Error
The Bible is clear from the beginning that God intends for His people to experience life abundantly. So why are things such a mess–even for Christians?
In this 12-session Bible study, Matt Chandler gets to the root of brokenness and our destructive patterns of behavior. With relentless grace, Matt unpacks true repentance and the doctrines of justification, adoption, and sanctification with remarkably practical application. It's time to start living like we believe in the ongoing power of redemption.
Author and pastor Matt Chandler explains how sin entered God’s perfect creation and introduced chaos. As a result, we often seek to fix things by running to ourselves, others, the world, and religi...
Because of the fall, people have a basic heart problem that expresses itself in sin. Human efforts at dealing with symptoms can never heal the root issue. Author and pastor Matt Chandler shows how ...
Author and pastor Matt Chandler states that the fruit of faith is repentance. He describes worldly grief as a destructive response to sin, leading to death. In contrast, godly grief leads to repent...
When we embrace salvation in Jesus Christ, God bangs the gavel and declares us innocent. Author and pastor Matt Chandler points out that the moment we’re justified, we’re also adopted. We don’t jus...
Sanctification requires grace-driven effort, author and pastor Matt Chandler teaches. To grow in holiness, we pursue the Lord by setting our minds on things above, getting our minds off things belo...
Author and pastor Matt Chandler explores the ways guilt and shame interact in our lives. When we accept that justification takes care of our guilt and adoption takes care of our shame, we’re free t...
When sin entered the world, all that was peace and prosperity became death and decay, fear and anxiety. Author and pastor Matt Chandler emphasizes that when we’re reconciled with God, we get God Hi...
Author and pastor Matt Chandler explains that when we were dead in our sins, we were objects of God’s wrath. Now that we’ve been made alive in Christ, the roots of our sin are constantly being pull...
The love of God, made manifest for us in Christ, motivates us in how to live our lives. Highlighting the need to seek reconciliation in our relationships, author and pastor Matt Chandler offers gui...
Author and pastor Matt Chandler warns that bitterness grows in our hearts when we can no longer absorb or overlook an offense. But bitterness is uprooted when we take steps toward reconciliation. T...
Meaningful life is found in being connected to the Son of God. Author and pastor Matt Chandler emphasizes that when we walk into sin, we’re believing the promise that sin offers. Unlike the promise...
Author and pastor Matt Chandler declares that the light of the gospel is the only source of true hope. Freedom from darkness comes to those who know they’ve rebelled against God, are heartbroken in...