Harbor, Pepperdine Bible Lectures

Jesus was the first to use the term “hypocrite” in the way it’s used to this day. Peter called believers to “rid” themselves of all hypocrisy. He knew the struggle firsthand. Don’t we all? Join us as we explore ways to jettison hypocrisy and walk in integrity.

Learning to Navigate Forgiveness, Shame, and Rhythm.

Learning to Navigate Forgiveness, Shame, and Rhythm.

The father daughter relationship is a divine appointment. Daughters have a way of teaching even the strongest men that love is gentle, patient and kind. Fathers teach their daughters what true love looks like. In this class we will explore the do's and don'ts of being a girl dad and how the love of Christ restores even the most fragile relationships.

Join us for a practical and hope-filled workshop as we cast a vision for family legacy and the long work of raising mature Christ-followers. Research consistently shows that parents and grandparents remain the most influential voices in passing faith to future generations—yet in today’s cultural climate, that calling can feel more complex than ever.   This session is designed to help you prepare your child for adult life and healthy relationships. We’ll explore practical strategies that cultivate emotional maturity, spiritual resilience, and relational wisdom—qualities that prepare young adults to build strong homes and to live faithfully and connected in any season of life.   You’ll leave with clear insights and renewed confidence as you guide your child toward adulthood and a life grounded in faith.

This session focuses on personal or disputable elements, those elements where Christians disagree with each other inside the same church.

God has always led His people by His loving presence. This session explores love as God's guiding force, calling the church to discern His leading and to follow with trust and courage amid religious and cultural pressures. The church in America is torn between niceness without truth and truth without gentleness—weakening its witness to Christ. In that tension, love is often replaced by power rather than presence. Scripture offers a more excellent way: love rooted in trust, not control. This session explores how God’s love leads by presence, forming disciples as we walk with God—and with one another—over time.

Scripture often holds together truths we are tempted to separate. This session explores the “middle way”—a life shaped by discernment, where love refuses extremes and learns to hold tension faithfully. We will consider how this kind of wisdom forms communities that sustain unity across differing convictions and stages of spiritual maturity, embodying love as the more excellent way.

Loving as a service and loving as an ethic are two different things. Let's compare and contrast.

This two-part presentation, first focuses on the radical essence of love, from a peacekeeping to a peacemaking motif, in a world and church that can often find itself stuck in silence. Additionally, we will explore an individualized and collective journey through our Restoration heritage with challenges, successes, and ephiphanies along the way. Come hear a story and be prepared to highlight yours.

Ministry can be both a sacred calling and a significant strain on marriage. In this session, we’ll cast a compelling vision for what a thriving ministry marriage can look like and why relational health is not optional for long-term ministry fruitfulness. Drawing from the RelateStrong framework, we’ll explore how couples get caught in predictable cycles of pain and how they can move toward patterns of peace, connection, and growing intimacy that lasts. You’ll leave with a fresh perspective, a simple relational lens for understanding what’s happening when in conflict, and practical next steps for strengthening “us” in the midst of ministry demands. This session is for leaders who want their marriage to be a source of strength.

This class honestly examines the divide between Churches of Christ and Christian Churches, what it has cost us, what is possible, and what Scripture demands of us. We will name the obstacles clearly and explore practical paths toward the unity Jesus prayed for in John 17. Come ready to reckon with our division — and to imagine what a shared future could actually look like.

Christians can fall into a life of practical deism. We should be aware that the Gospel is the message of Jesus and should be accompanied by the power of Jesus.

Saving faith is not just eternal life insurance. In the letter of Romans, Paul presents a robust understand of the gospel, and what it means to be saved by faith. For Paul, faith is like a three-legged stool. It involves right beliefs about God’s trustworthiness, responding in trust to these beliefs, and living a life of obedient faith and loyalty to our trustworthy God.

Jesus sends the same Spirit he sent to the early church to help the church pursue the same mission today. But does he still help in the same way?

How I Love Your 'Law!' Really!? The Psalmist declares not devotion but "love" for Torah, what is that about? How can any one love "law" much less the "Law of Moses?" What is Torah about that makes God's people declare it to be "sweeter than honey?

Jesus sends the same Spirit he sent to the early church to help the church pursue the same mission today. But does he still help in the same way?

Everyone wants to love and be loved, but there are some unnatural acts that are uncomfortable and even embarrassing that must be talked about. Come be challenged and encouraged to be a better lover!

An application of Mark Twain’s insight, “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” to challenges that the Church is facing. The class covers momentous episodes from the past that resonate with the present. The discussion would be interactive where the participants would weigh in on the takeaways.

Doug Peters will host a panel from Heritage21 (Mike O’Neal, Blair Bryan, Scott Lambert) to discuss all aspects of stewarding church assets and properties for kingdom expansion, no matter where churches might be in their lifecycles. Attendees will receive a practical spiritual discernment resource of scripture, prayer prompts and reflection questions called “Spiritual Discernment For Challenged Churches.

Learning to Navigate Forgiveness, Shame, and Rhythm.

Jesus was the first to use the term “hypocrite” in the way it’s used to this day. Peter called believers to “rid” themselves of all hypocrisy. He knew the struggle firsthand. Don’t we all? Join us as we explore ways to jettison hypocrisy and walk in integrity.

Jesus sends the same Spirit he sent to the early church to help the church pursue the same mission today. But does he still help in the same way?

The "good Christian girl" she once was no longer exists. She has learned that "the more excellent way" is not always the compliant one. Jesus is the more excellent way—not rule keeping. He ate with sinners. He got down in the dirt with the marginalized.

The role of ministry spouse has been one that is often undervalued, taken for granted, and misunderstood in many churches.  Join me as we take a look at different “styles” of ministry spouses and explore the incredible impact when ministry spouses are fully empowered by the Holy Spirit to fulfill a vital purpose in the body of Christ that is often unseen.