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The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
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God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.
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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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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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It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
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Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
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I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.
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God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.
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The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the midst of hardship. No, the good news is that God is hanging on to you, and in the end, when all is said and done, the power of God will triumph over every pain and loss.
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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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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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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
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Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.
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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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