Dean Chris Lash continues in our Big If True series in Chris' final message here at Judson.

We have Judson favorite, Dr. Lina Abujamra bringing the word.

We have Pastor Devil Lee joining us again to continue in our series of Big If True.

We welcome you all back to a new school year as we kick off with our new series, Big If True, as our Dean Chris Lash shares with us the state of the Church in the US and the Parable of the Sower.

Source material:

• Ben Stuart, On the state of modern Christianity, sermon
• Gordon Conwell, Christianity in a global context, report:
• Philip Jenkins, The New Christendom
• Rebekah McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity
• Rebekah McLaughlin, The Secular Creed
•  Roger Olson, The Story of Christian Theology
• Pew Research, Why people with no religion are projected to decline as a share of the world’s population
• Pew Research, The Future of World Religions, study
• Pew-Templeton, The Future of World Relgions, article
•  NYT, America is Losing Religious Faith, 8/25/23
• Washington Post, The world is expected to grow more religious not less,

We are so thrilled to have had our very own Junior Worship Arts Major Kate Urosevich share with us this morning in chapel as a part of our student voices chapel on believing in how God defines us.

Today we have Derrick Puckett from Renewal Church of Chicago as he wraps up our Tik Tok Thelogy series on the question, Is Jesus Racist?

We are grateful to have our very own Sofia Melton as a part of our Student Voices series.

We are thankful to have Pastor Watson Jones III join us as he talks about how God continues to work in our lives and in the world.

We are so grateful to have had our very own Craig Colin sharing with us as a part of our Student Voices series as he gives an inspiring message on hearing the voice of God.

We are incredibly thankful to have Laurel Bunker returning with us for our Tik Tok Theology series as she spoke on if there is hope for the American Church?

We are glad to have back Bob Lenz with us for chapel, as he spoke on the better life that we can have if find our love in Jesus.

We are thankful to have had the Heritage Counseling Center with us this morning and sharing with us the importance of counseling.

We're excited to have back Rev. Winfred Omar Neely as he continues our series in Tik Tok Theology and how to know that God loves me?

Our Dean Chris Lash guides the University through a time of response and understanding of the current awakening happening in the US amongst colleges and what it can look like for Judson.

We are glad to have had Jeff Reynolds join us for chapel as he talks to us about how faith and science can co-exist.

This week as a part of Race & Justice Week, through the Black Student Union, we have with us Teddy Matthews.

As we begin our Race & Justice week, we are thankful to have had Daniel Yang share with us his and his family's story of suffering and justice.

We close our week of Spiritual Enrichment Week with Christian Dawson as he closes about imagining what our lives would look like when we begin to trust in Jesus.

On our third day of Spiritual Enrichment Week, Christian Dawson continues his series of Confronting Christianity as he speaks about learning how to come to Jesus with your whole self. 

On our second day with Pastor Christian Dawson for Spiritual Enrichment Week, he continues in his series, Confronting Christianity, he speaks on keeping in step with the Holy Spirit.

We are so excited to have Pastor Christian Dawson from Bridgetown Church located in Portland, OR, join us for our annual Spiritual Enrichment Week. In this first installment, Christian shares with us the freedom we can find when we put Jesus in the center of our lives.

We are glad to welcome back Denvil Lee from The Chapel to continue in our series, Tik Tok Theology, as he speaks on how does religion evolve with the times?

For Chapel today, we have Professor Elliott Anderson as a part of our Tik Tok Theology and speaking on how to know that God loves me?

We are grateful to have Megan Fate Marshmann, currently, with Willow Creek Community Church, join us for our Tik Tok Theology series as she speaks on what does it mean to walk with Jesus?

We are excited to welcome back Dr. Lina Abujamra as she continues in our series, "Tik Tok Theology" as she speaks on having a faith that withstands pushback.

We are excited to have Pastor Jen Kelly from Christ Community Church kick off our new series, "Tik Tok Theology". 

We are glad to have our very own, President Dr. Gene Crume as he shares about his heart for the upcoming semester.

We are glad to have back friend of Judson and FCA Area Director Chris Drenth as he talks about the importance of being integrated within a strong Christian community.

We are so thankful to have had JU Alum. Natalia Herckermann join us as she speaks on the goodness of God in all seasons.

We are glad to have Hannah Barnett from Generation Distinct sharing with us about stepping into our calling that God has for our lives.

We are excited to have our very own Judson University Professor Jack Groppel joining us in chapel.

We are glad to have Pastor Dave Mudd and his friends from the Hope Center talk about Reimagining Church.

We are glad to have Pastor Paco Amador from New Life Community Church joining us.

We are glad to have Faith Schiller from Willow Creek to continue in our series of, The Revelation. She takes us through chapter 21 and shares about trusting in the Lord for your future.

We are glad to have Pastor Abi Raices with New Life Covenant Elgin with us this morning as he speaks on God being the foundation of your life.

We are glad to have Kesha Kent with us this morning as she speaks on being the hands and the feet of God.

