Encounter At Illinois State University / Isu

Prayer is the conduit by which we experience God in relationship. Let’s experience what prayer is and what it does in and through every follower of Jesus. (Luke 3:21, Matt...

Winter Retreat – Session 4- Sunday AM

Winter Retreat – Session 3- Saturday PM

Winter Retreat – Session 2- Saturday AM

Winter Retreat – Session 1 – Friday PM

In Jesus’ short parable about light, we learn a great deal about how our faith, connected to our behaviors, is a powerful beacon in a very dark world. (Matt 5:14-16,...

In this parable, we see people who are entrusted with differing resposibilities by the master. The only worker reprimanded was the one who did nothing out of fear. Jesus doesn’t...

We desire God to move and work in our lives.  Yet when He uses a particular tool to do just that, we begin to obsess about that tool and forget...

In our current age, we see through a glass, darkly.  But God has promised that there is a time coming where he will remake and restore our world.  And He’s...

Joseph seems to attract favor and trouble everywhere he goes.  God gives him a unique gift that becomes a turning point in one of his darkest moments.  What gifts has...

Abraham and Sarah decide they have waited long enough, and have a child with their maidservant Hagar. They twist God’s promise to the point of justifying sin to make it...

Moses looks at his own resources and knows they don’t equal the task at hand.  If Moses would dare to lift his eyes up, he’d realize his human limitations are...

In a desperate moment, Moses lets his anger get the better of him and murders a man.  This turning point may teach us some things about sin that we allow...

Good stories have sad chapters, good stories change you, good stories challenge you. And we know God is a good author of your story. (John 9)

We see a picture of a perfect Garden in Genesis and in Revelation, but in between those gardens is another garden, one of suffering.  What does it mean to live...

Jesus loves to provide invitations that beckon us beyond our barriers.  But when we ignore too many of his invitations, the opportunities God provides may start to look more like...

We are all holding tight. Jesus challenges us to let go of what we are holding onto and follow Him. {Mark 10:17-27}

In the life of Peter, we watch the power of a submitted, struggling-toward-the-Lord, kind of life. And through Peter’s journey, we hear whispers of what Jesus desires to accomplish in...

Fall Retreat – Session 4 – Sunday AM

Fall Retreat – Session 3 – Saturday PM