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.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANOur 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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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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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 always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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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 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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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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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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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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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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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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