Harbor, Pepperdine Bible Lectures

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.