Quotes by Matt Chandler

“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. I'm here let'...”

“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. Reve...”

“Ladies, if you’re single there is nothing wrong, sinful or wicked about desiring a husband, nothing. Anyone who would say otherwise is absolutely lying to you. God wired you for it, He built you fo...”

“Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.”

“Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?”

“The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.”

“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.”

“There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning.”

“Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.”

“If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.”

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

“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 eat...”

“It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.”

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

“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 it is be...”

“When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.”

“A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.”

“Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.”

“The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.”

“You are being discipled by something.”