Canopy Church Chicago

In this standalone teaching from Easter Sunday, Joseph shares an update about Canopy Online and our meeting rhythms. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

In this standalone teaching from Easter Sunday, we look Paul's words from Philippians 3 about what is most valuable. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

We conclude our series "Elementals," looking at the mysterious biblical figure known as the "Pneuma," the Advocate, the Spirit. We consider the teachings of Jesus about the coming Advocate, and what it means that it's better that we have the presence of the Spirit with us than Jesus himself. Finally, we consider what it is that the Spirit is doing in our time. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

We continue our series "Elementals," looking at how one man forever changed the course of human history culture. We consider what it means that Jesus was the "Messiah," and what the gospel really is. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

We continue our series "Elementals," looking at how, although we live in a disenchanted age, the universal longings for truth, goodness and beauty point us to transcendence, and how we might find God in those longings. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

We continue our series "Elementals," looking at the Greek concept of the "Logos," a single, unifying principle that binds all reality into a cohesive, knowable whole. We consider the difficulties we have discerning truth in our time, and whether the Bible provides a reliable testimony of truth. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

We begin a new series "Elementals," with a look at how we arrived at such a polarized and divided world, and how the deep, philosophical matter of Truth – what we believe or assume it is, and how we come to discover it – could provide us a way out. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

From Canopy Church's Launch Day. As we all look to 2021 with hope and expectation, we may discover that we are making risky investments with our hope. In this teaching we explore two reality-defining promises of God from Revelation 21 and Isaiah 43 describing "God's grand renewal project." We consider what these promises hold for us at the start of a new year, and at the start of this brand new church. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

Canopy Church celebrates its first Christmas by reflecting on the significance of Isaiah 9. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

One last, big missing piece needs to be added to the biblical theology of celebration. In this penultimate teaching for the series "Pushing Back the Darkness," Joseph Taylor teaches on premature celebration, sin, and Isaiah 40:3-5. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

Based on Psalm 33:1-3, Pastor Joseph Taylor teaches why apprentices of Jesus have this peculiar habit of singing every time we get together. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

Is celebration really a discipline? Pastor Joseph Taylor teaches through a survey of several biblical passages, exploring the biblical case for celebration. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

Pastor Joseph Taylor teaches about how we can push back the darkness by joining our celebrating God, the one for whom the act of creating, and the creation itself, is imbued with the joy of celebration. For more information, visit canopychicago.org

Exploring the biblical and sociological roots of liminality in order to name our season, and learn to navigate it like Jesus.

Jesus radically shifted what it means to be the people of God and to be part of a family. Today we begin exploring what that means for Canopy as start forming "Canopy Communities" around the city.

Jesus embodied the art and practice and hospitality. Hospitality is what turns strangers into friends, and friends into family.

Over the next few months we will be looking at our core "Startup Practices," which will be an essential part of Canopy becoming a counter-cultural movement within the powerfully formative culture of our city. These are the core practices that we intend to define the culture of this new church. Practicing the way of Jesus includes living out the radical generosity of Jesus through the practice of Giving.

Over the next few months we will be looking at our core "Startup Practices," which will be an essential part of Canopy becoming a counter-cultural movement within the powerfully formative culture of our city. These are the core practices that we intend to define the culture of this new church. And we are beginning with the only practice that we really could begin with – prayer. Prayer is the lynchpin upon which all the other practices hinge.

Startup Practices Part 1

Launch Team gathering teachings from Canopy Church in Chicago