Mornings at YCBC

Letter writing is a lost art... or is it?

Jesus didn't seem to think so. In fact as we dive into this series, we will look at 7 letters from Jesus to 7 churches, revealing what is important to Jesus in His church. In our church. In your church.

Jesus offers us a thermometer to assess the temperature of the church. But have we become so complacent that we assess the lukewarm nature of our faith as 'hot enough'?

We all know our car has a blind spot. An area that takes purposed, focused effort to look into. But what about the blind spots in your life? In your faith? Listen as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us why it's important not to let our blind spots drag us down into a lukewarm faith.

Letter writing is a lost art... or is it?

Jesus didn't seem to think so. In fact as we dive into this series, we will look at 7 letters from Jesus to 7 churches, revealing what is important to Jesus in His church. In our church. In your church.

Why is it so important to know that Jesus holds the key? Or to put it another way, what door is it that you are struggling to open in your life? Sin, troubles, exhaustion, what is shaking your life and faith?

Have hope, Jesus holds the key. And he stands ready to open the door you have been unable to open in your own strength.

Letter writing is a lost art... or is it?

Jesus didn't seem to think so. In fact as we dive into this series, we will look at 7 letters from Jesus to 7 churches, revealing what is important to Jesus in His church. In our church. In your church.

How do you wake up in the morning? Is it a calm process, or one full of stress and anxiety. How do you respond when you are told to wake up? Most of us are not particularly receptive to being told to wake up. But that's just what Jesus says to the church in Sardis. Join us as Pastor Nick Barber shares why that message may be more relevant for us today than we would like to think.

"It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities" - Warren W Wiersbe

There are no shortage of excuses to let our praise be dampened. Opposition and difficulty don't always mean we're on the wrong path. But they allow us a choice; to stop praising and worshipping, or to worship and praise all the more.

What in your life is causing your praise to be diminished. And what would it look like to, in those moments, praise and worship Him all the more? Join us as pastor Nick Barber shares with us why choosing to draw closer to God during these times can sometimes result in unexpectedly beautiful blessing.

Letter writing is a lost art... or is it?

Jesus didn't seem to think so. In fact as we dive into this series, we will look at 7 letters from Jesus to 7 churches, revealing what is important to Jesus in His church. In our church. In your church.

Just as a little leaven leavens a huge amount of dough, a little pollution pollutes everything around it. What in your life has been slowly but surely polluting you and your faith? And how do we remove that thing, and start to clean things up? Join us as Pastor Nick Barber shares from Revelations 2.

Letter writing is a lost art... or is it?

Jesus didn't seem to think so. In fact as we dive into this series, we will look at 7 letters from Jesus to 7 churches, revealing what is important to Jesus in His church. In our church. In your church.

Compromise is everywhere. A little give here, a little more there. Before we know it, sometimes life has descended into more the compromises we have made rather than that which we think we have compromised for. Join us as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us why Jesus tells us to have an uncompromising faith. And what that really means.

Letter writing is a lost art... or is it?

Jesus didn't seem to think so. In fact as we dive into this series, we will look at 7 letters from Jesus to 7 churches, revealing what is important to Jesus in His church. In our church. In your church.

As we think of faithfulness this week, Pastor Nick Barber asks us whether our faithfulness is anchored to the rock that is Jesus, or if it precariously balancing on a tower that the world is slowly eroding away? 

Letter writing is a lost art... or is it?

Jesus didn't seem to think so. In fact as we dive into this series, we will look at 7 letters from Jesus to 7 churches, revealing what is important to Jesus in His church. In our church. In your church.

Join us this week as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us why, when it comes to the enthusiasm of our love for Jesus, often our actions speak far louder than our words.

What are you hoping for? Financial freedom, relational stability, just to have a break from it all? Where do we place our hope? In our own strength? In the provision of others? Or in something much bigger than that?

Join us as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us why our hope needs to be focused towards something more than what this world can offer us. Something bigger. Something better.

Who does your hope rest in?

Patience is a virtue. How often have we heard someone say this when we are having trouble waiting?

Join us as Steve Hill shares a beautiful testimony of God's provision, even when we aren't waiting on Him, and why waiting on God is so incredibly important, and the blessings that come through patiently waiting on the Lord.

"I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope." Psalm 130:5 NIV