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Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.
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The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
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My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way. So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
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Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.
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Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
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