When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance" — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.” — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute." — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The gospel doesn’t make bad people good; it makes dead people alive. That’s the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“By looking at the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us, we totally miss the Point–like the two on the road… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster. Musician Rich Mullins once wrote, “I have… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Jesus came to show us that the gospel explains success in terms of giving, not taking; self-sacrifice, not self-protection; going to the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The gospel doesn’t just free you from what other people think about you, it frees you from what you think about yourself.” — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us. — 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
