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Thank you so much lord!!! .. Our love goes out to the Chandler family and all of the Village Family.. you are not alone!
Galatians 6:2 “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Thank you for keeping those of us in the podcast world updated.
We are blessed to be walking through this with you, being reminded that it is our God who sees and sustains and that the things that we encounter are by his Sovereign will.
We are praying for you and your sweet family.
Many prayers and blessings for you and your family. We are new to the Village Church and are so blessed by hearing about your courageous journey and great faith in the Lord regardless of circumstance or outcome. Thank you for being such a shining example!! Our prayers are for comfort and healing for you and your family.
Thank you for these updates, they are beyond encouraging.
“Beware the Ides of March.” lol. Good thing we aren’t superstitious and we follow Jesus.
Dear Pastor Chandler, I read your story in my local newspaper and I have’nt stopped thinking about it. I decided to email you today, when I typed into your blog today, you were reading from Peter,I had cold chills, my church is Cornerstone Baptist. For some reason? I fill as though I was meant to contact you on this day? If for no other reason, know that I’m praying for you and your family and I fill everything is going to be OK.
God’s graciousness continues to be revealed. His sovereignty and love for you can be seen in alot of ways, but the one that came to mind today is that God bookended your trial with Thanksgiving and Love(Valentine’s day). Now that is a hug from the Lord!
Blessings on your family, thank you for sharing this journey with us!
Matt. thank you for the encouragement you pass on to others. through all the valleys that you have gone through and will continue to go it is amazing how God is working in you and that you continue to think about others but than that is your god given nature. I know several people that have or are going through some kind of cancer and I continue to tell them to check out your blogs.
I am praying for your family and for you and the strength that God continues to give you.
You are truly loved
Praying in Houston
The Carpenter Family
Blessings & Prayers Matt. Trust things continue to progress as well as they seem to have done thus far – the Lord continues to use you mightily as an encouragement to all of us out here in the global online community. God bless, Romayne, Belfast in N. Ireland UK
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As the Basotho tribe in South Africa says: Hamba Khadgle Morena Chandler… Hamba Khadgle..
Translates to something like “God’s speed to you Mr. Chandler (Matt)”. More direct translation is litterly “Walk well”, but as the Sothos will explain it has a far broader meaning.
You, your family and our church are in our prayers.
Hamba Khadgle Matt
Matt,
As the sun was shinning intensely through my window this afternoon, I asked God to heal you, strengthen you and to grant me the privilege of hearing you preach HIS word for Many Years to Come. I prayed for Lauren and the children to be comforted, as only God can comfort. I love you….more than you know
Love, Mary Ellen
Dear Matt,
) Any way, I have been praying diligently for you and your family since Thanksgiving. I check your blog and the McRae’s Caringbridge site before my quiet time each morning. I have never been so impressed to pray for two families as I have for the two of you…two families I have never met. Thank you for sharing your journey with us, and for giving us the very great privilege of praying for you. I am praying that these treatments will do ALL that they are purposed to do…and no more!~ Praying for total and complete healing.
My best friend attends The Village Church, but I first heard about you from a couple of friends here in KY telling me I needed to listen to your pod casts!! When they mentioned “The Village Church”, I thought that sounded so familiar…my friend’s church! (I am a Texas transplant living far from home.
God bless you…your sermons truly minister to me, convict me, challenge me…and I thank you!
Praying for you, Lauren, Audrey, Reid and Norah~
Vicki Blohm
Elizabethtown,KY
It is so awesome to see God’s love beaming from your face, praying rest renewal and detox on you and the destruction of every abnormal cell, never to return! And praise God that you are done with this first course! Thank you Lauren for blessing us Tuesday night, it was so wonderful. Sorry we will miss church this weekend, doing some out of town celebrating ourselves, have a great weekend! We love you’ll so!
we continue to pray for you and your family
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Praise God for lifting you up through this time and for continuing to be present and loving in all that we do and encounter! His love flows through you – we are continuing to pray for you and your family from Wisconsin!
Dear Matt, Heard you on Family Life Fri pm talking on marriage, courtship…Did not know anything of you andyour battle. I will add you and fam to my list of cancer battling fams. Our precious olderst son also a Matthew means Gift of the Lord he had cancer 3xs yet the Lord continued to grow him and his/our faith. We will never be the same. Cancer is not a family one is in by choice yet changes us and still continues to change us. Matthew was my prayer warrior interceding for any and everyone I am in prayer for you and fam lifting you all up We have joined with the Lord in prayer for you all Romans Chapters Chapter 5 vs1-5. We love you Chandler family!!Amen
Thanks for the update. We continue to lift you and your family up in prayer. God Bless.
Thanks Matt…you are a benediction! Loved the additional commentary from Norah!
Peg .. my bride (of 51 years) has had 4 episodes of breast cancer .. she’s clean now .. and I’ve had prostate cancer as well.
I somehow feel that the really blessed folks are those who endure fires like cancer, while staying in the faith. Man, if Jesus is enough for us in times like this, how powerful is THAT in terms of eternal usefulness to God?
AS to feeling prayers, I discovered that one of the biggest effects of the prayers of the saints is what we DON’T feel. That’s what I noticed during my surgery, radiation, and now the hormone treatments. Simply no fear, confusion, or anger. THAT is a most noticeable effect, for me.
God bless you.
