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
“most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must… — 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 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
God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Here’s one way to get your idols into focus: simply think about whatever it is in your life that, if you lost… — 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
“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
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 alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. — 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
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to… — 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 deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending. — 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
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 heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification. — 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
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
