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If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.

Tullian Tchividjian

If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.
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Compelled Feel Identity
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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Different Grace Life
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Free God Jesus Someone
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Enough Heart Information
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Favor Favors God Walk
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Broken Grace People

If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.

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