Chicago International Christian Church

Chicago ICC Bible Talk Map & List

Elliott — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:37:46 +0000

Map of the Chicago ICC!

Church, Co-ed, Women’s, Spanish

Chicago International Christian Church

Led by Mike and Brittany Underhill 211 S Laflin St,
213-268-1231 / 312-339-8695 Chicago, IL 60607
10:00 am Sunday Entrance #9, 3rd floor

COD Bible Talk

Nick and Jacque Economo 425 Fawell Blvd.
213-268-1231 / 312-339-8695 Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
6:00 pm Tuesday In the cafeteria in the Student Resource Center

COD Bible Talk (Daytime)

Theo Dawson Jr. and Jacque Economo 425 Fawell Blvd.
213-268-1231 / 312-339-8695 Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
11:00 am Thursday Student Resource Center below Starbucks

Columbia College Bible Talk

Patrick Boea and Jael Cook 1104 S Wabash St.
312-523-7701 / 773-623-9253 Chicago, IL 60605
12:30 pm Wednesdays

DePaul Bible Talk

Mike and Brittany Underhill 1 E Jackson Blvd
213-268-1231 / 312-339-8695 Chicago, IL 60604
7:00 pm Thursday

DesPlaines Bible Talk

Bob and Barb McMurray 2157 Douglas Ave.
773-251-2531 DesPlaines, IL 60018
7:00 pm Tuesday

Downtown Singles Bible Talk

Cornel Buckner and Janah Cook 507 N Wells St.
773-600-4008 / 708-510-7524 Chicago, IL 60654
7:30 pm Thursday

Fellis’ Bible Talk

Anthony and Lisa Fellis 5 E 14th Place, Unit 1201
708-638-6313 / 708-638-6309 Chicago, IL 60605
7:00 pm Tuesday

Harold Washington Bible Talk

Jason Collier and Tia Williams 30 E Lake St.
312-772-1550 (text only) / 815-823-4529 Chicago, IL 60601
4:30 pm Monday

Jason’s Deli Bible Talk

Joe and Denise Chiappetta 1258 S Canal St.
708-369-2099 / 708-567-7641 Chicago, IL 60607
6:30 pm Thursday

Lombard Bible Talk

Dave and Bernie Rodriguez 225 S Chase Ave. Suite #B
630-808-3710 Lombard, IL 60148
7:00 pm Thursday

Loyola Bible Talk

Ruth Etrenne 6474 N Kenmore Ave.
224-522-5973 Chicago, IL 60626
12:30 pm Wednesday

Roosevelt Bible Talk

Michelle Dubose 430 S Michigan Ave.
312-912-2427 Chicago, IL 60605
5:15 pm Monday

Single Women Bible Talk

Christine Feldman Starbucks inside Target
847-226-4740 at 290 & Mannheim,
7:30 pm Monday Hillside, IL 60612

Single Women–Downtown Bible Talk

Sparkle Leonard and Jael Cook Panera Bread
773-494-2710 / 773-623-9253 2 S Michigan Ave.
7:00 pm Tuesday Chicago, IL 60603

Single Women–Morton Bible Talk

Sabrina Kramer 7349 Lake St.
262-346-3638 River Forest, IL 60305
3:00 pm Wednesday

Triton Bible Talk

Jay Shelbrack and Anna Debarras 2000 North 5th Ave.
608-712-8399 / 708-244-5788 River Grove, IL 60171
3:30 pm Wednesday Cafeteria Building C

UIC Bible Talk

Mike and Brittany Underhill 750 S Halsted St.
213-268-1231 / 312-339-8695 Chicago, IL 60607
1:15 pm Tuesday Student Center East,
Inner Circle–East Terrace

UIC Women’s Bible Talk

Sharmayne Villarino 750 S Halsted St.
708-699-2678 Chicago, IL 60607
6:00 pm Tuesday Student Center East
Pier Room

West Singles Bible Talk

Anthony Franklin and Maria Cortez 310 Lathrop Ave, Apt. 509
312-520-5762 / 708-674-4623 Forest Park, IL 60310
7:30 pm Tuesday

Wooden’s Bible Talk

Chris and Lerato Wooden 910 S Michigan Ave, Apt #718
312-505-0191 / 312-718-8285 Chicago, IL 60605
7:00 pm Tuesday

