Gilead Chicago: LIVE

Feb 18 2025 156 ep. 15 mins 4
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Welcome! We're Chicago's queer storytelling bar church, and we're so glad you're with us today. We worship through life-saving personal stories, beautiful worship, and great parties. Listen to this weekly podcast to get a taste of our open and affirming, anti-racist, local, organic, slow-church, just peace, free range, "real-butter-Christian" services. (We know we're a lot of things, and we love other people who are also a lot of things ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈) Join our party in-person on Sundays @ 5pm CT! More details on our socials @gileadchicago !

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"I owed them one when..."

Feb 18 2025 16 mins  
This week’s sermon comes from Vince, preaching on the theme of Forgive Us Our Debts: stories of making good, settling scores and loan forgiveness. Vince says that he has two sermons on forgiveness, and he shares them both with us today. SUPPORTAs we continue to have services and celebrations so that we can close Gilead with celebration and joy, we still could always use your supp

"I sweat my ass off when..."

Feb 06 2025 15 mins  
This week’s sermon comes from Rebecca. She preaches for the final week of January’s “Blood, Sweat and Tears” theme and specifically, on the sweat part of it. It’s about sweating our asses off to interpret, to spread the word of the gospel, to adapt and change and bring these old stories into the present moment. And into the future. Sweating our asses off to tell true stor

Every Story is a God Story

Jan 16 2025 13 mins  
This week’s sermon is a little different, because in it, Rebecca addresses the heartbreaking decision to end Gilead. I attended service in person for this sermon, and I gotta say, I’m glad I was there. But for those of you who weren’t, or for those of you who would just like to listen again, here it is. After a vote by the congregation to close the church during the service

Epiphany

Jan 10 2025 13 mins  
Today’s sermon comes from Vince. Vince gave this sermon on January 5th, so the theme for the week was Epiphany. And in his story, Vince touches on the history of the Magii, their origins as firekeepers. He offers the thought that maybe, rather than journeying for self knowledge, journeying to find answers, the Magii knew their way to Jesus because they spent so many long, bored n

"I had to improvise when..."

Dec 19 2024 17 mins  
Today’s sermon comes from Rebecca as a part of our Advent series, for which our theme is “preppers”. Yes, like doomsday preppers… This week, specifically, Rebecca works with improvisation as a form of readiness. She talks about a time she had to improvise, when all she wanted to do was be at least a little bit prepared. SUPPORT You can help us keep doing our thangggg (i

What We'll Need When The World Ends

Dec 11 2024 16 mins  
Today’s sermon comes from Rebecca as a part of our Advent series, for which our theme is “preppers”. Yes, like doomsday preppers…And through her sermon, Rebecca explores the idea of prepping for the apocalypse as an act of hope…after all, doesn’t prepping for the apocalypse assume that when all is said and done, we’ll still be around to rebuild? SUPPORT You can help

Alpha vs. Omega

Nov 29 2024 14 mins  
Today’s sermons once again come from both Vince and Rebecca, originally told on November 24th during our Fight Club series. Our topic this week was “Alpha vs. Omega”. Rebecca, representing the viewpoint of Alpha, makes a case for the beginning of things being what leads to all other things. Before the beginning, there is nothing - what could be more important? While Vince ask

A Time to Weep vs. A Time to Laugh

Nov 21 2024 17 mins  
This week we get sermons from both Vince and Rebecca, as a part of Gilead's "Fight Club" series, where each pastor gives a sermon on (seemingly) opposing viewpoints. This week, our theme is "A Time to Weep vs. A Time to Laugh". Vince explores how sometimes the act of weeping is also an act of finding our people while Rebecca wonders about the possibility that emerges when we allow

“I got what I needed when…”

Oct 24 2024 15 mins  
This sermon is a special one from Rebecca - originally preached on Oct 6th to celebrate National Coming Out day in partnership with the Lighthouse Foundation. They’re an extremely cool social justice organization fighting for black queer equity across Chicago, and we’re proud to be a part of their Coalition of Accomplices for Racial Equity. You can find more info about them her

"I needed protection when…"

Oct 03 2024 17 mins  
Sometimes it’s like… We could totalllyyyyyy tough it out and deal with 99% of our problems alone… but then other times it's like… “Okay but why do it alone tho?” — Vince is preaching on that today (with more nuance 😜), as part of our “Home Away From Home” series. *** SUPPORT You can help us keep doing our thangggg (i.e. existing) by supporting us ⁠here on our