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What happens when everything in life is built around your preferences? In this message, Pastor Jarrett Stevens explores how a culture of customization and consumerism can shape the way we approach church and faith. But God’s vision for the church isn’t something we consume. It’s something we belong to. You don’t just have a place here. You have a part to play. Every person has a part. Every part has a purpose. So here’s the invitation. What would it look like for you to step in and play your part? 📖 Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago #Church #Faith #Purpose #SoulCityChurch

What if the life you’re chasing is costing you more than you realize? In this message, Pastor Jarrett Stevens explores how a culture built on comfort and convenience can shape a version of faith that asks very little of us and changes even less. But Jesus offers a different way. A way that leads to real life, even if it comes at a cost. A faith that asks little of you changes little in you. So here’s the question. What might the cross need to cost you this week? 📖 Luke 9 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago #Faith #FollowJesus #SpiritualGrowth #SoulCityChurch

What if the story you’re believing could change everything? Easter is the story of resurrection, new life, and the hope God is still writing today. In this message, Pastor Jarrett walks through the moment Mary stood at the empty tomb expecting the worst, only to discover something better than she could have imagined. When Jesus is who you’re looking for, it changes what you’re looking at. So here’s the invitation. In whatever you’re facing right now, what would it look like to look for Jesus in the middle of it? If you want to begin or grow a real relationship with Jesus, check out our Get To Know Jesus resource page. 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago #Faith #Hope #Easter #SoulCityChurch

What do we miss when we misunderstand Jesus? In this message, we explore how easy it is to shape Jesus around our own desires instead of aligning our lives with His Kingdom. On Palm Sunday, the crowd thought they knew who Jesus was. But they missed what His Kingdom was really about. And we can do the same thing today. Jesus isn’t meant to support our agenda. He’s meant to transform it. 📖 Matthew 21 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago Check out our Get To Know Jesus Resource Page: https://soulcitychurch.com/palmsunday/

What if diversity was always God’s idea? In this message, Darryl Ford II, guest from Be The Bridge, shows how Scripture reveals God’s design for unity not by erasing our differences but redeeming them. The Church isn’t called to avoid difference. We’re called to be a preview of heaven. 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago

What happens when our IDEAL doesn’t account for what’s REAL? In this message from our Be The Bridge series, Pastor Brandon Henderson invites us to consider the difference between celebrating diversity and doing the real work of bridge building. Looking at Galatians 3:26–29, we see that unity in Christ doesn’t erase our differences or lived experiences. Instead, it calls us into the deeper work of reconciliation, humility, and understanding. Because the goal isn’t just cheap diversity where we simply share the same space. The invitation of Jesus is something greater: Kingdom diversity — a community where we do the hard work of becoming family. Sometimes moving toward the ideal vision of unity requires us to first confront what is real. 📖 Galatians 3:26–29 🎤 Message by Pastor Brandon Henderson 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to forget what God has done? In this message, Pastor Jon explores the power of one simple word in Scripture: Remember. Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly calls His people to remember His faithfulness—because when life gets difficult, we tend to forget. When fear rises, when reality feels overwhelming, and when we begin to doubt… remembering what God has already done can restore hope and perspective. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do in a difficult moment is this: Tell your reality what you remember about God. 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago #Faith #TrustGod #Remember #SoulCityChurch

For the past two years, we’ve declared: We are a Bridge Building Church. But what does that actually mean? In this opening message of our Bridge Building series, Jeanne unpacks why racial reconciliation is not optional for followers of Jesus — it’s central to the gospel itself. Bridge building isn’t a side conversation. It’s not a political issue. It’s not a bonus calling for a few. It’s part of what it means to follow Christ. This message sets the tone for the series and invites us to see bridge building not as an initiative, but as an identity. If we’re going to be people shaped by Jesus, we must also be people committed to reconciliation. 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago #BridgeBuilding #RacialReconciliation #SoulCityChurch

What do you do when you’ve done what you shouldn’t have done? In this message, Pastor Jon walks through 1 John 1 and reveals a simple but powerful truth: when we try to manage our sin, we damage our soul — but when we come clean, God comes close. Confession isn’t about shame. It’s about freedom. If you’ve been carrying guilt, regret, or hiding from God, this message is for you. If you will confess, God will forgive. 📖 1 John 1
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Why does God allow suffering? It’s one of the hardest questions of faith. And in Job 38–42, God finally responds. But Job doesn’t get an explanation. He gets an encounter. In Week 3 of A Sufferer’s Guide to God, Pastor Jon explores what we do when there are no answers — and how God meets us not with reasons, but with presence. If you’re walking through grief, loss, confusion, or pain that doesn’t make sense, this message is for you. God doesn’t always give a reason for suffering. But God never lets suffering go unanswered. 📖 Job 38–42 📍 Soul City Church | Chicago

When someone you love is hurting, the pressure to say the “right thing” can feel overwhelming. What if the best thing you can offer isn’t words at all? In this message, Jon Jorgenson walks through the story of Job and shows how well-meaning friends said many true things… that still caused deep harm. And how the most powerful help they gave happened before they ever opened their mouths. If you’ve ever thought, “I want to help, but I don’t know how,” this message will change how you show up for people in pain. Because grief doesn’t need answers. It needs presence. 📍 Soul City Church — Chicago 🔔 Subscribe for more messages on faith, suffering, and real life

Where were you when the world broke? That moment you got the call. The text. The diagnosis. The news that changed everything. In this teaching, Jon walks through Job 1 and introduces a powerful, often forgotten biblical practice called lament — crying out in grief while still holding on to God. Because the promise of faith was never that we would avoid suffering, but that we would have help walking through it. If you’ve ever felt the tension between being honest about your pain and trying to stay faithful, this episode offers language for both. You can be heartbroken and hopeful at the same time. Scripture: Job 1:20–22

Prayer is not confined to the moments when we bow our heads or find the right words. What we say in prayer matters, but some of our most powerful prayers are spoken through how we love, forgive, give, serve, and show up in the world. This week, we will learn what it means to embody and live out prayers that go beyond words.

Praying for others is about more than merely saying words. It is participation in the in-breaking Kingdom of God. When we slow down long enough to see the people around us, to notice their need, their pain, or their longing, we step into the same Kingdom reality Jesus announced and demonstrated. This week we explore a Biblical vision of why praying for others' matters and what the broader implications of our prayers are. Taught by Pastor Brandon Henderson.

Much of our fear and resistance to prayer is rooted in the stories we tell ourselves about prayer. That it has to be a certain way. That it has to last a certain number of minutes. That it should be answered immediately. And rather than showing up…we give up and miss the gift of prayer. This message shows us not only the value of private/personal prayer…but a simple way to pray simply throughout our day until it becomes a practice that serves us for life. Message taught by Pastor Jarrett Stevens.