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Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.
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The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of How and Why to the freedom of Who?
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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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The law is God's first word the gospel is God's final word.
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Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your self-sufficiency.
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Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
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Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way.
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My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
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The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
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The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
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God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.
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