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God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

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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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Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.
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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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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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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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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.
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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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You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality rather, it produces immorality.
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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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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.
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Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
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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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