We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
– Matt Chandler
Related Quotes:
- Jesus didn’t die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways! – Alisa Hope Wagner
- It’s so much more than a child’s story. – Matt Chandler on LIFE Today. – Matt Chandler
- Epic fails are just dramatic pauses to build up intensity of epic awesomeness emerging. – Janna Cachola
- The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
- …things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details. – Lesley Kagen
- You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones. – Diana Gabaldon
- 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. – Matt Chandler
- ?????c Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don’t even have an idea where women’s imaginations can reach..! – Himmilicious
- If women had power what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can? – Ursula K Le Guin
- To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Wouldn’t it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack? – John Eldredge
- When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women. – Sally Kempton
- It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted. – Matt Chandler
- There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning. – Matt Chandler
- Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in. – Matt Chandler
- Whenever relationships can’t be restored, it’s because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God. – Matt Chandler
- A bad song you can’t forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song. – Matt Chandler
- Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis. – Matt Chandler
- You are being discipled by something. – Matt Chandler
- Sin is the native language in every ZIP code. – Matt Chandler
- Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens. – Matt Chandler
- Church is not meant to be fun. It’s meant to be formative. – Matt Chandler
- Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back? – Matt Chandler
- Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted. – Matt Chandler
- As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up. – Matt Chandler
- We become what we behold. – Matt Chandler
- 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. – Matt Chandler
- This wasn’t a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God. – Matt Chandler
- God doesn’t NEED raw material. He MAKES material. – Matt Chandler
- God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful. – Matt Chandler
- When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission. – Matt Chandler
- If you know EVERYONE, you don’t know ANYONE. – Matt Chandler
- Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado – Matt Chandler
- It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed. – Matt Chandler
- Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion. – Matt Chandler
- I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome. – Matt Chandler
- My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there. – Matt Chandler
- The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine – Matt Chandler
- The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively – Matt Chandler
- One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in. – Matt Chandler