Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANThe heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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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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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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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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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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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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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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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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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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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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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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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