Sometimes we feel like we are lost in the wilderness. No idea where we are, where we're going, or what the future holds.How do we find our way when it feels like there is no direction through, no path in, and no end to the wilderness?Join us as Pastor Nick Barber shares why, if we follow the example of Jesus rather than the example of Israel, there is wisdom to help us through the times we are struggling through the wilderness.

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Wisdom For The Wilderness

Taylor Swift famously sang "Are we out of the woods yet....are we in the clear yet". And at this time in our lives and our society, it's a question a lot of us are asking.But what do we do when the answer is 'not yet'? When the difficulties last longer than we have the ability in ourselves to cope with?Join us as Pastor Nick Barber encourages us that what we can see is not always what we should be looking at.

Are We Out Of The Woods Yet

We have every ability to just come to Jesus. But we constantly try and earn our way to God.But what if God is just calling us to come back. To put down our work, and our striving, and come back to the love that we had first?Join us as Keith Todd shares with us why now really is the time to come back to the love that we had first.

First Love

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance- Abigail AdamsWe hear a lot about perseverence. But what is it? And why is it important?Join us as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us 10 practical and biblical keys to building a faith and life that will last the distance.

Perseverance

Life is difficult, isn't it? God has done so much in our lives, but have we taken over the work of supporting and carrying burdens that just aren't ours?Whose timeline are we operating on? And if He started it, whose responsibility is it to finish it?Join us as Pastor Nick Barber shares with us where our confidence should be coming from, and why that's such good news in our often busy and chaotic lives.

Confident

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.

Check Your Blind Spot - Dear Church Part VII

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.

I Hold The Key - Dear Church Part VI

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.

Wake Up! - Dear Church Part V

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

What Do We Allow To Dampen Our Praise?

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.

Unpolluted - Dear Church Part IV

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.

Uncompromised Faith - Dear Church Part III

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? 

Be Faithful - Dear Church Part II

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.

First Love - Dear Church Part I

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?

Put Your Hope In God

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

Waiting

"Loved by Jesus, Sent by Jesus, Love like Jesus"Join us each week as we look to Jesus to help us find the answers to the hard questions of life.New episodes available Monday each week.

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