My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I’m going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn’t…that’s the thing: I’ve read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says....

We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don’t spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform...

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel “underappreciated”?

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much...

This wasn’t a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.

I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shepherd people, call them to repentance and let Matthew 18:12­–14 play...

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post....

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you’ll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn’t force the issue; he just has to reveal himself...

The Kingdom of God wasn’t born on the Fourth of July.

More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of...

Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular, she may miss the supernatural. If a person enters a gathering to be...

It’s so much more than a child’s story. – Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.

God doesn’t NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

Choosing one thing over another doesn’t necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don’t want to...

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Whenever relationships can’t be restored, it’s because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.

The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding...

This passage, by the way, doesn’t just give us the comparative negative of hell, but it translates well into a theology of suffering. With these words of Jesus in mind, I can now know that...

A schoolmate of Matt Chandler’s with the locker next to his: “I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that?

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.