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My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
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Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.
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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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We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
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In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
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There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.
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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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My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way. So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
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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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In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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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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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
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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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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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While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
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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 way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
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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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Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the stiff upper lip school of thought.
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