Teaching of the Week

In 1995, Steve Hawthorne gave a series of teachings at Hope Chapel, on Tuesday evenings if memory serves. He was exploring the ideas around “The Story of His Glory”, a major theme in his life, teachings, and writings. This is the second of these teachings, delivered on 11 October 1995.

In 1995, Steve Hawthorne gave a series of teachings at Hope Chapel, on Tuesday evenings if memory serves. He was exploring the ideas around “The Story of His Glory”, a major theme in his life, teachings, and writings. This is the first of these teachings, delivered on 4 October 1995.

George Miley is currently writing a book called “Leaders Following.” Ten years ago, on 11 May 2011, he gave a short meditation on leadership at Fr. Peter’s Achana meeting.

Andy Jackson (a friend from Phoenix, Antioch Network, and ITN) shares about his discovery of riches in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Teaching given at the Antioch Network gathering in Phoenix on 30 January 2018.

Covenant community was a theme of the recent visit to the Alleluia Community in Georgia. It is good to go back and revisit Rabbi Mark Kinzer’s teaching on this topic, from his first visit to CTR in 2018. Teaching given on 10 February 2018 at Christ the Reconciler.

The fourth in our Foundation of Community series is, like the third, brought to us by Merisha Janke, our friend from Help for All Nations. Merisha speaks from her experience growing up in the Lüdenscheid community in Germany. She focuses on confession one to another as a crucial part of living in the light, and the power of the cross to deliver us from all hidden sin. Teaching given on June 19, 20...

During our season of studying the Upper Room Discourse, Phillip offered the community a short reflection on John 16. Teaching given on 22 Sept 2018 at Christ the Reconciler.

Merisha Janke was invited by Pastor John McComb to give the sermon on Palm Sunday 2021 (March 28). She was asked to speak on the topic of "Repentance and Forgiveness." Merisha invited Thomas Cogdell to give a brief testimony at the end, about both personal and identificational repentance.

The 2nd teaching in the “Foundations of Reconciliation” series, following Caroline’s teaching on The Accuser of the Brethren. Amy & Caroline work together to further unpack the ways in which we invite the Accuser into our minds, our lives, and the church - and how to instead welcome the Advocate, the Holy Spirit! Teaching given at Christ the Reconciler on 15 May 2021.

Michael Salm is a member of the German nobility, and currently leads the association of European nobility. In this talk, he describes his heritage and background - both the glory, and the shame. Explaining his ancestors’ sins against the Jewish people, he repents to the gathering of mostly Messianic Jews. Prince Michael, from a historically Catholic family, married Princess Philippa from the Caste...

Sr. Mary Paul carries Fr. Peter’s anointing to speak about both the Holy Spirit, and also the return of the Lord in glory. In this talk, given at CTR on 18 January 2020, she unfolds 5 dimensions of the Holy Spirit's work in the world to prepare for the 2nd coming. Glory!

Caroline Owens is on the leadership team of Christ the Reconciler, a community of followers of Jesus seeking to live out John 17. She prepared this teaching for the first retreat back at CTR after a year-long pause because of the coronavirus. The teaching was given on April 17, 2021. Caroline has been married to her husband Phillip for over 30 years. They have six children. Caroline is a Roman Cat...

George Miley presents a teaching drawn from the third chapter of his new book on leadership. He talks about the unusual kingdom characteristic of submission, in a Godly leader. Teaching given for the Antioch Network Virtual Gathering on 13 March 2021.

Merisha Janke was invited by Pastor John McComb to give the sermon on Palm Sunday 2021 (March 28). She was asked to speak on the topic of "Repentance and Forgiveness." Merisha invited Thomas Cogdell to give a brief testimony at the end, about both personal and identificational repentance.

Ludwig looks from his perspective as a German, at the divisive political climate in the USA (and also in Germany). We have much to learn from our German brothers & sisters! Teaching given for the Antioch Network Virtual Gathering on 13 March 2021.

Danny speaks of the importance of community in our walk as followers of Jesus. The Protestant Reformation swung the emphasis more to the individual’s relationship with God - a needed corrective for the Church of 500 years ago. Have we overcorrected? Have we neglected the aspect of walking together, as one? Danny brings his usual sharp thinking and humble, careful approach to bear on this important...

Dr. Jackson describes the arrival in the US of so many "exiles" from various branches of the Eastern Orthodox church, and the challenges as well as opportunities presented for building unity between East and West. This was the 2nd talk given by Andy Jackson at Christ the Reconciler on 21 Feb 2015.

On a visit to CTR in 2015, Dr. Andrew Jackson spoke of God’s work of disorientation in his life. Disorientation is typically viewed negatively, but Andy describes how it was necessary to wake him up to the beauty of the body of Christ in the Eastern Orthodox church. Teaching given on 21 Feb 2015.

George speaks about the importance of inner healing for an apostolically-gifted leader. This powerful talk, on 12 January 2011, was the final of three from George on the topic of apostolic leadership in the Antioch Gathering in Seattle. After the talk was over, a holy silence descended on the group, and we remained in the palpable presence of the Lord for at least an hour.

Talk given in Wittenberg on 3 November 2017.

Talk given on 9 Nov 2011

Teaching given at CTR on January 20, 2018.

This is the third teaching given in a series on Maturing toward Wholeness in the Inner Life at Christ Church Anglican in Phoenix, on 31 July 2011.

Vladimir Pikman is a leading Messianic Jewish rabbi in Berlin, who also teaches at Dallas Theological Seminary. In this short talk, given at a TJCII dinner in Dallas on 3 November 2016, he wonderfully weaves together themes from Ephesians 2 and John 17.

This was Dan Davis’ final sermon at Hope Chapel, on 8 September 2019. In all the years of pastoring, he had never preached a single sermon about the return of Jesus. He worked with Sandi Pedrotti to prepare a sermon that drew on Louis Dahlier’s four points of the Spirit preparing the earth for the return of the King. At the end of the sermon, he asks Sandi to close it out for him from his notes, a...