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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
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God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.
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Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
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When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.
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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place
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Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.
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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
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I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
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The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.
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We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.
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You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.
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I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
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Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
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Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the God is sovereign card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.
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When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
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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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