SAINT Church | Chicago

SAINT Church | Chicago

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SAINT Church | Chicago episodes

  • Retrieving Communion
    What are you hungry for? And what if our deepest hunger points to something more than food—to the communion with God we were created to enjoy? In this message, Retrieving Communion, we explore the story of God’s desire to share his life with us, from the broken fellowship of Genesis 3 to Jesus’ invitation in John 6: “I am the bread of life.”
    Throughout Scripture, God is at work restoring his table with us, culminating in Jesus offering us himself. At the Lord’s Table, we receive more than a meal; we are invited into deeper union with Christ and the life we were made for.
    At Saint Church, we’re learning to retrieve this ancient gift of communion as a way of life—receiving the life of Jesus and learning to share it with one another and the world. Come hungry, join us at the Table, and become saints together.
    0 min
  • Retrieving Confession
    One of the greatest challenges we think in the modern age is to stop the striving, stop the pushing, stop the churning long enough to ask ourselves:
    Is there anything that we need to confess?
    This week, we turned to St. Augustine and his classic text on the Confessions to observe how underneath the human heart, there is this restless churning: a churn to consume, a church to comfort ourselves, a churn to control. But Jesus offers us a different invitation in Luke 18:9-14.
    It is a simple picture. The image of two people praying in the temple. One a Pharisee, obsessed with the ways they have elevated themselves above the world. And the other a tax collector, who has nothing to offer to God or the world but their simple prayer, “God have mercy on me, a sinner.”
    We want to become the kinds of saints who learn to embrace such a prayer.
    37 min
  • Retrieving Prayer
    What does it mean to pray when we actually believe God is listening? In Genesis 18:16–33, Abraham does something remarkable: he contends with God. He pleads, questions, asks again, and refuses to let go of the possibility that God might act with mercy. This week, as we continued our series Retrieve, we looked at the prayers of the people; recovering an ancient practice of bringing the needs, hopes, griefs, and longings of the world before God together.
    37 min
  • Retrieving Scripture
    What if moving forward requires us to go back? In a culture obsessed with what’s next, retrieval is the practice of returning to what we’ve forgotten—not to recreate the past, but to recover what might help us become faithful people in the present.
    In 2 Kings 22–23, Josiah discovers something that had been lost. What happens next offers a surprising picture of what it might look like to encounter Scripture—not simply as an ancient book to understand, but as a living word that speaks into our lives today. What might we discover if we learned to listen again?
    46 min
  • The Forgotten Gospel
    What if some of what we've called the gospel isn't actually the gospel?
    For some of us, Christianity became something to earn. For others, something to prove. A system to get right. A life we could control. Or a promise that if we believed the right things now, we'd escape the pain of this world later.
    But what if the good news is stranger, and better, than that?
    On Sunday, John took us into one of Christianity's oldest and most beautiful ideas: union with Christ.
    Not simply believing in Jesus. Not merely trying to become like Jesus. But the staggering claim repeated throughout the New Testament is that we are somehow in Christ, and that, in him, an entirely new way of being human has begun.
    36 min
  • Who Are You Becoming?
    We live in a world constantly asking us to become someone—through what we buy, what we achieve, what we believe, and the people we surround ourselves with. But beneath all of those pressures is a deeper question: Who are you becoming?
    In our first teaching at Saint Church, we explore the invitation of Jesus not simply to believe something about him, but to follow him and become someone new in him.
    Paul's opening words to the Ephesians give us a different vision of our identity: before we achieve anything, we are already chosen, adopted, beloved, and blessed in Christ. The Christian life begins not with constructing a better self, but with receiving a new identity and allowing our lives to be formed by Jesus.
    What if following Jesus isn't primarily about becoming a better version of yourself, but becoming the person you were created to be?
    Who are you becoming?
    34 min

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