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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

Tullian Tchividjian

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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Church People Thinking
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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Get Better Need Self
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
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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Enough Good Old Testament Work
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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Compelled Feel Identity
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Christian Effort Year
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
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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Backyards First Tennis
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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Enjoy Friendly Theological
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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Miserable Source Validation
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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Free Happy People Think
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Enough Heart Information
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Favor Favors God Walk
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 Judgment Longing

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