Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANEven political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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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 has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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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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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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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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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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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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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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