We continue with our series, The Revelation, with Dean Chris Lash as he reads in chapter 12 about how God will always meet you in your darkness.

In our very special Founders Day Chapel, we have Rev, Huron Claus joining us to share on the importance of God's calling of us all to be leaders.

We continue our series of, The Revelation, with Courtney Wilson from Christ Community Church. She reads in chapter 9 and talks about what God wants to free you from.

We continue our series of, The Revelation, with Jon Jorgenson from Soul City Church, as he speaks on Revelation 6 and how to stand when things fall apart.

We had the opportunity to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with bringing in Pastor Abi Raices as he shares the importance of confessing our sins to a loving Father.

We continue our series of The Revelation with Rev. Darryl Jenkins. In this chapel, he shares how we need to find our focus in God amidst the many different things that may take our attention away.

On a very special Alumni Chapel, during our Homecoming Weekend, we had the privilege of having Rev. Patrick Parks ('19) gives a message on understanding that there is a plan and a purpose for your life.

We continue in our series of The Revelation with Dean Chris Lash as he goes through chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation and how we have the opportunity to reform from within.

We continue with our second installment in our fall series, The Revelation, with Denvil Lee who dives into Revelation 1 and the trust we need in the Lord to go through hard trials.

This chapel welcomes Dr. Joshua Dunn, our speaker for our Constitution Chapel to commemorate Constitution Day and the way the U.S. Constitution continues to impact and shape our lives as Christians.

Teddy Matthews joins us as he shares with us about how we can step into the potential of what God has for us.

We are back for a new semester with the first installment of our series, The Revelation, where we begin with Dean Chris Lash as he introduces the book of Revelation.

Speaker Bob Lenz encourages our students to reach beyond what they know to share the love of God with students and their peers. You won't want to miss this inspiring chapel!

Craig Colin, a junior Christian Ministries major, closes out our Student Voices series by emphasizing the power that prayer has in our lives and how Jesus modeled a lifestyle of prayer.

Sam Acho speaks a special message to the Judson campus on how to process your emotions and relying on the Lord.

Senior Psychology student, Kylie Hansen, shows us how Jesus is willing and capable to wash us and make us a new creation.

Senior Christian Ministries major, Carista Ritchie, talks about how God is with us in our pain and suffering and how He shows up in our darkest moments

Judson University's Dean of Chapel Ministries breaks down if it's bad to deconstruct your faith and the history that surrounds it.

Laurel Bunker, motivational speaker and former campus pastor at Bethel University, answers the question of how we can know that God has a plan for our lives and speaks truth and encouragement to our students.

Former Chaplain for the NFL Chicago Bears, Ray McElroy closes out our Race and Justice series by discussing who are neighbors are, why we should love them, and how we can love them in light of the story of the Good Samaritan and our modern era.

Pastor David Swanson of New Community Covenant Church in Chicago continues in our series on Race and Justice and addresses the topic of the value of multicultural churches

Pastor Juliet Liu from Life on the Vine church in Long Grove, IL kicks off our Race and Justice series by addressing how the Bible shows us that everyone is viewed as equals in the eyes of the Lord and what that means in a modern context.

Pastor Ray Change, Ministry Associate at Wheaton College, tells the story of AACC and the impact they are having in the world.

Pastor Aubrey Sampson, of Renewal Church in West Chicago, addresses the question of whether or not the Bible is Anti-Women with a story from 2 Samuel.

Judson University Trustee Abi Raices addresses the question of how we, as Christians, can navigate our mental health in light of what the Bible says.

Pastor Denvil Lee closes out our Spiritual. Enrichment Week series, Hand Me Downs, and encourages us that God doesn't want us to ignore our reality and the hand me downs we've been given, but rather that our reality can strengthen our faith and draw us closer to Him.

Pastor Denvil Lee continues Hand Me Down, our Spiritual Enrichment Week series, and speaks on how we can mourn what is dead in the things that have been handed down to us, but that we can also rejoice and look forward to the promises that are to come.

Pastor Denvil Lee continues our Spiritual Enrichment Week series Hand Me Down by talking about the story of Gideon and how God can find you where you are with whatever you were handed down with and He will bless you.

Pastor Denvil Lee, Campus Pastor for The Chapel Lake Zurich, kicks off Spiritual Enrichment Week by talking about what we can do with the hand-me-downs we are given in our spiritual life.

Teddy Matthews, NLF Chaplain, answers the question of whether or not God cares about our dating life and gives insightful advice as we continue in our series, Ask Me Anything.

Judson's own Program Chair for Organizational Leadership Studies, Dr. Karen Love, answers the next question in our Ask Me Anything series, as she walks through what students can expect in the year following graduation and gives graduating seniors helpful advice for life after they cross the stage.

Judson University's Dean of University Ministries, Chris Lash, addresses the question of what we should do with the dark parts of Christian history as we move forward in our Ask Me Anything series.

Dr. Charlie Dates, Senior Pastor at Progressive Baptist Church, answers the question of whether or not Christianity is really necessary for justice work as we continue in our series Ask Me Anything.