LATIN MINISTRY

Midway Bible Talk

Juan Juis y Delia Pedroza 5413 S Lotus Ave, Basement
708-712-1790 Chicago, IL 60638
7:30 pm Friday

Brookfield Bible Talk

Juan Mendoza 4520 Maple Ave, Apt 2S
630-677-2385 Brookfield, IL 60513
7:30 pm Friday

Brookfield Bible Talk

Juan C and Betty Garcia 4517 Elm Ave, Apt 1A
503-250-4572 / 503-250-4573 Brookfield, IL 60513
7:30 pm Friday

Brookfield Bible Talk

Luis H Garcia 4522 Maple Ave, Apt 1N
708-277-5902 Brookfield, IL 60513
7:30 pm Friday

Crankin’ a Bible Talk

Joe Chiappetta — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:37:59 +0000

Preached by Mike Underhill, 1/13/2012

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Brittany Marie Gets Baptized

Crankin’ a Bible Talk – Outline

Small groups who are passionate, disciplined, and focused get the job done
- Stalin has a famous quote that says 12 men willing to give up their lives for him will change the world
He stole that from Jesus and his apostles

- Still the same today. If you are willing to risk your life you will change your campus, city, and the world
Your Bible talk is the hope of the world

Crankin or Tankin?
Matthew 22:1-10
Parable of the wedding banquet
- Kingdom of God is awesome, incredible, joy
It’s like an all you can eat buffet with all the food you could imagine
The Kingdom is even better because it saves lives and is free to come visit

- When you are inviting people out do you have a fired up attitude, knowing that it is better than any buffet the visitor could imagine
- It is the hope of the world and is worth coming to
- Do not share faith out of obligation because people will not come
- When you know something is awesome and do not care if others think it is you will have visitors
Bible talk is the hope of keeping regrets out of peoples’ lives
- We are the hope
Have you forgotten? Why have you lost hope?

- How are your quiet times? How did bible talk change your life?
- Share with an energetic, positive, convicted attitude
- You have to have strong convictions to know this is the place to be or have you forgotten?

Hebrews 11:1-6
- Faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what we do not see
- The world is hurting
People try to drink, flirt, and forget to make their problems go away
They have no hope or faith in anything

- You give all your heart but they do not come to God so you stop sharing your faith. You think if God shows me then I will believe? Then you have lost YOUR faith!
- God sends Abraham and through Abraham’s faith we see the results
Child of Abraham? Believe what God says will happen

- It is impossible to please God without faith
- Enoch had faith. God blesses those who earnestly seek him
- Losing your faith is NOT a little thing
It causes you to go to the world to fix your broken dreams

- Is your heart tearing you down or are you keeping the faith?
- Have you trusted your dreams into God’s hands?
God brings the impossible

John 20:19-29
Thomas lost his faith
- The 11 were meeting together but Thomas was not there
Losing faith=losing commitment=Missing God’s miracles

- Stop doubting and believe
- Blessed are those who do not see and yet believe
- To crank a Bible talk, do NOT doubt. Go knowing you will change peoples’ lives
- What would life be like if you did not doubt?

Mark 6:1-6
- If there is no faith in the city Jesus cannot work
If you have no faith there will be no miracles

Romans 14:23
- Man who doubts is condemned
- Everything that does not come from faith is SIN
It is not about growing. A hit man does not grow spiritually by slowly stopping killing people
Sin needs to stop

- Bottom line is repent and have faith, believe
- God not pleased by sin
- Do you have faith that you can have faith or have you beaten yourself?

IMPORTANT SKILLS IN BEING A BIBLE TALK LEADER
- Imitation: There is no such thing as plagiarizing in the Kingdom
- Daily Ministry: Share your faith everyday
- Motivation: Jesus is Lord has to be the lifestyle you live everyday
- Personal example/Leader has to lead: Have a visitor

Mark 3:31-35
- Awesome Bible talk is a family
Do you ask each other for help, hangout outside of bible talk, work like a little army?

Matthew 22:37-39
- Love God and your neighbor as yourself
Do not be selfish

1 Thessalonians 2:8
- Share your lives with each other
Bring people over

How do you determine if somebody is open?
- Urgent, have heart for the cross, make every effort
Are they moving slow like a crockpot or urgent like a microwave?

- Push until they push you back
Test people in the Studies. Are they paying attention?

1 Timothy 1:15
Why did Jesus come? To save sinners
- It is not rocket science. Make disciples and teach them to make disciples
- We are here to save sinners
Do you wake up thinking about saving the lost?

