You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God. — 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
Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief. — 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
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. — 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
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval,… — 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
What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful… — 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 to be saved. — 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 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