Matt Chandler

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 better never to hold my children, it is better never to run my fingers through my wife's hair, it is better not to be able to brush my own teeth, it is better never to be able to drive a car, it is better to be paralyzed and never feel anything from the neck down, and it is better to have stage III anaplastic oligondendroglioma than to find myself outside the kingdom of God.It is better never to see the sunset or the sunrise, never see the stars in the sky, never to see my daughter in her little dress-up clothes, never to see my son throw a ball - it is better never to have seen those things than to have seen those things and yet end up outside the kingdom of God. How horrible hell must be.

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

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

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 spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 longer.

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's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.

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

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

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.

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 or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.

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

Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

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