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.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANGrace 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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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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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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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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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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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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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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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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.
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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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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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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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