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The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
Tullian Tchividjian
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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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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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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
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God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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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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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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The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the midst of hardship. No, the good news is that God is hanging on to you, and in the end, when all is said and done, the power of God will triumph over every pain and loss.
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When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
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If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
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While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
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Christianity is not Jesus is our example. Christianity is Jesus is our substitute.
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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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I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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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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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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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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The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
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