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Tullian Tchividjian
Tullian Tchividjian
American Clergyman
Born: Jul 13, 1972
Bible Christ God Grace Life Suffering
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Thomas S. Monson
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. Tullian Tchividjian
Life Depression Fear Stress Everyday Life Fears Judgment Beneath Everyday Up Creates Measuring Deepest
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. Tullian Tchividjian
Good News Failure People Better Bad People Good News Good People Believe Christianity Bad About Getting Getting Better Anything Coping
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. Tullian Tchividjian
Life Alone You Courage Sacrifice Live Valor Liberates Scandalous Unbounded Uncommon Generosity Gospel
The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom. Tullian Tchividjian
Life Faith Good News Freedom Suffering Honesty Desperation Good News My Life Ourselves Purpose End Place Which Us Certainly Served Brings
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. Tullian Tchividjian
Bible Hero Say Mad Some Abraham David Noah Moses Sure Understand Ultimate Get Etc Paul Fully Why Ever Jesus Christians
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. Tullian Tchividjian
Strength Victory Christ Anchored Firmly Performance Identity His Accomplishment Your Yours
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. Tullian Tchividjian
God Judge Christ Free Judgment Others Our Once Guilty Ourselves Could He Judged Judgement Gospel Came Place Against Us Deep Satisfy Jesus
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. Tullian Tchividjian
Failure Behavior Every Birth Our Bad Moral Bad Behavior Unbelief Gives Fact Force Root
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. Tullian Tchividjian
Thankful God Grace Our Thankfully While Far Farther
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness. Tullian Tchividjian
Love God Grace Righteousness Glorious Assurance Our Anchored Exchange Sin His Expressed
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word. Tullian Tchividjian
God Law Word First Final Final Word Gospel
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. Tullian Tchividjian
Truth Truth Is Care Beneath Relationships Our Would Admit More Narratives Than Endeavors
God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends. Tullian Tchividjian
God Too Much Job Hell Too Our Misery Leave His Trying Unhappiness Loves Us Much Lives Slavish
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification. Tullian Tchividjian
Work God Bible Fruit Christ Our Distinguished Gifts Must Both Within Sanctification While Justification Them Us Root Separate Union Let Us
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Tullian Tchividjian
People Our Churches Complex Religious Hurting Environment Cheerfulness Answers Questions Pat Produces Required Painful Riddle Many Lives Suffocating
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us. Tullian Tchividjian
God Relate Our Feats Gospel Us Based Jesus
When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself. Tullian Tchividjian
God Time World Language Judgment Down Everyone Right Time Reconcile He Spoke Sinful Himself Came Same Just Breaking Again Apart Right
We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness. Tullian Tchividjian
Life Faith Bible Victory Our About Triumph Read Were Godliness Improvement Often Holiness Us Fundamentally
Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us. Tullian Tchividjian
Me Important Wrong Than Get Infinitely Done Us Less Jesus
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace. Tullian Tchividjian
God Relationship Grace Our Tend Observation Instead Performance Most His Us Base Christendom
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done. Tullian Tchividjian
Love God Christ Our Neighbor Instead Idea Imply Perpetuate Done Dependent Us Works
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. Tullian Tchividjian
God Good Righteousness Active Aim Our Neighbor Tells Horizontal Direction Good Works Does Passive Vertical Us Works Need
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. Tullian Tchividjian
Bible Struggle Christ Claims Never Had Gospel Intellectual
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. Tullian Tchividjian
God Me Degree College Thrive Saved Gave Bachelor Philosophy He Study Learn Read Got Reformed Seminary Then Theological Orlando Thirst
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out. Tullian Tchividjian
Grace Dangerous Control Unfair Sense Wild Our Everything Out Inside-Out Risky Unsettling Feels Makes Hands Us Turns Disorderly
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. Tullian Tchividjian
Happiness Beautiful Experience World Liberty Will Become Ways Security Thousand Tells More Smaller Powerful Freer Gospel Opposite Just Different Bigger Us Richer Grow Different Ways
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