God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain! — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.' — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them.… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Flight from God always leads downward. It culminates not in the vivacious life we imagined but in what amounts only to stagnant… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
“There is but one good,” C. S. Lewis writes in The Great Divorce; “that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
“An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
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… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
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;… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
