7 Miles

Sermon jam from Matt Chandler that touches on what Ryan Kelly spoke on this past Easter Sunday regarding the reality of the resurrection.

Enjoy.


Props: Z

Update #7 From Matt Chandler

Via: The Village Church Pastor's Blog

Matt Chandler Updates

Here are the weekly updates from Matt Chandler for weeks 4-6.







For more information visit The Village Church Pastor's Blog.

Matt Chandler Update #3

Continue to pray for Pastor Matt as some of the affects of the chemo are being felt.

Updates From Matt Chandler

Below are a couple updates from last week and this week from pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church in Texas. Matt suffered a seizure on Thanksgiving day, after tests the doctors found a large tumor in Matt's brain. He had surgery and the tumor turned out to be cancer, he is currently going through radiation and chemotherapy.

Through it all his outlook and exhortation to keep our eyes on Christ has been amazing and encouraging.

Cancer is a vicious thing, and something that has deeply affected me and my family.

Know this as you read, Jesus has defeated death, and sin and cancer may take root here and now in our lives, but for those who trust we know a day is coming when those things are no more. So we battle cancer with chemo and medicines, but our hope is in a future time, when Christ fully reigns, and sin, cancer and death are no more.

All because Jesus came down, God in Flesh, came and died for us, came and died on the cross, a horrific death that was punishment for our sins, our rebellion. Then 3 days later He rose from the dead, a real rising, in a resurrected body, a real physical body, to show that He was who He said He was and thus can do what He promised He would do.

So we wait in hope and expectation for the day cancer is no more, and death is dead!

Matt Chandler on The Gap of Eternity

Matt Chandler, Pastor of The Village Church in Dallas, talks about our yearning and falling short of the eternal. Sports, money and fame all fall short and leave us thinking, "there's gotta be more".

For full message from Resurgence's Text and Context conference, click here.

Should You Talk About The Gospel In Every Sermon?

From John Piper and Matt Chandler:

Preaching Irrelevant, Silly Myths

Matt Chandler lead pastor at The Village Church speaking at Desiring God's Pastor's Conference this past year.

Piper Interviews Chandler

From Desiring God, John Piper does a sit down 4 part interview with Matt Chandler.

After our pastors conference in February, John Piper sat down with Matt Chandler for a conversation that is now available in 4 parts.

• Part 1 - Chandler tells his story up to about 20 years old.
• Part 2 - More on Chandler's story, through becoming a pastor.
• Part 3 - Chandler's thoughts on being a pastor, a Calvinist, and a Complementarian.
• Part 4 - Chandler and Piper finish up with some advice for pastor.

Jesus Wants The Rose!!

Come from a jacked up home? Do you feel like sin has beaten the crap out of you? Do you feel broken inside? HEAR MATT CHANDLER, SOAK IN THIS VIDEO AND TRUTH!!!


Props: Z and Desiring God

Matt Chandler: A Missional Rebuke and Plea

If this quote from Matt Chandler's Easter Sermon does not encourage and devastate you all at once, read it again...

"Ladies how many bible studies are we going to do, I am just saying, can we maybe run some of the plays instead of just studying them? Men, how many bible studies we gonna do, how much you going to study before you start to play? I mean that’s what makes the thing so stupid down here. Everybody can talk it, nobody wants to engage anybody with it. Or at least very few of us do. Why? Well cause I have a lust issue. Well OK, submit to Christ, get in recovery, and live on mission, it will reveal all that stuff, it will be horrible, God will just rip it out of you and replace it with His grace and mercy, it will be awesome in the end. I mean if you’re waiting till you’re perfect to live life on mission you’re going to die without much mission. It’s coming! Do you get this? Do you get that 2000 years ago, in fact farther back than than He told Abram, “This is how it’s going down.” and it has stayed true to the line right up till now where a massive portion of Africa has become believers, a massive portion of China has become believers, South America blowing up with the gospel. The gospel is penetrating the world, do you know how this ends? With you and me in front of Him with the Kingdom of God, new heaven, new earth coming down, no more injustice, no more pain, no more sorrow, God’s redeemed, God’s elect, God’s Kingdom, Kingdom of God, established! Now do you think anybody is going to give a trash how much money you have right now? How much comfort you have right now? Who’s cool and who’s not? Who drove what and who didn’t? Who was well liked in the neighborhood and who wasn’t? You think ANY of that is going to matter? No one will care! But a lot of people will be embarrassed."

Matt is the lead pastor of The Village Church in Texas.

Click Here to Download the entire sermon, it is well worth your time!