Matt Chandler from the Village Church is currently on sabbatical, but I need to let you know about some recent good sermons. He’s got to about chapter 9 of a big series on Luke (20 sermons so far), it’s awesome stuff!

Back in May, Matt finished a 5-part topical series on the church core-values which is well worth a listen to:

What is Truth?

What is Christian Spirituality? -  really good, what true Spirit-filled churches should be like!

What is Community?

What is Foot-Washing?

What is Missional Living?

These sermons and others will go into my good sermons database page - it’s just a bit of fun for me but hopefully as I keep updating it, it will be a great resource to find good sermons in one place!

Also, Matt Chandler’s church, The Village are doing a building project and have launched a new website for that including some video testimonies from some members - here’s an example…

Here’s what I’ve been waiting for… the Q&A sessions from The Resurgence ‘Text and Context’ conference are now online. There’s two hour sessions, one with Matt Chandler and John Piper, and the other just with Mark Driscoll, well worth listening to.

I was a bit disappointed they didn’t put on something similar with Carson and Piper at New Word Alive, but alas…

This is one of the pre-Resurgence conference videos - Matt Chandler, Advice for Preachers… Live Preaching, Live the Gospel… burn for the text… possessed by the text…

Since September 2007, Matt Chandler from The Village Church, in Dallas, Texas, has been preaching through Luke’s Gospel, he’s up to around chapter 6. It’s really good stuff, a nice length to listen to and very challenging. Add it to your podcast feed!

Chandler is mates with Driscoll and doing a similar kind of Reformed Missional church, like Mars Hill. But, in a different place, so it’s interesting listening to a similar style/methodology/missiology, but preaching into a different context/culture. Driscoll is dealing with postmodern, liberal, pagan, Seattle-ites. Chandler on the other hand is largely dealing with Fundamentalist Bible-belters and Osteen-Prosperity types, so has lots to say to those who are religious or brought up in Christian tradition.

Starting to think about how to best do this kind of Reformission in the UK… thoughts to follow over the next few months…

Abraham Piper’s blog has this classic bit of audio on from Matt Chandler where he calls Driscoll a jackass and a jerk… in love.

I discovered Chandler a while back through recommendation by Driscoll, he leads a church in Texas called Village Church, I’ve been listening to him the last couple of days on ‘Being a Man’ and ‘Being Salt and Light’, two 3-part sermon series. I’d highly recommend.

Next week is the Resurgence conference, Text and Context - Driscoll, Piper, Mahaney etc. hopefully there’ll be some audio to discuss then… but for now here’s MD on preparing to preach…

What does the scripture say?

What does the scripture mean?

How or why do we resist the word?

How does it apply to our mission - personal and corporate application?