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When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

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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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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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The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality rather, it produces immorality.
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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
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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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Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
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Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.
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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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The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.
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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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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.
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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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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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Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor God's favor leads to walking with God.
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