The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

He didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live out your life in comfort and superficial peace.

Nowhere in Scripture do I see a “balanced life with a little bit of God added in” as an ideal for us to emulate. Yet when I look at our churches, this is exactly what I see: a lot of people who have added Jesus to their lives.

would you really be content if we filled up the amphitheater a couple of times a weekend and had ten thousand people at the church? Would you be happy with that at the end of your life? Knowing you, I don’t think you’d be content. Wouldn’t it be better if you could help create a more reproducible model of church that wasn’t so dependent on your spe

The fruit of being led by the Spirit of God includes love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These attitudes and actions will characterize our lives as we allow ourselves to be grown and molded by the Spirit. The

start a movement called Aspiring to the Median, where people commit to living at or below the median U.S. income ($46,000 in 2006) and giving the rest away. Is it intimidating to think about giving radically and liberally?

A: If someone told me that I took the Bible too literally, I would just ask them to examine their heart in asking that. I would ask them if they really believed that we’re not supposed to take it that literally, or if they’re just following the influence of other people who say we’re not supposed to.

think a lot of us need to forget about God’s will for my life. God cares more about our response to His Spirit’s leading today, in this moment, than about what we intend to do next year. In fact, the decisions we make next year will be profoundly affected by the degree to which we submit to the Spirit right now, in today’s decisions.

“I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me” (v. 45). Ouch. To me that is like a stinging, unexpected slap in the face. Like many of you, I’ve heard that passage taught on numerous occasions. I’ve left convicted, but haven’t taken it literally. We see it as a fresh perspective on poverty rathe

There is an epidemic of spiritual amnesia going around, and none of us is immune.