of Jesus. http://jubileechurchwirral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Sylvia-Billington-November-5-2023.mp3By Jubilee Church Wirral
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Denise Griffiths: Jesus is the Light of the World
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Denise on how Jesus is the light of the world. Light is at the beginning of the Bible, in Genesis, and at the very end, in Revelation. Denise makes four points: 1. Jesus is our light, as well as being the light of the world2. God called us out of darkness and into the light3. Light casts out darkness4. We are a light to the world. Questions to cons…
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Vernon Martin: Being brothers and sisters in Christ
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Vernon on Ephesians 2: 11-22. As Christians and as a church, our focus is to know our redeemer – Christ. It is because of Christ that we can say to other people of different races that they are our brothers and sisters in Christ. In Christ we can know God – and that is the best thing ever. http://jubileechurchwirral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/1…
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Guest speaker Keith Cooper, of Freedom Church Chester, on Isaiah 12:1-6. Keith looks into how, as worshippers of God, we also need to be on mission for God, and how we need to stop shrinking God and His power – otherwise our lives can become joyless, because joy is a fruit of the spirit. Christian joy is not external – it is internal. If we look to…
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Dave Frodsham: Who is Jesus? He is the bread of life Part 2
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Dave continues his message about how Jesus is the bread of life by looking at John 6: 35-59. In this passage, Jesus questions people’s motives in pursuing Him. Are the people pursuing Jesus because He is the Son of God or because they are hungry? Jesus has performed miracles but the disciples are still looking for proof that they can believe in Him…
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Dave Frodsham: Who is Jesus? He is the bread of life
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Dave continues our series on ‘Who is Jesus’ by looking at John 6:1-9 and 22-40 and how Jesus is the bread of life. Just as we don’t get any benefit from bread unless we eat it, we don’t get any benefit from Jesus unless we believe in Him. That’s why God tells us that we must believe, know and trust in Jesus. We don’t have to live a perfect life to …
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Vernon Martin: The five pillars of our faith
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Vernon on the reformation in the church history, what the reformers did and what they fought for. The five pillars of the reformation say you are a Christian by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, according to scripture alone and to the glory of Christ alone. Those five pillars form the foundation of our faith. http://jubileechurchwi…
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Dave Frodsham: Who is Jesus? He is the suffering servant
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Dave continues our series on ‘Who is Jesus’ by looking at a number of scriptures, on the theme of Jesus being the suffering servant.. Dave goes into how Jesus comes not as a king or to be served, but to serve others and to die. He looks at the four servant songs in Isaiah, our ambition to be great and what Jesus says about that, and at how Jesus is…
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Dave Frodsham: Who is Jesus? He is the speaking one
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Dave continues our “Who is Jesus?” series by looking at John 4:1-30. It can be hard to talk to people we don’t know or who we feel we don’t have anything in common with. It can be even harder to talk to people we don’t know – or even those that we do know – about Jesus and what he has done in our lives. And yet that it was Jesus calls us to do. We …
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