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Explanations are a substitute for trust.
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 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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The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
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Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
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The law demands that we do it all the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.
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Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
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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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People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
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Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.
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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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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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Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.
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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.
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
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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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Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.
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