Teacher

Chip's direct, practical teaching style helps everyday believers apply God's truth to relevant issues, relationships and challenges. Reaching more than a million people a week, his teaching can be heard online and through hundreds of radio and television outlets worldwide. In his winsome, down-to-earth way, he reveals Bible truth about God's perspective on marriage, understanding love and sex, raising kids, money and how to overcome painful emotion and circumstances.

Author

Chip is the author of fourteen books, including his most recent releases: Spiritual Simplicity, Good to Great in God's Eyes and Overcoming Emotions that Destroy. Reaching more than a million people a week, his teaching can be heard online and through hundreds of radio and television outlets worldwide. Chip and his wife, Theresa, have four children and eight grandchildren.

Pastor

Today, Chip serves as senior pastor of Venture Christian Church in Los Gatos, California, and president of Living on the Edge – an international teaching and discipleship ministry. Over the last twenty-five years Chip has pastored churches ranging from 500 to 5,000 and served as president of Walk through the Bible. Chip holds an M.S. degree from West Virginia University and a Th.M. degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.

Coach

An avid basketball player throughout high school and college, Chip originally envisioned a career as a coach. As God’s plan unfolded, he realized his calling was not to coach athletes, but to coach people. He has a unique ability to challenge believers to live out their faith in ways that help them experience God’s presence like never before … and still plays basketball regularly.

Venture Christian Church exists to transform the Bay Area from a place of spiritual darkness to a global center of teaching and discipleship of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

This dynamic church, based in Los Gatos, CA, partners with Living on the Edge and like-minded churches in the area to accomplish it's mission of producing r12 Christians… here, there and everywhere.