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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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People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
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The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.
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Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.
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The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
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A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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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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The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
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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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We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
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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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The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.
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Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
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God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.
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God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.
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Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the God is sovereign card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!
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