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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

Tullian Tchividjian

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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Miserable Source Validation
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Free God Jesus Someone
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Enough Heart Information
Grace doesn’t lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
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Grace Kindness Remedy
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Broken Grace People
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
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Backyards First Tennis
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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Enjoy Friendly Theological
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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Grace Judgment Longing
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
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Church People Thinking
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Christian Effort Year
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
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Emotion Frustrat Men People
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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Free Happy People Think

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