October 27, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. at the Rogers Spiritual Life Center on the ETBU Campus
Special Guests
Time magazine heralded Chris Tomlin as the “most often sung artist in the world” as his music has inspired and uplifted an entire generation of believers.
Along the way, Chris has scored 21 number-one singles, 31 top-ten hits (more than any other Christian artist), and spent a total of 158 weeks at number-one during his career. He’s sold more than 12 million albums with over 8 billion career global streams, won a Grammy, three Billboard Music Awards, 30 Dove Awards (most recent win for Song of The Year for “Holy Forever”), became a two-time BMI Songwriter of the Year honoree and an ASCAP Songwriter of the Year.
Chris is the first Christian artist to reach the billion streams threshold on Pandora and was presented with their BILLIONAIRE award. As one of the most successful Christian touring artists today, Chris has sold out venues everywhere including New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, and more. In early 2019, Chris and his wife Lauren founded For Others - an organization that exists to raise awareness and empower best in class organizations to help end the child welfare crisis here in the United States. For more information visit www.christomlin.com or follow Chris on X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
In a culture that touts tolerance but cancels for anything less than conformity, New York Times bestselling author of Not My Circus Mark Batterson shows us how to rise above the shaming and blaming with holy courage, spiritual discernment, and amazing grace.
The world has changed faster in the last twenty years than in the previous two hundred. Social media, AI, and endless outrage have reshaped how we relate to one another. The cultural pressure is unmistakable: conform or be shamed.
The call to nonconformity is choosing faith over fear, truth over trends, and compassion over cancelling. It’s rejecting popular opinion, peer pressure, and political correctness when those are at odds with will of God. The fear of man is epidemic, but there is a cure—the fear of God that sets us free from every other fear.
Exhausted by a culture that demands we fight every battle and weigh in on every issue? Not My Circus is Mark Batterson’s rallying cry against the status quo. Drawing on Romans 12:2—”Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed”—Mark reveals how to resist cultural pressure without retreating from cultural engagement.
