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The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.

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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 deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
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Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
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The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
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Jesus has done everything for you.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
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If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
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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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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
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I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
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The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
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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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When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, Sin and resistance
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You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
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Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.
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Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.
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I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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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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Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.
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