“God’s chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you.” — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong. — 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
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering. — 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
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not… — 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 good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of… — 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
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
I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns… — 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 construct… — 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 frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope… — 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
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
If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you… — 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
“A person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their arms grow back" may be the best description I've ever read… — 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
