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From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Saved
Jesus
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The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor God's favor leads to walking with God.
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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.
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To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.
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The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
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Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.
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I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
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