Life Community Church

Life Community Church

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On this page you can hear weekend messages from our Life Community Church teaching team, as well as life transforming stories. Life Community Church is a place for family, a place for relationships, and a place where those who call themselves followers of Jesus can belong. Join us in Columbia Illinois, or learn more about us by visiting us at lifeillinois.org.

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Jul 5, 2026

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A 15-Year Church Story Of Growth And The Next Five Years Of Faith | Sunday May 3 04.05.2026

“We don’t have enough” sounds responsible, but it can also be the sentence that keeps us stuck. We sit with the tension between what God calls us to do and what our spreadsheets say is possible, then we let John 6 do what it always does: expose our excuses and rebuild our faith. We share a raw look back at 15 years of Life Community Church, including seasons of growth and seasons of strain, and wh...

How To Face Conflict Without Losing Your Faith Or Your Relationships | Sunday, April 26 28.04.2026

Conflict is unavoidable, but the way we handle it reveals who’s leading our life. We get honest about the state of the church and the state of our hearts, because if Jesus is Lord of us, He has to be Lord of our disagreements too. That means we stop treating comfort like a virtue and start seeing loving correction as one of the ways God protects, heals, and matures His people. Along the way we lea...

Gina Reeves | White Knuckling Quit Working So She Tried God | This Is Life 28.04.2026

We sit down with Gina Reeves as she shares how 30 years of addiction turns into five years clean through surrender to God, real community, and recovery step work. We talk about shame, grief, relapse, and the steady practices that help faith move from a moment to a life.  • Gina’s turning point after repeated rock bottoms and “white knuckling” sobriety  • Sensing God’s presence through dreams and l...

Return To Your First Love | Sunday April 12 21.04.2026

Strong theology. Consistent serving. A full calendar. And still, a quiet question underneath it all: do we actually love Jesus the way we did at first? We sit with Revelation 2 and the letter to the church in Ephesus, where Jesus praises endurance and discernment but refuses to ignore the real problem, leaving first love. It is a sobering word for modern Christians who know how to “do church” whil...

Your Next Move | Sunday April 19 20.04.2026

Your past may be real, but it does not get the final word. We lean into a powerful, practical message about “the next move” and why one obedience-filled step can outweigh a long list of regrets. We start with the tension most of us live in: mistakes that keep replaying and fear that keeps us stuck. Then we open Acts 18 and walk with Paul from Athens to Corinth, where conflict closes one space but...

The Resurrection Question | Easter 2026 05.04.2026

If someone could have produced Jesus’ body, the Christian movement dies instantly. That simple reality is why we spend Easter doing more than celebrating a holiday. We follow the evidence trail and ask the question that won’t leave us alone: what do we do with the historical claims that Jesus died and rose again? We talk through why the crucifixion is widely accepted by historians, including detai...

Palm Sunday, Passover, And The Savior We Misread | Easter At Life | Week 2 30.03.2026

They waved palm branches and shouted “Save us now,” but many wanted a quick fix more than a changed heart. We walk through Palm Sunday with the full Passover backdrop, tracing how Israel’s lamb, blood on the doorpost, and the packed streets of Jerusalem all point to Jesus as the Lamb of God. When you see that connection, Holy Week stops being a set of church events and starts sounding like one coh...

Sara Sutherland | A Mother’s Story Of Infant Loss And Unshakable Faith | This Is Life 26.03.2026

Join Sarah as she walks us through a prenatal diagnosis that included diaphragmatic hernia and hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the constant swirl of high-risk appointments, and the quiet strength it took to set boundaries when options were placed in front of her. We talk about why she refused abortion, how she held onto hope without pretending the outcome was guaranteed, and what it’s like to rec...

She Wakes Breakout Session | Amanda Denny 25.03.2026

Join Amanda as she keeps it practical and grounded in faith, looking at Christian mental health through the lens of community, Scripture, and choice. Amanda explains why having godly community matters when anxiety gets loud, including the idea of “borrowed faith” from Luke 5: friends carrying someone to Jesus when he cannot carry himself. We also dig into the daily mental shift that changes everyt...

She Wakes Breakout Session | Jessica Andrews 25.03.2026

Join Jessica Andrews as she traces the shift from missionary life and clear ministry categories to the confusing, often lonely reality of motherhood and everyday work. Together, we challenge the sacred vs secular split that makes ordinary jobs feel second-rate, and we rebuild a biblical view of vocation: God partners with us to cultivate, serve, and bring life to the people right in front of us. A...

She Wakes Breakout Session | Kayce Eilerman 25.03.2026

Join Kayce Eilerman as she pulls wisdom from C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters to expose a subtle strategy that wrecks Christian community: get believers to fixate on annoyances until they stop seeing the spiritual reality of the church. From there, we get practical with four anchor habits that can rebuild trust, heal church hurt, and move you from spectator to family: stay meeting, stay eating, s...

