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Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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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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People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
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Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor God's favor leads to walking with God.
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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
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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 hub of Christianity is not do something for Jesus. The hub of Christianity is Jesus has done everything for you.
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My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
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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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Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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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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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.
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To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.
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