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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.

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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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If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.
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When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
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What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.
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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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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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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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