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The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty 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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The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
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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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The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
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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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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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Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
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When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.
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Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
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You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.
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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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Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
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When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
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If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
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What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
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