Tullian Tchividjian
Tullian Tchividjian
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian, born July 13, 1972, is the former senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a former contributing editor to Christianity Today's Leadership Journal. He has written several books about Christianity and current issues...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth13 July 1972
CountryUnited States of America
mistake law people
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
perfection grace pretending
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
grace want honest
Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
christian jesus book
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
validation miserable source
I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
acceptance people done
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 acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.
broken people grace
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
doe needs neighbor
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
christian missing who-we-are
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
grace flow brokenness
Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
perfection news demand
There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
suffering culture dishonesty
...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.
stress everyday judgment
The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
suffering answers needs
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.