Matt Chandler

The news has been out for quite some time now that Matt Chandler is battling brain cancer. It is an aggressive tumor, and he is doing everything technology and science allows for at this point to treat it-- and praying to his Sovereign God in the midst of each day. My friend Angela shared this article with me that the AP wrote about him. http://ow.ly/12jQm Please pray for this spiritual giant and for his family!

Day by day life seems more fragile to me and God seems, paradoxically, bigger and more sovereign through the weakness of it all. How could we ever live in this world without believing that God is very much alive and moving in the midst of this broken world? "In Him we live and move and have our being." I was really touched by that article- moved to tears to see him balancing the picture of God's immoveable faithfulness to him and yet also longing to see his children grow up and to grow old with his wife. To think of all that Jesus felt and experienced in the garden when He asked, "Take this cup from me; yet not My will but Yours be done." The sanctified and holy and the flesh co-existing.

I am thankful for Matt's influence on my life through his talks at retreats in my youth. He is one of those preachers who doesn't mince words, and I think that youth need to hear that. You need to hear as a teenager that God's Word is to be taken seriously and that following Christ cannot be a halfway deal. He burned that truth into me. It sounds like he continues to teach that same message at Village Church today.