Montell Jordan answers the question of how we as Christians can bring our faith into the workforce and marketplace without it being "weird" as we continue in our series Ask Me Anything.

Judson University's President, Dr. Gene Crume, walks us through what the Five Year Plan for Judson is as we kick off our Ask Me Anything series.

Join us on Mondays for our Chapel speaker series, Uncommon.

Longtime Chapel friend Lina Abujamra joins the program to talk about her deconstruction faith journey over the last several years.

Dean Chris Lash talks about maturity and the growth that Jesus has for us.

Dean Chris Lash talks Ali and the kinds of gifts Jesus offers the church.

Alumnus Dave Rendall speaks on David & Goliath and how difference makes us great.

Join us for Judson University's 2021 Baptist Heritage Chapel featuring Pastor Jeff Renyolds from First Baptist Church in Bowling Green, KY. 

Rev Patrick Parks continues the Uncommon series with a timely word on the ONENESS we have in Jesus. You don't want to miss this chapel!

Pastor Ray Chang joins Judson Chapel to talk elephants, Ephesians 4, and the kind of unity that does not devolve into uniformity.

We talk MLK, hassles, and why the best things are slow and difficult. How can we develop patience? Is it even that necessary?

What's gentleness got to do with it? In this episode of our Uncommon series, Dean Chris Lash talks gentleness. Is gentleness weakness or a strength? What do we do with this unpopular trait? Could it be the key to community?

Pastor Nancy Beach joins Judson Chapel to talk humility and tell stories from her family.

Dean of University Ministries, Chris Lash, talks everything from phlebotomy fraud to the big insecurities that plague us all. Don't miss this installment of the Uncommon series.

Our Fall 2021 series explores the significance of building a community that is for everyone everywhere. Dean Chris Lash kicks everything off with a message about distrust and the state of community in our moment.

Our ancestors survived by thinking in herds and tribes. We've inherited their sensibilities and often default to an "us vs them" mindset but is that the way of Jesus? Dean Chris Lash explores this topic in the third and final episode of our Coddled collection.

As the saying goes, "always trust your feelings"...wait, no, that's not right. In the second episode of our series "Coddled: why untruths bring us comfort" Pastor Cory Shumate opens up about feelings and the role they play in our discipleship to Jesus.

New mini-series! With this episode, we’re starting a new collection where we’ll go on a journey to the oracle of our modern cultural moment and hold it up against the way of Jesus. Let’s contrast our ancient Christian tradition against some of the modern cultural Untruths floating around us. And today's untruth? What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.

For the final episode of the "Out of Context" collection, Dean Chris Lash teaches that strange portion of Exodus 34 where it sounds like God is punishing grandchildren for the mistakes of a previous generation. What's happening here? What does this have to say about our own generational mistakes?

Pastor Courtney Wilson continues our Out Of Context series by addressing the question of whether or not God is angry with His people or if He's an angry person in general. You won't want to miss this chapel that's full of answers.

Pastor Paco Amador brings the next episode of "Out of Context," a collection exploring the Divine in the wilderness.

Pastor Ian Simkins kicks off our new collection "Out of Context" by exploring God's name from Exodus 34. This series is based on the book by John Mark Comer bearing the same name.

NFL linebacker Sam Acho brings a message tailored for the Judson community.

Pastor Dan Dominguez (Hope Culture Church) brings a message of hope and restoration to what was otherwise a brutal year. How can we reflect on our experience in 2020 and emerge with a mindset of growth and resilience? Dan tackles this important question in this chapel.

Pastor Derrick Puckett (Renewal Church, Chicago) continues our Entrenched collection with a new episode about people, politics, and how Jesus treated outsiders.

Join us for Judson's annual Baptist Heritage Chapel by leadership from Alum Branden Benskin. President Crume emphasizes the importance of our Baptist history and how it makes our University distinctive.

Pastor Eugene Cho kicks off our Entrenched series, discussing how we can have conversations about politics and not be presumptious and well... not be jerks.

Life Coach and guest speaker Victoria Greenwald closes our collection "What if I Told You..." by surfacing the issue of fear, vocation, and how we see God involved in the midst of it all.

Dean of University Ministries Chris Lash with the second episode of our WHAT IF I TOLD YOU... this time targeting hustle culture and our need to "push harder," "grind it out," "don't stop until you're done" mentality. Is this the most healthy way to consider work? Could the Lord have something better for our work and vocation?

Author and Co-Pastor of Renewal Church Aubrey Sampson kicks off the first episode of our new collection on work and vocation titled "What if I told you...". She talks calling, work, community, and even digs into some Trinitarian theology. You wont want to miss it! Aubrey asked us to include that the questions at the end of her talk have been adapted from "Garden City" by John Mark Comer.

Longtime Judson friend, author, and MD Lina Abujamra concludes our series in The Lord's Prayer with episode 4 of WHAT NEXT. The biggest thing that holds people back from their next is how we treat others. If we’re holding on to grudges, feuds, or talking behind someone’s back that preoccupies us from moving forward.