Many people argue that a church pastor should not be friends with his fellow leaders on staff. This is largely because of the risk of being betrayed, as well as the challenge of ensuring your friends are working hard for the church. Chandler disagrees in this final segment of our four-part interview, at least for himself. We also then finished by speaking about his current illness. More video from Chandler is coming (video of his sessions at Jubilee). Watch on... Read more
Chandler’s story of how he became a preacher is shared in this part of our interview. He was working as a janitor and got asked to speak. Someone then offered him a church job, and it was only later on anyone asked him how he felt called to lead. Watch and be inspired as you consider what it is that God has for you to do. Watch on Vimeo Read more
This is the second of a four-part interview with Matt Chandler. At Together For the Gospel, Chandler began his talk by claiming to be a reformed charismatic. After Grudem’s recent interview on this subject at New Word Alive, I was eager to ask Matt just what he meant by this, as there is a broad spectrum of people who would describe themselves as charismatic. His response including the memorable phrase, “I have never read anything in the Scripture where the... Read more
This is the first part of an interview with Matt Chandler filmed here in London. I commend it to you, and in this first session we speak a lot about the Prayer and Fasting event he attending with Newfrontiers and his own sense of the importance of prayer. Here is a quote to whet your appetite: “Its my understanding from Scripture and experience that I am a very flawed person, redeemed by God, and that connection with pushing into the... Read more
The observant of you will have noticed that the site has sped up considerably over the last few days. This is because of a move to the wonderful VPS.net. Cloud hosting is the way of the future. A single hardware failure (like a hard disk) now cannot bring my site down. And I have better responsiveness than we were getting on a dedicated server which we were sharing with a few other sites. WordPress is further sped up by using... Read more
Following New Word Alive, I posted a list of bloggers who were there. I thought today I would highlight two blogs written by women, as Christian blogging especially is still something of a male domain. This surprises me a little as these days it is not a geeky activity, and since so many women are great communicators I would have expected there to be more. The first female blog I want to recommend, is new since New Word Alive. It... Read more
I have to say, first of all, that it was a genuine pleasure to read. Simple without being simplistic, it follows a line of thought through the importance of the resurrection, the truth of the resurrection, the effect it has on us, the need for revival in our churches and in prayer, and finally the second coming- the resurrection of our bodies at the end of all things. Read more at Purposeful Purity: Raised With Christ. Read more
As I have now finished sharing the video from my interviews with Wayne, I thought it would be appropriate to share the following video which was shown at New Word Alive while he was there. And to think Dave Bish was responsible for these people! Read more
This video might surprise some of my readers. Wayne is well known as a reformed theologian. Arguably he and Piper have between them, with some help from Keller and Carson, led to this resurgence of “Young Restless and Reformed” that so many people talk about. So when a man like that argues that God has not stopped speaking since completing the Bible, it is worth listening to what he has to say. Wayne is theologically charismatic (believing that the Gifts... Read more
Matt preached to 800 church leaders here in the UK after they had spent the day praying, worshipping and fasting. If you will be at 300 you may want to check this out before you come: Watch P&F May’10: Matt Chandler on vimeo Read more
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