Bright Star Church Chicago Sermons

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Pastor Chris Harris preaches from 1 Peter 2:9 calling the congregation to embrace their identity as chosen, royal, holy and peculiar, move from mere Sunday religion to daily consecration empowered by the Holy Spirit, respond to God quickly, and engage in church mission and ministries (prayer meetings, outreach events, baptism, volunteer teams).

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Sermon from Bright Star & St. James (I AM NOT REGULAR) emphasizing Christian identity (chosen, royal priesthood), the cost and purpose of the anointing, consecration and surrender, practical calls to repentance/salvation, corporate prayer and outreach (tabernacle project, Greater Bronzeville initiatives, PATS), and invitations to give, join, and engage in weekly prayer calls.

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Bright Star & St. James Sunday service featured worship, congregational announcements, community outreach initiatives, and a sermon titled "Walk it Out" (2 Cor. 5:6–8) emphasizing walking by faith not by sight. Leaders promoted regular prayer calls, a capital campaign/tabernacle project, back-to-school resource events, grief support, and the Prayer Around the Schools (PATS) initiative calling 1,000 houses of worship to cover schools in monthly prayer. The service included altar invitations, a call to tithing/giving, and recognition of Mother Lillian Hall with an annual Church Mother's Day observance.

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A Sunday worship service centered on Psalm 107: how God meets people in their deepest struggles — the lost, the bound, the foolish, and those caught in storms — with practical calls to prayer, evangelism, stewardship, and going into 'deep water' ministry, plus community announcements, back-to-school blessings for children, and an invitation to salvation.

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A Sunday worship service with announcements, corporate prayer, giving/tithing encouragement, evangelistic invitations, and a sermon from Psalm 13 addressing lament, waiting, and trusting God’s unfailing love. Practical steps for the waiting season included prayer, praise, Scripture, service, surrender, and personal readiness.

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Guest preacher Pastor Chris Williams exhorted the congregation to "let God level the playing field," using Paul's trial (Acts 23) to show how God allows hardship to display His supernatural power, urging reliance on testimony, prayer, and spoken faith. The service included an altar call for salvation and returnees, communion, tithes/offerings, and community announcements.

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Pastor Chris Williams preaches from 1 Chronicles 4:9–10 (Jabez), teaching that God blesses lives marked by prayer, pain, and purity. The message encourages persistent prayer (“Bless me indeed; enlarge my territory”), reframes suffering as preparation for blessing, calls believers to seek God’s direction over perfection, and includes invitations and church announcements.

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Pastor Chris Harris preached a celebratory Sunday message (his 5th pastoral anniversary) encouraging the congregation that God will complete the work He began in them. Using Philippian assurance and the caterpillar-to-butterfly metaphor, he taught that the work is conceived by God, continued by grace, and will be completed in glory. The service included worship, testimony, an altar call for salvation/recommitment, a call to support the pastor during a planned vocal-rest, and an offering appeal.

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A Father's Day worship service focused on the theme that God has begun a good work in believers and that grace continues and sustains that work. Pastor emphasizes that unfinished does not mean unwanted, celebrates humble beginnings, warns against selective or "convenient" conviction, and issues invitations for salvation, recommitment, and church membership. The service also includes church announcements (capital campaign, prayer calls, outreach cohort), a pitch for Bright Star Community Outreach's Turn Model Replication Cohort, worship, offering, and pastoral prayer.

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A virtual New Year's Eve watch service focused on thanksgiving for surviving 2020, trusting Jesus through the 'perfect storm' of the pandemic, and entering 2021 prepared to 'cross over' into God’s promises. Pastor Chris Harris emphasized community assistance, discipleship (discover, develop, deploy), prayer, worship, giving, sanctification/separation for spiritual growth, and gave an altar invitation.