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Chicago Fellowship Talks
by Chicago Fellowship
Chicago Fellowship Talks is a podcast featuring keynotes given at Chicago Fellowship's weekly meetings and covers a range of topics.
Episodes
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Spiritual Maturity, Part 2: Moving from Milk to Meat
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...
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Spiritual Maturity: Holding Sorrow and Hope Together
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...
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God is Uncontrollable
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...
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Working Together for the Flourishing of Chicago
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…
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Retreat Session 2
2026 Retreat Session 2
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Retreat Session 1
2026 Retreat Session 1
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Acts 1:6-12, "God Enables Our Witness."
Disciples of Jesus bear witness to his salvation by the Father's authority, the Son's commission, and the Holy Spirit's power.
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God is Not Biased
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…
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Lecrae Interview
Skye Jethani interviews Lecrae in a wide ranging conversation about faith, identy, business and more.
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The Examined Life
Chicago Fellowship Director Jon Houghton describes how leading an examined life can lead to caring well for others in our life and even in our death.
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What Will Change on Monday?
What happens when salvation comes to your house—but Monday morning still arrives? In this Chicago Fellowship podcast, Pastor Steve Carter explores the story of Zacchaeus, the parable of the minas, and Jesus' invitation to move from willful blindness to wholehearted allegiance, discovering how the...
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Why God's Anger is Better than Ours
Christian leaders and influencers are increasingly displaying their outrage as a sign of their passion for God and commitment to his truth. They say their anger is righteous because it reflects God's anger. But Jesus warns us about the danger of anger, and Paul explicitly says that vengeance is...
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Our Firm Identity as Men
What does it look like to grow into full spiritual fathers for others? This talk explores the identity that is found in Jesus and the gospel, an identity to live fully loved, fully accepted, nothing to hide, nothing to prove, and nothing to lose.
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Resuscitation vs Resurrection
Jesus raised Lazarus from the grave, but Lazarus was not transformed. He was still mortal, subject to the curse, and destined to die again. In other words, Lazarus was resuscitated; he was not truly resurrected. This message contrasts the difference between being rescued by God and being reborn,...
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Spectacle vs Subtlety
When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, it was his most public and spectacular miracle ever. But why were most of his miracles before this marked by secrecy and subtlety instead? In this message, Skye explores the role spectacles play in our faith, why we are so drawn to them, and why they…
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Collateral
Every man has a calling. Not every man counts what it costs the people closest to him. Through the forgotten story of Obadiah, we examine the hidden price families pay when a man runs hard after purpose and never looks back.
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From Hopeless to Hope Full
In a world that can seem hopeless at times, God promises to fill us with hope! He helps us move forward by looking back at the receipts of his faithfulness through the Bible, through our lives and through the lives of others.
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Loving Your Polarized Neighbor
In this session, Rev. Dr. C.E. Campbell shares his personal experience with political polarization, how it has impacted his church, and lessons he has learned while seeking to engage those who are given over to it.
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Glory & Immortality, From Hero to Saint
Patrick Fisher opens up Luke 10 and Classical Greek literature to explore how Jesus satisfies our hunger for immortality, transforming self-focused heroism into a life reflecting God's glory as a saint.
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Hebrews 11:1-3, "Activated Faith."
Believing God about his future and his presence allows us to accept God's invitations with living faith.
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Why We're Offended
Dallas Willard said, "A mature follower of Jesus is almost impossible to offend." If that's true, why are so many Christians offended so often? By examining several scenes surrounding Jesus' arrest, Skye outlines three reasons followers of Jesus are offended, how each reveals our immaturity, and…
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Revelation 4, "Translating Reality"
Worship translates our day-to-day circumstances by acknowledging God's transcendence, exalting God's attributes and actions, and proclaiming God's supremacy.
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Godly Ambition
Jon Houghton and Austin Carr have a candid conversation about the pursuit of Godly ambition.
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Revelation 2:1-7, "Love Powers Endurance."