- Are you radically committed?
- Be unapologetic in preaching the word in faith
You have injecting the cure into the monster

- Need a great team
Have a plan
Know the plan and follow it with unity

The Most Excellent Way

Joe Chiappetta — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:24:17 +0000

Preached by Roger Parlour, 01/08/2012

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Lance and Korban get Engaged!

The Most Excellent Way – Outline

Roger Parlour preaches an amazing sermon about love.

June 9, 1980 Miami, Florida a women name Judith is found murdered
- After her death they found her diary in which she continuously cried out for love. While she was surrounded by people she still was like an island, consumed with loneliness. If an alien came to Earth and walked around for a few weeks how would they describe love?
- They would probably say it is about: sexuality, friendships, infatuation, pleasure, and material gifts
• Our society does not understand true love

1 Corinthians 12:31-13:7
- Paul understood the importance of love
- Your life and heart have to match what you are talking about
- Do not be the obnoxious gong

• Have a love for you bible talk
• Parents and spouse must have love to back up what they are saying; you cannot speak through anger and still be loving
- Without love we amount to nothing before God or people and will achieve nothing
- Love is the most excellent way

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- Truth of what love is
- Pride brings insecurity, anger, lack of openness, and independence

• We cannot be an island and be loving at the same time

Point 1. Not Self-Seeking

John 13:1-5
- Jesus showed the full extent of his love knowing he was going to be betrayed
- If you were dying in a few days would you be washing feet or getting your feet washed?

Are you washing?
- Are you a true servant of God therefore a servant of people

• Roommates, spouse, parent
- We see the results of what people like set up crew and the teachers do but we do not see everything
- At church is your heart to give or get

• Attitude of giving means fellowshipping and getting in others’ lives not running out the door after church ends
Hebrews 10 spur one another on

• When you give you will get
• Pray up and decide to give
- You will be more evangelistic if you pray up and decide to give

John 13:2
Excuses Jesus could have given
- He was eating
- Knew he was going to be betrayed
- Has all the power and could have made somebody else wash feet
• Knowing he would be betrayed he still served

What is your heart in loving and serving you enemies?
- Unconditional love=loving when it is not deserved or warranted
• Jesus loved even when the love was not returned to him

Do you love the fallaways?
- Love is challenging when it involves hurt, pain, and suffering

• Those things will come and should be talked about; be open

Love those who are hard to love

- Ask yourself who in your life is hard to love

Matthew 18:21-35
- Peter was told to forgive 77 times
- Forgive continuously

• Not forgiving is distressing and stressful to others

- The person who hurt us is the servant who owed a few dollars. We are the ones who have hurt God and
are the servant who owed millions (wicked servant)
- Do you recognize the seriousness of your sin?
- Forgiveness is not forgetting but treating them like it never happened; not only saying I am sorry but
forgiving them in your heart

Point 2. Rejoice in the Truth

1 Corinthians 13:6
- Rejoice in the truth

Ezekiel 13:10-16
- Building fenses is to keep the good in and the bad out
- The truth will build strong fortresses in others

What are you building in other people? Are you building?
• Strong fortresses or flimsy
• Your work will be tested

(Jeremiah 8:10-12 People dress wounds like they are not serious. That is what we do when we do not
tell each other the truth)
- Cannot preach peace peace when there is no peace

• Have to say the tough things with gentleness, kindness, tact, and belief in the other person-Love
• Truth must be said even if you say it in the wrong way. Get advice on how to speak the truth in love

John 13:4, John 13:12
- Jesus got up
- He set the example and washed the feet of others which is what we all should do
• Love, live, and give

CHALLENGE
Pray up and love in God’s way not the world’s
-This is how people will know we are disciples
-Must give people hope

You’re My God – Song by Jael Cook

Joe Chiappetta — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:04:37 +0000

Performed live at our 1/15/2012 worship service, this guitar song solo is a righteous and rhythmic declaration of faith by Jael Cook.

Peace on Whom His Favor Rests

Elliott — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:20:02 +0000

Preached by Mike Underhill, 12/24/2011

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Misha Gets Baptized! (fourth from the left)

Peace on Whom His Favor Rests – Outline
As Christmas weekend begins Chicago’s own Mike Underhill preaches about the true meaning of Christmas and how it relates to us.

Point #1-Peace on Earth

Luke 2:14
- We will be studying the birth of Christ and how this relates to us.

