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
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.
realization christ raised
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
christ assurance consequence
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
pain taken vision
The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.
jesus relate feats
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
defeated dominant
The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
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.
spiritual thinking too-much
I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.
self enemy righteousness
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
jesus men needs
Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.
moving persistence christianity
The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.