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
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of… — 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
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
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Daily Christian living, in other words, is daily Christian dying: dying to our trivial comforts, soul-shrinking conveniences, arrogant preferences, and self-centered entitlements,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This… — 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
I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible… — 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
“The God of the Bible is a holy and righteous God. Which is another way of saying that to relate to Him… — 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
If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good… — 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
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as… — 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
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life… — 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
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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 in order… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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 Image
