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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
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William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
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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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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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