Compass Church Bloomington-Normal

Do other people seem more confident, capable, and impossible to overlook? Stephen’s story begins in the background, long before anyone knew his name. What makes an ordinary life meaningful? Does a person need a title, a platform, or an impressive résumé to matter? And what opportunities are easy to miss when you feel invisible?

God's love is a known concept yet we can grow so much in grasping how high, deep, wide and long God's love is for us. Journey with us as we seek to peel off another layer of grasping the depth of God's love and letting that love move us forward.

Nick Neargarter | Brooke Marvin | Kelli Dietrich

Come to me, all you are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

This verse comes alive as we explore a relationship with God based on a

sailing framework. God's energy at work to propel us forward while we put

our effort into "catching God's wind". Come sail.

What do you do when life feels uncertain and you honestly don’t know what God is doing? Questions about faith, doubt, anxiety, suffering, and direction are more common than ever. Acts 5 explores what trusting God looks like when certainty disappears, the future feels unclear, and you still have to decide how to move forward.

What should you do when authority is wrong? Submit? Resist? Stay quiet? Walk away? Some of the earliest Christians openly defied authority while others taught obedience and respect. Somewhere in that tension is a deeper question about love, justice, suffering, courage, and what faithfulness actually looks like when people are being harmed.

Why does following Jesus sometimes feel like losing? When life gets harder instead of easier, it forces deeper questions about faith, suffering, and what it really means to win. This explores the tension between expectation and reality, and why the kind of life Jesus offers may not look the way you thought.

Why do so many people struggle with Christians but still respect Jesus? There’s a gap between what’s believed and what’s experienced. If faith has ever felt confusing, distant, or even disappointing, this explores what might actually be going on beneath the surface.

What would it take for God to kill someone? In Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira give money, aren’t fully honest, and die. No warning. No second chance. This difficult Bible story raises real questions about faith, honesty, and whether God is harsh or something deeper is happening beneath the surface.

Why does unity feel so hard to hold onto? In a world where relationships feel fragile and division feels constant, there may be more going on beneath the surface than we realize. What if unity isn’t about agreement, but something deeper that most people overlook? And what if the thing we say we want is the very thing we struggle to live out?

Christianity shouldn’t exist. A man is executed and his followers scatter, yet somehow the movement survives. Why didn’t it die like every other failed messiah movement? Explore the origins of Easter, the claims about Jesus’ resurrection, and the questions that have kept people searching for answers ever since.