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Jesus plus nothing equals everything everything minus Jesus equals nothing.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Everything
Nothing
Minus
Equals
Plus
Jesus

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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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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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Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.
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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
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I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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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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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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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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I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
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The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.
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Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
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Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
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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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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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A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
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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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