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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Wild
Thickly
Everything
Inside
Disorderly
Feels
Grace
Unsettling
Dangerous
Risky
Control
Upside
Turns
Counter
Sense
Intuitive
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Unfair
Wrestles

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