Community Christian Church

We had 67 people who left a comment explaining why they loved Chicago in hopes of winning a free ticket to Catalyst 1-Day in Chi-Town. Since I had to pick two people to give the tickets to I decided the...

OK, here is the scoop and you are going to love it! Catalyst 1-Day is coming to my home town, the Windy City on March 25th! And because Brad Lomenick and his gang know how to hype stuff they have...

There are lots of people who claim to really love people who are far from God; but few do it. And there are lots of churches that say they want to help people find their way back to God; and...

On January 10th, we launched our 10th COMMUNITY Campus . . . the long awaited and prayed for bilingual EAst Auora Campus. Click here to read about the opening day on Dave Ferguson's blog. I waited until after the 2nd...

While the grand opening is still a couple weeks away, our COMMUNITY-Yorkville campus moved into their new space today and it was a tremendous day! Since I was speaking at COMMUNITY-Romeoville I didn't get to be there, but I caught...

This video was sent to us from Pastor Jeff Moore and First Presbyterian Church in Aurora, Illinois for us to play at the grand opening of our newest campus in the same town. I would love for every church leader...

How the Mighty have fallen... Just suffered through a painful episode of Desperate Housewives, a show that in its first season showed promise as a soap opera-esque indictment of suburban living. I was forced to watch it because Kristi won't...

celebrated my birthday at ted’s montana grill. the bison c.o.b is probably the best burger i’ve ever eaten. # thnx for the bday wishes evrybdy. i’m followin an awesome day ystrday with some illini bball and wolves hocky 2day. and some UC nachos. # http://twitpic.com/wdi7w - went for the madhouse burger over the nachos. probably a [...]

So many C412 memories from 2009. Here are the first 10 that come to mind (in no particular order) . . . Obe Arellano officially joined the staff at Community Christian Church as the LONG awaited East Aurora Campus Pastor....

Love this article about the last decade in the music business - maps out and defines reality very nicely. It's been interesting to see not just how iTunes has changed the game, but also how box stores like Target and...

I saw Foreigner when I was in high school, it was just as they were about to "jump the shark", on the Agent Provocateur tour. You know, "I Want To Know What Love Is", with the choir and all that....

Saw Avatar last night. It was a feast for the eyes. 3D is the only way to go with this one. I was tired by the end because, well, it's almost 3 hours long, and, because my eyes were working...

Close to 700 people tonight at Let It Be Christmas. Crazy considering our room seats 500 comfortably. # props 2 @daveferguson on an incredible christmas eve talk. also 2 @timoccc for his role in writing. awesome! going to research myrrh now. # http://twitpic.com/v0ssx - billshazzar sighting @cccyellowbox. he’s preping to read the christmas story to the kids. [...]

The past few weeks have been a bustle of activity as we prepared for 3 Christmas Gift Marts this year . . . one in Joliet and two in East Aurora. Here's a summary of how things went: Over 14,000...

We're in full-blown Christmas mode and as we celebrate the birth of Jesus this week I thought I'd share another thought from my experience this past year of walking in his steps in Israel. By far the memory I'll carry...