There is much for followers of Jesus to endure in this life but sometimes our endurance can distract us from our love for one another. Jesus invites to return to the "love we had at first."
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Turning Right Belief Into Right Action
Jon Houghton teaches us how to turn our "right belief" that all people are created in the image of God into "right action"
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Lessons from the Life of Tim Keller
Collin Hansen Editor in Chief at The Gospel Coalition shares lessons learned from the life of Tim Keller.
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The Virtue of Rest
We now live in a world where thousands of businesses are competing every day for our most finite and valuable commodity—our attention. Skye Jethani examines the biblical concept of the Sabbath and why rest is more than a practical discipline for rejuvenation. It's about where we direct our...
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The Virtue of Resistance
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.
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The Virtue of Redundancy
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.
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Leading from Intimacy
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.
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Matthew 1:18-25, "Confessing by Faith"
We confess that Jesus is Savior by faith by recognizing grace, rejecting fear, and responding to God.
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God's Beloved
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.
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Stories from Little Village
Pastor Paco Amador shares stories of 37 years of ministry in Little Village including reflections on recent stories with ICE agents in the neighborhood.
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Confidence in Our Flesh or Christ?
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…
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Receiving Uncomfortable Truths as Both a Test of and Tool for Attaining Maturity
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.
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Rejecting Passive Participation in Prejudice
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…
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The Generous Way to Abundance
Generosity leads to God's abundant life by rejecting arrogance, reflecting hope, and redefining wealth.
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Understanding Enemy Mode, Narcissism, and the Power of Culture
We all have the potential to be toxic. We have to grow our maturity to keep from creating toxic environments. In this presentation you will learn three types of enemy mode, and how it affects the way we look at people. You will learn the relationship between shame and narcissistic behavior and…
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Your Circumstances Don't Define You
In the first of three messages based on the Apostle Paul's view of circumcision, we look at the common problem of defining our value and spirituality based upon our life circumstances. Too often, we think our relationship or vocational status must change in order to truly experience the Christian...
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Tangible Hope
Victor Bourtros, Founder and CEO of Human Trafficking Institute shares their inspiring story of working upstream to end global human trafficking of the most vulnerable.
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Hypocrites!
Hypocrites! No one wants to be seen as one. While most people claim to hate hypocrisy, does our hatred of hypocrisy take our attention from more bald-faced sins? And could a certain kind of hypocrisy be a stepping stone away from other sins and toward virtue? Skye dives into hypocrisy and gives…
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Chicago and Violence Reduction
Chicago Fellowship Board member and Together Chicago Co Founder Dave Dillon interviews three key leaders from Together Chicago and hearing their life stories. Lavonas Troupe, Charles King and Laprentiss Flowers all have past histories in different "tribes" in Chicago and were on very opposing…
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Psalm 51:12, "The Sound of Salvation."
God's salvation sounds like joy because it has the power not just to cover or cleanse our sins but to create new hearts in us, because it is big enough to deliver us from personal sin and societal injustice, and because it spreads from our personal testimonies throughout our communities.
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Retreat Session 3: Panel Discussion
Jon Houghton moderates a panel that includes Skye Jethani, Joe Baker and Austin Carr about how Steve's messages will hit the ground in their lives.
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Retreat Session 2: The Craft and Character of Leadership
Steve Carter challenges us attendees to pursue excellence in both their craft and their character.
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Retreat Session 1: Soldier, Athlete, Farmer
Steve Carter teaches through 2 Timothy 2:3 and asks who is your commanding officer? What is your playbook? And what harvest are they producing?
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Full-Brained Christianity
Chicago Fellowship Executive Director Jon Houghton describes why exclusively left brain discipleship (truth, doctrine, beliefs) and doesn't lead to the character formation we desire and how we can invest in full brain discipleship in order to become the kind of person who does, easily and…
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Chicago Fellowship Talks is a podcast featuring keynotes given at Chicago Fellowship's weekly meetings and covers a range of topics.
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