Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANGraciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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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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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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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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In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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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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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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Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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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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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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