I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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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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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 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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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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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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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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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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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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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