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May 13, 2018 6:00 AM America/Chicago
How do deep personal worship, pomegranates, economic systems, worry, and what I ate for breakfast this morning go together ? Today we look at what appears to be a simple phrase in the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread.” It turns out t
May 6, 2018 6:00 AM America/Chicago
What is the Kingdom of God ? Is it here now, or is it something that comes at the end of the World ? If its here now, how come so many things are still so messed up ? If it’s real, how come we can’t see it ? While there are a lot of serious issues whe
Apr 30, 2018 6:00 AM America/Chicago
There is a crucial tension between the two phrases “Our Father” and “Holy is your name.” Jesus uses the first two lines of The Lord’s Prayer to help us see the true beautiful nature of the God who is. Join us today as we discover how we declare
Apr 22, 2018 6:00 AM America/Chicago
We often say familiarity breeds contempt. It certainly tends to breed indifference and a sort of blindness. Consider a the beauty and power of the Colorado river pouring through the Grand Canyon. If you saw it every day of your life, it would become famil
Apr 8, 2018 6:00 AM America/Chicago
What happens after we die ? Is that just the end, or is there an after life ? Are Heaven and Hell myths or reality ? If they are real, how could an all loving, all powerful God allow anyone to be in Hell ? What we believe about eternity will drive the pri
Mar 18, 2018 6:00 AM America/Chicago
Do we have control over our fate ? If God is completely in control and has already decided how everything is going to work out, do we really have choice, do we really have free will ? Do we make choices, or do our choices make us, or does God make both, o
Mar 11, 2018 6:00 AM America/Chicago
What will be your legacy ? We only get one shot at this life, and when your is done, what do you hope people will say about you and how you lived ? Today we look at two very different people who ended up with two very different legacies. We join C.S. Lewi
Mar 4, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
Why do smart people do stupid things ? Why are we constantly shooting ourselves in the foot ? Why are bad habits so hard to break ? Why do some people get better and better at their craft while others get worse and worse ? In one of the most vivid scenes
Feb 25, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
What’s the difference between wanting the best for someone and being a control freak ? What do truly healthy relationships look like ? Do you have a relationship right now that you would like to improve ? Today we look at two examples of really bad rela
Feb 18, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
We often tell ourselves “I need to get more organized!” It might be true, but perhaps the more important question is this – what is my life organized around ? What organizes me ? Today we look at three people who organized their lives around very di
Feb 11, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
When you think about it, few things paralyze, cripple, and stunt a person’s soul more than… shame. Today we join C.S. Lewis as he shows us “The Embarrassed Woman” so we can understand how to pride, guilt, and shame go together. There is a huge dif
Feb 4, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
Do I lean towards Optimism, Do I lean towards Pessimism, Or do I lean on Jesus? Today we discover that two very common sense approaches to life actually keep us from seeing the Kingdom of God. We take a look at two characters in the Great Divorce, Ikey th
Jan 28, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
How do you know if a spiritual leader is leading you closer to God or farther away ? Today we come to the story of the Bishop in C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. We begin with a dramatic reading from the book. Join us as we dig in to 1 Timothy 3:1-17 to
Jan 21, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
Have you ever met people who have a litany ? A litany of all the reasons why they are OK and why all their problems are somebody else’s fault ? It’s not just other people – all of us are tempted to be full of excuses, finding ways to tell ourselves
Jan 14, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
Are you facing any choices in your life right now ? Have you noticed recurring streams of thought – on going conversations you have with yourself about yourself or about others that you know are no good ? Today we begin our sermon series on the Great Di
Jan 7, 2018 5:00 AM America/Chicago
The New Year can be a great time to think about where we are, where we want to be, and most importantly, who we want to be in the year ahead. Erwin McManus’s new book, The Last Arrow, is a challenge to live life well and live life large – to the glory
Dec 17, 2017 5:00 AM America/Chicago
If the Holy Spirit of the living God were to come to you (in the middle of everything you are facing in your life right now), and ask you a question… what would it be ? Stop and think about it for a moment. Is God asking you a question right now ? Today
Dec 10, 2017 5:00 AM America/Chicago
It is one thing to read an old book and there find sayings from a long dead author that you find very meaningful. It is quite another thing to believe that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, God speaks in the present tense to you through the ancient words
Dec 3, 2017 5:00 AM America/Chicago
What if our natural curiosity, our desire to know the truth about Science, Nature, Philosophy, Art … is a gift from God, meant to lead us to the source of all those things – The maker of Heaven and Earth. The Advent Story reveals that the Holy Spirit
Nov 26, 2017 5:00 AM America/Chicago
Thanksgiving – or the practice of giving thanks – turns out to be far more essential for our happiness than we realize. It also forms the foundation of the life of faith. And the book of James builds upon that foundation of faith and asks “OK, if I
Oct 29, 2017 5:58 PM America/Chicago
On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, it turns out that the truth Martin Luther re-discovered is exactly what we need in our own lives today. Join us as we dig into the book of James and the teaching of Paul and discover that rather than contradict
Oct 15, 2017 6:00 AM America/Chicago
This morning we start with two questions: #1 -What is the bible really? #2 Could a simple image from a comic book from the 1930’s change the way you see the world ? This morning we look at the scriptures the way James saw them so we can understand why h
Oct 1, 2017 6:05 AM America/Chicago
In the last of our Vital Signs series, we ask how am I doing Spiritually really ? We look at four gauges from Acts, and three messages we need to hear from God. But first we learn why our Pastor cut the tip off his finger last week.
Sep 24, 2017 2:00 PM America/Chicago
How is your relationship with money -really ? It turns out that the bible has a lot to say about the impact our finances have on our spiritual life. The very practical self-evaluation you can do with this podcast will help you treat money the way that God