Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation. — 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
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
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us… — 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
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
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
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
God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable.… — 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
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
Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. — 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
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you… — 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
