Chip Ingram is the CEO and teaching pastor of Living on the Edge, an international teaching and discipleship ministry. A pastor for over thirty years, Chip has a unique ability to communicate truth and challenge people to live out their faith. He is the author of many books, including The Real God, Culture Shock and The Real Heaven. Chip and his wife, Theresa, have four grown children and twelve grandchildren and live in California.
As married couples, a lot of us are exhausted and out of ideas to create spiritual intimacy in our relationship. It might feel too vulnerable to seek God together, or you might be in a season where you aren’t interested in any kind of intimacy. Also, many of us have gotten to the point where we’ve resigned ourselves to going through the motions. God designed marriage to be so much more!
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Where is God when we hit rock bottom? What does He think of us when He finds us there? And what does He really think of irreligious, immoral people? By sharing three parables, Jesus gave us the answers. Learn the five significant parts of every redemption story, whether it’s your story or mine.
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Have you ever gotten caught up in the busyness of doing things for God? Serving and reading and praying and checking off all the boxes, and yet—if you were honest—those efforts weren’t exactly producing the free, Spirit-filled, faith you’d expected? In this article, Chip Ingram dispels a popular myth about bearing fruit and shows us a clear picture of what it means to abide in Christ.
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In a recent sermon series, Chip Ingram explores the way our true identity in Christ begins with first understanding what He thinks about us. Do you know what He says about YOU? To jump ahead to each of the 10…
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Every parent has a dream for his or her child, and God is no different. You are His child, and He has a dream for you. Read ahead and uncover that dream, and the way God will help you achieve it with true spirituality.
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All of us struggle from time to time. But some of us are prisoners of our struggles. What’s at the root of these struggles, and how can we experience healing and overcome? Romans 12 provides us with steps to forgive those who’ve hurt or persecuted us.
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What if God is orchestrating a perfect situation in your life, but you’re missing it? You can’t see His wisdom because the circumstances are a mess and seem unbearable, and yet they’re His perfect means to accomplish His perfect plan in you? In this article, we’ll uncover why you can be assured that His plans are good, loving and wise.
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Though love is a universal need, there’s also a tragic disconnect between those who are starved for love and yet haven’t received it. Some people have no idea God even cares for them. Others are aware and have drunk from the ocean of His love.
Still others can see the sparkling, thirst-quenching water and yet they choose not to drink. There’s a huge set of people who’ve tasted the water and then get distracted and live their own way, finding water substitutes.
Your early experiences, your family of origin issues, and your religious training (or lack thereof) have left you with a picture of God in your mind. The problem is that our view of Him is distorted, and that impacts every single decision you make in life. Have you ever considered to what extent? How would your life change if your view of God was clear and true?
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