Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANI actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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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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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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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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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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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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Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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God’s grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I’ll do that for you. Or if you don’t do this for me, I won’t do that for you. And God’s grace works in a completely different direction.
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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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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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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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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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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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