Family Pictures in California

Matt Chandler Has Brain Cancer

Very sad news came today. Pastor Matt has cancer and we need to keep him in our prayers.

http://fm.thevillagechurch.net/blog/pastors/?p=453

Pastor Matt Chandler is Doing Well

Here is a letter he wrote to everyone prior to his surgery yesterday afternoon.

He is recovery well and the Doctor says he is responding very well.

http://hv.thevillagechurch.net/blog/hvpastor/?p=357

3 Truths That Will Change Your Life!

Here is a great article on the 3 truths that change your life! I have personally benefitted from them and praise God for his goodness to me by sharing His everlasting Word with His people. Enjoy!

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2009/12/03/3-truths-that-change-your-life/

Gotta Love Good Ol' Martin....

“After Lucas, the artist, had taken a wife and the wedding was over, he always desired to be next to his bride. He had a good friend who said to him, ‘Friend, don’t do that. Before a half-year is gone you will have had enough of that. There won’t be a maid in your house whom you won’t prefer to your wife.’ And so it is. We hate the things that are present and we love those that are absent. As Ovid wrote, ‘What we may have [does not please us]; it’s what we may not have that excites our passion.’ This is the weakness of our nature. Then the devil comes and introduces hatred, suspicion, and concupiscence on both sides, and these cause desertion. It’s easy enough to get a wife, but to love her with constancy is difficult. A man who can do this has reason to thank our Lord for it. Accordingly, if a man intends to take a wife, let him be serious about it and pray to God, ‘Dear Lord God, if it be thy divine will that I continue to live without a wife, help me to do so. If not, bestow upon me a good, pious girl with whom I may spend all my life, whom I hold dear, and who loves me.’”

—Martin Luther, Table Talk [WA TR V no. 5524] p. 214.