Luke 2:1-7
- The birth of the Messiah.
- The angel of God tells Mary of the son she would come to have.
- Could you imagine what Josepth and Mary felt as they were going to Bethlehem, the city where David ruled?
- When’s the last time that you went to Bethlehem?
- When’s the last time you went to any famous city? How did it feel?
- Mary and Jospeth went into town and discovered that the town’s inn was full, so they went into a nearby cave where Jesus was born.
- God had a different plan than Mary and Joseph had.

Proverbs 16:9
- A lot of times we have plans, but God can have different plans.
- We tend to get bitter with God when our plans don’t work out.
- Sometimes we think we were chosen out of the world by God because we’re “hot stuff”.
- We have different directors in our lives (Sin).
- Jesus wants to be our new director over our old directors.
- Is Jesus your director?
- Where are you with your sharing? Have you lost your fire? Have you gotten distracted?
- Are you still where you were when you were first baptized?
- We can have a heart of stubbornness to listen to others.
- When you are stubborn to get open about your impurity.
- Impurity destroys marriages. Get open about it!

Point #2-The Humbled Heart

Luke 2:8-15
- Angels praised Jesus birth as an historic event while men had no idea of its happening.
- God loves the humble.

Isaiah 57:15
- God is with the humbled.
- Those who are humbled serve God more than men. They care more about what God thinks than about what men thinks.
- Those who are humbled:
1. Get open with sin.
2. Seek Advice
- We would rather not be opened about our sin out of being embarrassed.
- Be opened about your sin!

Hebrews 12:14
- Without holiness you won’t see God.
- How holy will you be this weekend?

1 Timothy 1:15
- Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
- Do you want to save sinners? Is Jesus’ heart your heart?
Acts 2:44-47
- If you want the church to be great, you need to be willing to sacrifice to see it happen.

Poured Out Like a Drink Offering

Joe Chiappetta — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:16:07 +0000

Preached by Anthony Franklin, 12/18/2011

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Paulina Gets Baptized (third from the right)

Poured Out Like a Drink Offering – Outline

2 Timothy 4:6 Paul is poured out like a drink offering… fought the good fight, kept the faith, finished the race.
- Most likely written in prison at end of his life. He had confidence in his salvation.
- In Numbers 15 a drink offering (wine) is poured out over a sacrifice to represent giving your best you had to God.
- Have you given your best to God today? Can you say this at the end of your life? Giving your best is all about your love for God. Love the Lord with all… is the greatest command. If you don’t love God with all your heart, you won’t pour yourself out.

1) It’s all about relationship with God.
Philippians 3:7 The rest of world is garbage compared to knowing Christ. As long as you are close to God, nothing else is a priority.

Exodus 33:12 “How will I know you are pleased with me if your presence does not go with me?” Great leaders want to know God more than anything. Moses doesn’t want to go anywhere without God. Is that your heart? Moses was allowed to see God’s glory. Is that what you want? Do you see your need for God’s presence in your life? Have great times with God. Do you desire to understand God’s awesomeness? Know God on a deeper level. If you haven’t wanted to be in God’s presence, do you really love him? Who do you think the saints will be with in heaven all the time? God! When you love someone, it shouldn’t be burden to spend time with them. Are your times with God a burden?

2) It’s all about your salvation.
Revelation 2:1 “I know your deeds…” says Jesus to the church. Don’t forsake your first love: Jesus. “Consider how far you have fallen.” Repent. Fight for your relationship with God. To those who overcome are given access to paradise.

To him who Overcomes = Victory
Revelation 2:11 Victorious will not be hurt by second death.
Revelation 2:17 Victorious are given a white stone hidden manna.
Revelation 2:26 Victorious are given authority over nations, a throne, and be with Jesus.
Revelation 3:5 Victorious will never be blotted out from book of life. They will know God.
Revelation 3:12 Victorious will have name of God on them.
Revelation 3:21 Victorious will receive the right to sit on throne with Jesus.
Ephesians 2:6 Judging angels.

3) It’s all about your vision.
John 19:23-37 “When the soldiers crucified Jesus…” The quote “They will look on the one they have pierced” is from a prophecy in Zechariah 12:10 about Jesus’ death and the salvation it brings for the faithful. Jesus knew the vision for his own death: to bring all people to him.
- What will the cross motivate you to do today? Will you change your life for Jesus?