I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. Tullian Tchividjian biblechristclaim Change image and share on social
The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom. Tullian Tchividjian bringdesperationend share on social
God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations. Tullian Tchividjian abilitybigexplanation Change image and share on social
Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion. Tullian Tchividjian attachboxcruel share on social
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace. Tullian Tchividjian conditiondifficultfind Change image and share on social
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours. Tullian Tchividjian abstractionagentbottomless share on social
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word. Tullian Tchividjian finalgodgospel Change image and share on social
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust. Tullian Tchividjian confusionexplanationgrave Change image and share on social
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient. Tullian Tchividjian christchristiandefine Change image and share on social
I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do. Tullian Tchividjian afraiddesperatelygod Change image and share on social
