Life Church - Gurnee

Facing Cancer with Faith... You'll be inspired with faith, humor, and the human emotions of facing a diagnosis of a normally terminal disease as Todd (recently found with stage 4 lung & brain cancer) shares his story in this Life Interview w Mark Roggensack (Life pastor).

Chris Crowell writes and team team-teaches with Pastor Mark Roggensack in this introductory teaching revealing how God's arch-enemy and deceiver lies in order to impede God's work in His children. This first teaching of this series deals with God's truths about lies the enemy uses about each of us.

In this final talk of the 2014 Life Partnership Series, Mark Roggensack shares Seven Servanthood Axioms that reflect and perpetuate the culture of servanthood of the gospel and Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Snow- It could be God's beautiful way to slow us down from our un-godly rhythm of living. Snow has its place in many parts of God's plan for growth both ecologically and spiritually. Life Church lead pastor, Mark Roggensack, continues the series "The Living Word" with a refreshing perspective on how God's authority speaks through all seasons. Isa 55:9-11 reminds us that like the rain and the snow, God's words and truth go out from him and never return to him empty.

Why do people believe what they believe? In this Living Word Series message, Mark Roggensack unpacks the unique reception that the citizens of Thessalonica gave to the message of Jesus Christ that the missionary/apostle Paul brought to them. How about you? Is the message/word of Christ just human words and ideas - or is it the very word of God you can trust?

Ever feel pulled to be living more for the good things of this life than for God? In Part 2 of The Living Word Series, Life Church lead pastor, Mark Roggensack unveils a portion of Israel’s 40 year wilderness journey in Exodus 16 where God miraculously provided quail and manna for His hungry, disgruntled people. We'll discover how this story parallels with the 40 day wilderness temptation experience of Jesus. In the end, we discover we can choose to serve and live for earthly “bread”, or we can choose to trust, obey and live for and according to God’s words.

Welcome to the Living Word Series at Life Church. In our mission to become and live like Jesus, we are establishing a deeper connection to the truths of God's words to us. Although, we believe the Bible to be the tested, inspired, infallible revelations of God, His story, and His working in this world, by "LIVING WORD" we refer to all the continuing words and speaking of God that are in agreement and alignment with the written Word - the Holy Bible. With the BIBLE as the foundation of our 2014 LIVING WORD series, Mark Roggensack, lead pastor at Life Church in Gurnee, shares about the truths, concepts, and reality of God speaking real time into your personal life through His written Word, the Holy Spirit, and other people.

"Just Like Jesus" - may just shake up your whole paradigm of doing church. A young rich ruler asks Jesus how to get eternal life. Jesus' simple reply leaves this man walking away very sad. Was it selling his belongings and giving to the poor that saddened him, or was it something Jesus said that extended beyond his present wealth? In this first Life Talk of the "Just Like Jesus" Series, Mark introduces (through Jesus' interaction with this young rich ruler) God's ultimate goal for each of us as we come to faith and participate in God's family - the church... to become like His Son, Jesus. The convicting challenge? Much of activity in our present church paradigm does not easily bring about this "Just Like Jesus" transformation in us or our community. The Kingdom of God and Eternal Life is not a destination after death, but rather is a "way of living with Christ" that extends into eternal life. Lets discover life in God's Kingdom and become a thriving community of faith that is becoming like Jesus, tog

In this third message of the CIRCLE MAKER Series, Life Church Lead Pastor Mark Roggensack delivers a motivating bible-based talk about prayer (from Mark Batterson's CIRCLE MAKER). In this talk, Mark challenges us come to God with unrelenting persistence in our prayers. Persistence reveals our passionate desire to receive all that God has for us!

In this second message of the CIRCLE MAKER Series, Life Church Lead Pastor delivers a motivating bible-based talk from Mark Batterson's CIRCLE MAKER book. In this talk, Mark challenges us to dream God sized dreams that invite God to do what we cannot. When we truly believe God has no limitations, it changes how we pray.

Overcome your biggest fears and pursue God's greatest dreams for your life! Welcome to the Circle Maker Series adapted from author Mark Batterson's new book based on the Jewish legend of Honi, the praying Jewish sage who boldly asked God to bring physical and spiritual rain to the the drought of his time. In this first talk, Life Church Lead Pastor, Mark Roggensack, (based on the author's outline) shares powerful points and personal illustrations of boldly asking God to do His will in our lives. Learn to identify what you want/need God to do in your life and get ready to see God's mercy and grace rain down on your biggest fears and greatest dreams.

Convictions, pre-conceptions, and biases can be the very things that hinder us WINNING LIFE'S TOUGHEST BATTLES. Your perspective going INTO a battle matters more than ever as we see in the life of young David as he faces the Philistine giant, Goliath. This is the third talk of the WINNING LIFE'S TOUGHEST BATTLES Series with Life Church Lead Pastor - Mark Roggensack.

God wants to put a winning team around you for life's toughest battles. In the second talk of the WINNING LIFE'S TOUGHEST BATTLES Series, Life Church Lead Pastor - Mark Roggensack explains from the Old Testament David/Jonathan story how having and being an armorbearer can be critical to winning life's toughest battles.

In the first talk of the WINNING LIFE'S TOUGHEST BATTLES Series, Life Church Church Lead Pastor - Mark Roggensack reveals the unnecessary battles we face due to our own sinful decisions by looking at the life of King David and the tough battles he faced by losing 3 sons to death. This talk concludes with an encouraging invitation to walk and live saturated with God's Spirit so we won't fall into the devil's temptations and reap unnecessary battles.

What do you CRAVE? Is your life a cycle of endless craves? In this pre-Lent-season talk, Life Church lead pastor, Mark Roggensack shares some humorous, life-long food craves and then leads us into a fresh application of understanding & engaging the best practices of the ancient LENT Season as well as helping us discover and pursue the deepest CRAVE within each of us. This talk will challenge you to a life changing 40 day spiritual battle between your devotion to CRAVES or CHRIST. For more information about the 40 Day Life Lent Challenge - please email MarkR@WelcomeToLife.net.