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
moving church needs
Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.
pain reality suffering
The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.
jesus
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
together looks break
If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.
frustration tragedy payback
Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.
giving-up hard-work people
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; rather, it produces immorality.
pain suffering weakness
There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.
biblical perfect weight
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
jesus example christianity
Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."
self appreciate understanding
When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
pain odds feelings
You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.
long faces faults
As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
sorry feels superiors
It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
grace needs problem
Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.