Matt Chandler

Private worship excites us for public worship.

Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.

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 as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No man goes back to saltine crackers when he's had fillet mignon.

When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.

God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.

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

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

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

A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

The conviction that's underneath a lot of other statements is, "I don't trust Gjod.

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

Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

We become what we behold.

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.

As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.

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 wowed with something impressive, with a style that fits him just right, with an order of service and song selection designed just the right way, that person may miss the supernatural presence of God. Worship is supernatural whenever people come hungry to respond, react, and receive from God for who He is and what He has done. A church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from the Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise-the only proper response to the God who saves us.

It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.