I am praising God that you have gotten through this first phase in this journey, and will be praying for a restful, healing time for you and your family-and a FUN birthday celebration, of course! Matt, what you have shared throughout these videos has been a blessing to me, as well as many others, I’m sure. I’m thankful for that, and thankful that you are doing so well, and that I believe that GOD is drawing you and your family closer and closer to HIM throughout all of this……HE IS our ROCK-HE is our strength, our fortress. I will admit, when I went through my journey with a brain tumor at age 15, after the surgery, realizing I had some permanent memory issues (for a month or so, I thought every day was my first day home from the hospital)-but, with much work and God’s healing power, that has improved greatly, and I’m now a successful college student-but, in the midst of that, in those moments when I actually realized how I wasn’t remembering anything-I did doubt GOD-something that is hard to admit…I had a lot of doubts and questions….more or less wondering how GOD who loves me could allow that–how I had lost such an important part of me in losing a part of my brain (or really, the proper functioning of a part of my brain). I struggled with that for a few months in my life….but still immersed myself in HIS Word and I would talk with the priest at the church that I went to at that time (who is amazing and who visited me almost daily when I was in the hospital, and who is and was such a blessing to me)…and I don’t know how, or exactly when it occurred, but GOD somehow, pulled me back to Him and helped me work through all of that, and though it’s a hard thing to admit that I had such doubts and that I was in the midst of falling away from Him in some ways….I know now that my faith has been strengthened, that He had/has me….that I can always rest in Him……that experience has changed me FOREVER….maybe I needed that experience to TRULY have unwavering faith in Jesus, I don’t know. But, I’m so thankful, and have been SO blessed…..when I now look back on it, I know that, if given the opportunity to take what happened to me away (even with the permanent memory effects), I wouldn’t take it away….it was this necessary part of my life to help me realize Jesus’s unfailing love for me, and His steadfast presence in my life,and how EVERYTHING in my life, everything in all of our lives, is for HIS glory—-and you are glorifying Him in a way that I wish I had in the few months following my surgery when I was plagued with doubts and fear and uncertainty–but, I fully realize that now, my journey can still be used to proclaim Him-His love for me, His saving grace, His steadfast love for me that helped me to turn back to Him, and to never ever have doubts again. And now, I can eternally sing praises to HIS name! Just as you are! -Praying for you and your family and for a restful time that allows healing and recovery to occur for all of you!
Go Matt Go! And a huge cheer to your wife and family as well as they walk through this with you man. All the best. Yes, we are praying, all the way from Canada! Can’t wait until we walk over you in Hockey at the games. My 5 yr old son knows a verse… It goes something like this, “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14. And to that I say – Press on Chandler!
I am a Dallas Theological Seminary trained Christian and a professional nuclear physicist working for the Federal government.
I had surgery on my left hemisphere on Jan. 19, 2010 to decompress and diagnose a large mass. The result was a level 4 Glioblastoma multiforme. will be going through the standard radiation and chemo for this type of tumor.
I’m not sure of the tumor you have, but it sounds the same as mine. I just want you to know that I know what you are feeling and the struggle you are having with determined God’s will in this.
I feel that God has stretched me over a cross connecting this world with the next and I don’t know how long I am going to be on this cross nor what His purpose is. Job 17:1,11
Thanks so much for your Christian testimony.
My children attend your church. I attend FBC Wylie (Kris Segrest).
Kent
Matt,
I live in Charlotte, NC but having been listening to you via podcast for about 3 years now. My 27 year old younger sister, Angelica, was diagnosed with a malignant glioblastoma back in July. She had it removed and then went through 6 weeks of chemo/radiation. Her scans have come back clear and she is now in her 4th of 6 months of chemo. It looks like you two are following a very similar course of treatment. Over the past few years I’ve shared some podcasts of your sermons with her. We are both big fans of yours. I’ve also shared your recent video blogs with her and she has found them to be very encouraging. Please know that we are praying for you as you continue the work of the Kingdom. God will be glorified in both your situation and hers.
In His name,
Paul Naso
She has mentioned that she’d love to talk to you sometime. Please let me know if this is possible.
Matt,
You were always so personal, positive, and motivating in school and it is no wonder and no surprise that you are so well liked, loved, and admired. You obviously were truly picked early on by God to do his work and you have touched so many in such a short time.
I am praying every day for you and looking forward to driving from little ole Texas City to the Bid G – Dallas to experience one of your sermons! May God Bless you and your family always. I am blessed to know you.
April Matthew Marburger (TC Class of 93′!)
God bless you, Matt. Hang in there. God has a purpose and plan for you. We are praying for you here in Georgia. God hears our prayers and we are praying for your complete healing!
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matt,
as surreal as this experience may feel for you and yours now, i pray you continue to find some strength in the knowledge that you are not alone in this. both my parents fought hard and well in their own battles with cancer. my father has lived to tell his tale (twice over now); my mother’s now home with Jesus. i know she’d tell you it’s worth it, the fight is definitely worth it.
also, p.s. i was reading through 1 peter 1-3 this morning, trying to catch up on my home group’s homework, and left my quiet time pondering the meaning of “the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” only to later stumble upon this vlog where you express your thoughts and knowledge over the exact scripture, thus clearing up my 1 peter haze. i love God’s orchestrated moments such as this. thought i’d share it with you.
love you chandlers, more than you know.
-lindsey s. (village church covenant member)
I’m amazed at how the body of Christ works..I’m amazed at how God can give us such hearts for one another, not even knowing each other. Truly I have seen Him do that in my heart for your family and other families out there. I look forward to rejoicing in what He does in your lives as well. I praise God for your family and for being a model of living your faith during all seasons. Praying the Lord gives you a blessed time as a fam and continues to sustain, strengthen, and encourage each one of you!
In Christ, Kim
Philippians 1: 2-13
“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine, making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers with me of grace. For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. But I want you to know, brethren , that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ”
Dear Matt and Lauren Chandler,
You and your sweet family are in our prayers, even as far as Italy. We listen with eagerness to the sermons at the Village church (from Bologna Italy) and we wait and pray as each update arrives.
With love
Davide and Julia Bolognesi
40125, Bologna
ITALY