Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
Join Spotlight for a special, hope-filled episode where we feature Walt Heyer’s testimony of how Christ saved him out of his lifestyle in sexual sin.
Walt Heyer underwent gender reassignment surgery at age 42 and lived for 8 years as a woman. In his testimony, Walt shares how Christ saved him from gender dysphoria, homelessness, and drunkenness.
“It is so important that when you hear that people can’t come back out of this lifestyle that you actually see a witness that says you can.
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Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
November 7, 2025 featured Illinois Family Institute’s annual Faith, Family & Freedom banquet.
In his address to over 700 attendees, Executive Director, David Smith, outlined IFI’s mission to standing firm against the spiritual battles that Illinois is facing.
“Illinois is now poised to become the 12th jurisdiction and the first midwest state to normalize suicide…
We must pray… that Governor Pritzker would veto this legislation.”
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Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
On November 17th at around 9 pm on Chicago’s L Train, Bethany Magee, a 26 year old woman, was doused in gasoline and set on fire by Lawrence Reed.
The infuriating part of this horrific crime is not only the crime itself, but the looming fact that this atrocity was completely preventable.
Why? Because Lawrence Reed is another “career criminal” with 72 prior arrests. A very long rap sheet.
To understand the nature of just how preventable this incident was, Reed’s criminal context is important.… Continue Reading
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
Our culture is in desperate need of a biblical perspective on marriage and family.
In this episode of Spotlight, Scott Phelps, head of the Abstinence and Marriage Partnership organization, discusses how to restore a biblical perspective of marriage and family in Generation Z and the future generations.
“The purpose of abstinence isn’t to avoid problems… it is to prepare you for the marriage relationship.”
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This week’s Spotlight episode features a conversation about Christian education between Pastor Caesar LeFlore and Pastor Courtney Lewis of Cornerstone Baptist Church located in Chicago.
Five years ago, pastor Courtney Lewis was involved in starting a school out of his church– Cornerstone Baptist Academy.
“[Chicago public schools] have failed our youth…
People nationwide were exiting public schools to the tune of about a million people over the past ten years.
We had no money, no facilities, and no staff… In the course of three months, we watched the Lord bring in all of those resources to allow us to open our doors.”
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How should we view immigration from a biblical perspective?
Dr. Shando Valdez, a political consultant, clergy organizer, and senior pastor at New Jerusalem Baptist church in Chicago, answers this very question in this week’s Spotlight episode.
“[Jesus] understood that countries have laws, that countries have borders.”
This is an episode you will not want to miss.
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In this episode, Rev. Caesar LeFlore is joined by Cynthia Morales from Pro-Life Champions.
Cynthia, and her husband John, started their pro-life advocacy with the “40” film, a powerful documentary featuring Abby Johnson and others on the reality of the aftermath of abortion.
This project led them to start “Shout My Story,” a campaign started to combat Shout My Abortion:
“The Shout My Story campaign was created in response to websites like ShoutYourAbortion.com
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In this important episode of Spotlight, Illinois State Representative Jed Davis (R-Yorkville) shares about the upcoming Lame Duck session in the Illinois Legislature and troubling concerns that he sees with the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS).
Rep. Davis has a civil engineering degree, and served as board president for Yorkville’s Parkview Christian Academy.
“The state is running around investigating families and the people leading these investigations are interns who lack the experience.”
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Written by Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch
Under federal law, Election Day in the United States is not two days, two weeks or two months. It is a single day. That anyone might insist otherwise is difficult to imagine.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, a case challenging Illinois’ decision to count mail-in-ballots that arrive up to 14 days after Election Day. For 80 years, Election Day has been held on the same day in November.… Continue Reading
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The Fall Veto Session in the Illinois State Legislature is coming up.
IFI Springfield Lobbyist, David Curtin, gives insight into what we can expect regarding the response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination and more.
“In Illinois, the Democrats have really not found the opportunity to turn down the rhetoric because they are in power no matter what they say. They can say anything and the media will back them up…
The media is afraid of the Governor, quite frankly.”
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