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
morality produce immorality
Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.
jesus strong weak
Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.
self grace slavery
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 slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
jesus minus plus
Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.
grace may easier
The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
hands grace down-and
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
self sometimes weak
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."
school way lips
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.
jesus blood effort
I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
emphasis redeemed redeemer
The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
christian people church
When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
jesus acceptance self
I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.
letting-go book exercise
I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.
entitlement legalism complainers
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.