Soul City Church - Chicago, IL

As hard as it can be to love other Christians…that’s actually the easy part! The real work is to love those who we don’t like or don’t like us. So…how do you bless those you want to put on blast? How can you be for those who aren’t for you? How do you care for those who could care less about you? That is the REAL test of God’s love at work in our lives.

Sometimes the hardest people to love…are your own people. And yet Jesus said that the way the world will know that “Christians” belong to Him…is by how we love other “Christians”. If we cannot love each other…how can possibly ever love this world?!?

Asking for help can be difficult. Sometimes, the help we pray for takes time. It could take days, months, or years. But Got teaches us to believe in BIG prayers and to keep on asking. This week, we practice consistent prayer, no matter the circumstance or timing. We have nothing to lose so keep begging to God for help.

It's easy to take what we have for granted. Our possessions, our finances, our relationships, talents, or careers. But Scripture teaches us that ultimately everything we have is a gift from a generous God. This week, we will practice prayers of gratitude for all the big and small ways that God has blessed us.

Prayer is one of our main forms of communication with God. And because of that, prayer plays an important role in our transformation. This week we will examine Prayer 101.

Our world is divided. In our cities, our churches, our social accounts, and even in our families, we draw separating lines in the sand over ideologies, politics, religious beliefs, cultural trends, and more. In this division, it has become easier than ever to sit in a seat of judgment, drawing broad conclusions about who people are based on something that they think, believe, or say. But often in...

God helps us change our lens of negativity into a lens of possibility.

God often uses our anger as an invitation to deeper and more meaningful transformation.

The Kingdom sometimes requires leaving other things behind to pursue the main goal.

When it comes to Kingdom Culture, we have a choice to make with what God has given us: we can either protest or invest.

God's Kingdom is advanced when we see those who are different than us as our neighbors.

What is the culture in God's Kingdom?

God's decision to forgive the Ninevites angers Jonah.

EVEN WHEN we run from God, grace always meets us AGAIN.

Suffering can be a Wake-Up Call - for a Radical Reframing of our view of God and others.

There are times in our lives when God gives us direction…gives us an action to take…a calling to fulfill. And more often than not, our response is to look for any other way. Like Jonah, we run. We hide. We convince ourselves that we know better. Until eventually God’s calling catches up to us. In this week we will get honest about the callings and invitations God has put on our lives and whether o...

Soul City Worship is releasing their newest album on May 26th! The album is called Coming Home. Wherever life pushes or pulls us, the good news is that in Jesus we can always come home to God. This weekend, we will celebrate the release of Soul City Worship’s latest album by singing and worshipping together about God’s open invitation to COME HOME.

“In this world, you will have trouble.” That was one of Jesus’ clearest and scariest promises. But it’s true. Just ask anyone who has ever spent any time on earth, and they will tell you that they have faced trouble. But the question is when trouble and hardship come…where can we turn to find hope? While Jesus promised trouble, he also promised a place to turn. This week, we will encourage our peo...

What defines me? What are the aspects, histories, and relationships that shape and define my identity? Over the course of our lives, we identify as many different things. Often, we can cling to the identities that we claim for ourselves, or that others put on us, more than we can cling to our identity that God has given us. This week, we will be reminded that who we are in God’s eyes is far more v...

Life is hard. That is one of the undisputed facts of history. We all go through trials. We all carry burdens. We all have had seasons where we feel downright defeated. And to make matters worse, we often allow the difficulties of life to carry us away from intimacy with God. But God’s invitation, no matter the season or circumstance, is always to come back to him. In hard times, come back to God....