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If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Stays
Loves
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I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.
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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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When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
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Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours his strength, not yours his performance, not yours his victory, not yours.
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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
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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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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
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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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