Mornings at YCBC

If we search #blessed on Facebook or Instagram, it can open our eyes to what people truly consider being blessed.

'I am blessed' is something that we hear time and time again during our lives. But what type of blessings are we chasing?

Do we want to be blessed according to the world's standards, or are we brave enough to pursue blessing the way Jesus shows us how?

Listen below as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us that blessing from God is so much bigger than a hashtag.

Sermon notes available at https://my.bible.com/events/499802

"Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past, so it doesn't become their future."

- Jon Acuff

We all feel like the leper sometimes. That we are isolated, alone, rejected.

Have you let God turn your weakness and rejection into a contagious story that overflows into others' lives?

Listen as Pastor Deb Stanley encourages us to pursue a faith that is not only exciting, but contagious.

The practice of resurrection is an intentional, deliberate decision to believe and participate in resurrection life, life out of death, life that trumps death, life that is the last word, Jesus life.

-Eugene Peterson

The resurrection of Jesus is the pivotal point of the gospels. It is on this event that our faith rests.

Is it just a story to you, or is it the point on which all aspects of our lives rest? What then should we respond with?

Listen as Steve Hill shares with us the five responses that are shown by those who experienced this first hand, and how those responses are still vital for us in following Jesus today.

Sermon notes available at https://bible.com/events/487819

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

-Andy Stanley

Are you wealthy enough to get into heaven? Emotionally? Financially? Powerfully? Spiritually?

Or is it about so much more that how much wealth we have?

Listen as Kitch Morris shares why where we store our wealth is so important.

Sermon notes available at  http://bible.com/events/484216

No one likes to eat crumbs from a feast; everyone likes to sit at the table.

—Sudanese Proverb

Do you believe that you are unworthy to have anything but the crumbs that fall from the banquet table where Jesus sits?

Or have you opened your invitation?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares the invitation God offers to you.

Sermon notes available at https://www.bible.com/events/480133

"Do you believe in God? I believe in nothing but God!"

- Frederick Franck

Do you believe that God pursues not just faith, but your faith?

Do you believe that He not only pursues your faith, but actively responds to it?

Maybe the question we often fail to ask is simply 'do I believe?'

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares why the simplicity of this question is more than it seems.

Sermon notes available at http://bible.com/events/475960

"Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing."

- George MacDonald

Do we only believe what we can see? Are our eyes truly the only thing we trust enough to use as the basis of our belief?

Or can we ironically only truly see once we believe that which we cannot?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber challenges us not to see with view to believing, but to see through the eyes of belief.

Sermon notes available at http://bible.com/events/471858

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

- Mother Teresa

Too unclean to love? Too unimportant to really matter? Just one in a crowd of 7.6 billion people?

Does God really care about the one? The sinful one? The leperous one? The adulterous one? The gay one? The Muslim one? You?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares what Jesus shows us about the true interest of God in the one.

Sermon notes available at http://bible.com/events/467440

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

- HANS URS VON BALTHASAR

We all have gifts and abilities. Whether we overestimate, underestimate, or just don't understand those gifts, we are all blessed with abilities to be used for good.

For whose good do you use your gifts and abilities?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares 3 ways to start moving from giftee to gifter.

Sermon notes available at  http://bible.com/events/463513

Sometimes it feels like 24 hours in a day just aren't enough.

Our time and energy are two of the most overabused and underutilized things in our life.

How are you investing these invaluable assets in your life? And who are you investing them in?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us some key principles to being faithful with our time and energy.

Sermon Notes available at http://bible.com/events/458372