Chicago Fellowship Talks

Drawing on brain science, Skye Jethani explains why Jesus avoided making his communication and his community too easy, and why we need more resistance to grow as his followers.

The recording begins about 7 minutes into the talk due to a recording error—we apologize for any inconvience. We love efficiency—but there are areas in life where we actually need redundancy. Skye Jethani explains why redundancy used wisely can build communities and save lives.

How do we avoid leading in our own strength? In this talk, Jon Kelly reminds us that the stewardship of leadership should flow from our intimacy with Jesus. This is the distinguishing mark of a godly leader.

We confess that Jesus is Savior by faith by recognizing grace, rejecting fear, and responding to God.

Jon Houghton describes the three-step cycle of the Christian life: identity as God's Beloved, formation into Christlikeness, and working for the flourishing of others.

Pastor Paco Amador shares stories of 37 years of ministry in Little Village including reflections on recent stories with ICE agents in the neighborhood.

In his letter to the Philippians, the Apostle Paul warns about choosing teachers and mentors with impressive religious credentials. Spiritual maturity, he says, is not revealed by what he calls "flesh"—education, heritage, natural abilities, and visible symbols like circumcision. Instead, we should look deeper and follow those who may not appear impressive externally, but who have a genuine inner...

Jon walks through six common deflection techniques and two dismissing strategies we too often use to avoid truths that could help us become who God has created us to be.

Continuing our study of the Apostle Paul's view of circumcision, this week focuses on Galatians 6. To perpetuate a popular view that certain groups were inferior to others, some Christians required others to be circumcised. Paul believed this was so contrary to the gospel, and he took the issue so seriously, that he wrote this part of his letter himself with extra-large letters. So, why don't we...