She Wakes Breakout Session | Mattea Pellizzer 25.03.2026

Join Mattea as she talks about what it means to let go of control, why surrender is a daily choice, and how even good passions can become idols if they outrank a relationship with Jesus. Mattea explains how worry and overthinking can get “loud,” twisting our trust, draining our peace, and pulling our focus away from following Christ. The goal isn’t pretending everything is fine; it’s honest trust...

She Wakes Final Session | Kelly Bridges 25.03.2026

Join Kelly Bridges as she discusses believing in Jesus and still being led around by everything else. We start with that uncomfortable truth because the question beneath much of our anxiety, comparison, and noise is simple: who is actually forming us? We talk about the things we “follow” every day, from social feeds to family habits to cultural expectations, and why our attention is never neutral....

She Wakes Breakout Session | Jodi Miller 25.03.2026

Join Jodi Miller as she walks through key passages in Galatians about salvation by grace through faith, the law as a temporary guardian, and the stunning identity change Jesus brings: no longer slave, but child and heir. Jodi talks about what it means to cry “Abba Father,” why belonging can feel hard when your story with “father” language is painful, and how spiritual formation happens whether we...

What If Hypocrisy Is Keeping You From God? | Easter @ Life | Week 1 22.03.2026

Culture tells us to follow our hearts, protect our comfort, and stay in control. Jesus tells us to deny ourselves, carry a cross, and hand him the keys. That tension is where many people get stuck, not because they don’t believe in eternity, but because they don’t trust God with everyday life: habits, relationships, money, stress, and the parts of the heart we keep hidden. We get practical by look...

She Wakes Preview 2026 18.03.2026

Let's talk about She Wakes weekend! We talk about the energy in the room when women gather to worship, why we’re pumped for the Hope Darst concert, and how the breakout sessions keep weaving together year after year in a way we couldn’t plan if we tried. If you’ve been craving Christian community and a reset in your spiritual life, you need to be there! Thanks for listening!  Follow us on Fac...

Mike Boone | Generosity Changed Everything And Here Is Why | This is Life 16.03.2026

Mike Boone sits down with us for a conversation that hits hard and stays honest. Mike tells the stories behind a lifetime of tithing and generosity: getting laid off right after sensing a warning from God, a front-yard moment where he felt God say blessing was tied to obedience, and the bold “prove me” promise that made him take giving seriously. He also shares how missions giving turned into real...

Why We Build | Dobie Weasel | Week 10 15.03.2026

A building can be poured in concrete, but the real reason we build is written in people. We start by celebrating a huge win for foster care through the One Life Banquet, then we shift to something even bigger: praying over the next generation and calling young adults to stop waiting for “someday” and start living Spirit-led today. From there, we open Nehemiah and ask the blunt question every churc...

Waiting Well | Dream Big | Week 8 10.03.2026

Hurry promises control; waiting offers transformation. We open up about that uncomfortable space between promise and payoff, where timelines stretch and motives surface. Drawing from Philippians 4, we unpack how Paul learned contentment through both scarcity and abundance, and why that skill is not discovered by accident but forged through practice. Contentment is not settling. It’s trusting God e...

Unashamed Faith | Dream Big | Week 9 08.03.2026

A reveal can thrill or sting, but it always tells the truth. We opened with lighthearted stories, then shared a milestone that took our breath away: our church family pledged 2.4M over two years. That number isn’t a headline to frame; it’s a compass. Every dollar represents a person within reach who needs hope, healing, and a living encounter with Jesus. It also exposed something deeper—our commit...

Obedience | Dream Big | Week 7 22.02.2026

What if the future of our church is decided in small, ordinary moments where love either moves or stalls? We open with the story behind our name—life spoken over a city scarred by loss—and trace how that promise shaped our mission to make room for people long before we ever talked about buildings. From the first living-room gathering to today’s baptisms, we keep returning to the same center: only...

February 20 | Dream Big Devotional | Jamey Bridges 20.02.2026

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She Wakes | When Routine Becomes Worship And Fasting Becomes Formation 19.02.2026

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Day 14 | Dream Big Devotional | Caleb Pellizzer | 19.02.2026

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Day 13 | Dream Big Devotional | Kelly Bridges 18.02.2026

We trace Israel’s slip from bold promises to the golden calf and the mercy that invited them back into generous obedience. We reflect on how willing hearts turn resources into worship and how daily attentiveness helps us partner with God’s work. • the shift from pledge to impatience and idolatry • Moses’ intercession and the renewed covenant • Exodus 35’s call for willing offerings • obedience ref...

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