Chicago Fellowship Talks

How we love one another with our time, talents, and treasure which is our witness to Jesus.

This talk examines Jesus's homecoming to Nazareth in Luke 4:14-30 to learn what it has to teach Christians about the danger of self-sufficiency over finding our sufficiency in Christ.

Spiritual maturity doesn't happen automatically. Scripture calls us to grow beyond spiritual infancy and become more like Jesus. But how do we actually grow? Building on Ephesians 4 and Hebrews 5, we'll explore how taking responsibility for our spiritual diet—going deeper in Scripture, engaging challenging ideas, and learning from different perspectives—helps us grow in wisdom, discernment, and...

What does it mean to become a spiritually mature Christian? Jon Houghton explores how learning to carry sorrow and hope together helps cultivate a durable faith and grows our capacity to love. Drawing on Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and his own experience, Jon introduces two practices: lament and remembering God's faithfulness. Part one of a two-part series on developing spiritual maturity.

As modern people, we assume every problem has a knowable, formulaic, and predictable solution. When we apply this to our faith, however, we run into a problem—God is mysterious beyond our undestanding. Drawing from a story about Moses that challenges our definitions of success and failure, Skye explains the difference between having a mechanical and an agricultural understanding of our faith.

Moderated by Jon Houghton, panelists Charlie Dates, Paco Amador, Greg Lernihan, Steve Carter, and David Dillon have a candid conversation about what it takes for marketplace leaders, nonprofits, and churches across Chicago's socioeconomic and racial spectrum to work together for the flourishing of the city.

2026 Retreat Session 2

2026 Retreat Session 1

Disciples of Jesus bear witness to his salvation by the Father's authority, the Son's commission, and the Holy Spirit's power.

As our culture becomes more divided by identity politics and tribal loyalties, we can slip into thinking that God views people the way we do—based on labels. Drawing from the story of Jesus being rejected by his hometown and the Old Testament story of the Exodus, Skye shows how God does not conform to our group biases. Instead, he affirms virtue among our enemies and punishes evil among our...