We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith,… — 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
When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin… — 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
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world. — 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
![“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…” quote by Tullian Tchividjian](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb8/tullian-tchividjian-1105_bears_the-good-news-of-the-gospel-for-sufferer_774270.png)
