Compass Church Bloomington-Normal

There are lots of questions swirling around. Should we reopen or shelter in place? Do we wear masks or not? Are we giving up rights that we should be fighting for. The answers we need can be found in Jesus...but they may not be the answers we expect.

If you want a fight right now, they are easy to find. You don’t have to look any further than your social media newsfeed to see it. We don't realize how harmful these types of disagreements can be to our lives, but God has a path we can follow to experience unity and peace with each other.

Learning from someone else’s hindsight can be really valuable. The apostle Paul distilled what he learned from his experience under house arrest into one piece of advice that could change everything for us.

Close to the end of his life, the apostle Paul was locked up under house arrest in Rome. What was on his mind when he was alone and isolated from the people he cared about? How did he cope with social distancing?

Some kids are just scared of the Easter Bunny. He doesn't make sense with what they know about real world bunnies, and they become skeptics. In the same way there are people who are skeptical of Jesus. On Easter christians celebrate that he rose from the dead, but for many people that just doesn’t make sense with what they know about the real world. Is it possible for Jesus to make sense to skeptics?

When the world feels like it is going crazy there is one question we must ask ourselves: What will hold us together when everything is falling apart?

Has your brain ever been on autopilot? So often we are completely unaware of the thought patterns that are driving our actions, attitudes and decisions every day. If we are going to live differently, we have to think differently. We have to live thoughtfully.

With everything happening in the world there is something for everyone to be anxious about right now. The problem is that our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. So what do you do when your mind is overwhelmed by worry, anxiety, stress?

Did you know that the way you think has a huge impact on your life? How you think about yourself and your world may be holding you back in critical areas of your life. But the path to mastering your mind is about taking a simple step and allowing God to do the rest.

Have you ever wondered what it looks like to live a life full of God’s presence?