Mornings at YCBC

“Remember this - you can’t serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.”

— Selwyn Hughes

Why are money and possessions such polarising things in our life?

Do we honour God in all our dealings with money and possessions, or do we just try and honour God with whatever is left?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares a different way of looking at how we earn, give, save, own, and spend.

Sermon Notes available at http://bible.com/events/455957

‘Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!’

-          Seagulls from Finding Nemo

We all like to own things, to have ownership over those things we value in our life.

But what happens when we realise we are not the owner, but instead that we have been entrusted with those things that are not only valuable to us, but invaluable to God?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares why this shift in understanding not only changes the value we place on these things, but how we should use and invest them.

Sermon Notes available at http://bible.com/events/452167

'Our position shapes our perspective'

- Nick Barber

Where are you standing? And why do we so quickly forget how big our God is compared to our problems?

How can we keep our perspective clear and focused on God, rather than on the endless problems and concerns that will face us all through our life?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares some insight into how to maintain a perspective grounded close enough to God to allow us to focus on the Greatness of God rather than the difficulties of our lives.

'Try it, try it, and you may. Try it and you may I say'

- Dr Seuss

What does the Dr Seuss classic 'Green eggs and ham' have to do with evangelism? And what do we need to take out of this story to help us with sharing God's story?

So often we won't try evangelism because we have never tried, we have never tasted.

Has evangelism ever scared you or left a bad taste in your mouth? Maybe it's time to have another taste?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares that evangelism is something that we should not be scared of, but instead, something that we should pursue wholeheartedly.

'Variety is the spice of life, that gives it all its flavour'

- William Cowper

Why then do we constantly and intentionally insist that others must be like us to have what we have?

Is the gift you have been asked to give freely being limited by your own rules and regulations?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares why the answer is not just radical, but revolutionary.

"That was the change of my whole life. I knew that God was real. And no-one will change that now"

-Shane Taylor

What do we do when we realise we are called to minister to what Paul refers to as "the worst of sinners"?

Do we run? Do we hide? Do we impose unreachable expectations?

Or do we, no matter their wealth, health, or social stature, provide a genuine encounter with Jesus to those that He loves?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us why who we are to others should be a reflection of the encounter we have had with the living God.

What you see is effected by so many things in your life.

But how then do you ensure that we are surrounding ourselves with those things that keep our eyes focused on that which is truly important?

What do you see? And more importantly, what have you surrounded yourself with to ensure that you are seeing what is truly there?

Listen as David Nathan from Hive Church in Sydney shares with us some ways that we can improve our vision.

Have you ever thought 'the devil made me do it'?

Life is full of hard choices. Sometimes we are tempted to make the easy choice, rather than the one that we know is right.

We are all tempted. But in the same vein, we all have the choice to fall into temptation, to resist.

Listen as Nick Barber shares why it's not the temptation that matters, but our response.

What will you do with the story of Ananias and Sapphira?

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

- G. Campbell Morgan

 How do you respond to opposition?

Most of us avoid it, calm it, ignore it. But look at the early church, and not only did they embrace opposition, but considered it essential to their mission and growth.

The church is fastest growing in those places where it experiences the most opposition. Coincidence?

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares why our faith is inextricably linked to opposition, and why this is not the terrible news we may think it is.

“And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles”

- Walt Whitman

When did you stop experiencing and believing in miracles? Maybe they never stopped happening, maybe we just stopped realising how important signs and wonders truly are, both inside and outside the church.

Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares why miracles are not only vitally important today, but part of a faith and witness that we are all called to.