Chicago Fellowship Talks

Chicago Fellowship Talks is a podcast featuring keynotes given at Chicago Fellowship's weekly meetings and covers a range of topics.

Turning Right Belief Into Right Action 02/26/2026

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” /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/40247645

Lessons from the Life of Tim Keller 02/26/2026

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/40247325

The Virtue of Rest 02/13/2026

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 attention to shape our lives. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/40099005

The Virtue of Resistance 02/05/2026

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/40010330

The Virtue of Redundancy 01/31/2026

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39942670

Leading from Intimacy 01/23/2026

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39853560

Matthew 1:18-25, “Confessing by Faith” 01/16/2026

Matthew 1:18-25, “Confessing by Faith” We confess that Jesus is Savior by faith by recognizing grace, rejecting fear, and responding to God. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39759525

God's Beloved 01/09/2026

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39677665

Stories from Little Village 12/12/2025

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39376955

Confidence in Our Flesh or Christ? 12/05/2025

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 should look deeper and follow those who may not appear impressive externally, but who have a genuine inner communion with Christ. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39293835

Receiving Uncomfortable Truths as Both a Test of and Tool for Attaining Maturity 11/21/2025

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39117400

The Soul of a Leader 11/14/2025

The Soul of a Leader /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/39032180

Rejecting Passive Participation in Prejudice 11/06/2025

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 so seriously, that he wrote this part of his letter himself with extra-large letters. So, why don't we take discrimination within the church as seriously as Paul did? Why do we passively participate in the prejudice of others? /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38944340

The Generous Way to Abundance 10/30/2025

The Generous Way to Abundance Generosity leads to God's abundant life by rejecting arrogance, reflecting hope, and redefining wealth. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38852730

Understanding Enemy Mode, Narcissism, and the Power of Culture 10/25/2025

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 how Rare Leadership is the antidote to the enemy mode and narcissism that create toxic cultures. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38777890

Your Circumstances Don't Define You 10/16/2025

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 life. In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul argues strongly that the fullness of the Christian life is available to anyone, anywhere. Therefore, when we think certain circumstances are more sacred or valuable to God, we are missing the gospel and drifting into a dangerous form of idolatry. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38608025

Tangible Hope 10/10/2025

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38545885

Hypocrites! 10/02/2025

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 the antidotes for twin errors that hypocrisy creates. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38448950

Chicago and Violence Reduction 09/25/2025

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 sides of various conflicts on the streets of Chicago. By God’s grace they amazingly all now work collaboratively at Together Chicago to help end the violence on our streets. God has been at work in each of them and we were blessed by their stories and by hearing about the progress that has been made in bringing down the level of violence and by learning more about what the real issues are now on our streets. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38358795

Psalm 51:12, “The Sound of Salvation.” 09/19/2025

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38284360

Retreat Session 3: Panel Discussion 09/15/2025

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. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38231275

Retreat Session 2: The Craft and Character of Leadership 09/15/2025

Retreat Session 2: The Craft and Character of Leadership Steve Carter challenges us attendees to pursue excellence in both their craft and their character. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38230945

Retreat Session 1: Soldier, Athlete, Farmer 09/15/2025

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? /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38230835

Full-Brained Christianity 09/05/2025

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 routinely what Jesus said and does it without having to think much about it. /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/38105475

CF - Jon Houghton - 062625 06/30/2025

CF - Jon Houghton - 062625 /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/37229830

Ray Carter - Chicago Fellowship - 061925 06/24/2025

Ray Carter - Chicago Fellowship - 061925 /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/37128010

Skye Jethani - Chicago Fellowship - 060525 06/24/2025

Skye Jethani - Chicago Fellowship - 060525 /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/37127860

Skye Jethani - Chicago Fellowship - 052925 06/24/2025

Skye Jethani - Chicago Fellowship - 052925 /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/37127850

David Swanson - Chicago Fellowship - 052225 06/24/2025

David Swanson - Chicago Fellowship - 052225 /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/37127800

Why are we following Jesus? - Skye Jethani - 051525 05/16/2025

Why are we following Jesus? - Skye Jethani - 051525 /episode/index/show/chicagofellowship/id/36595995

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