If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
Tullian TchividjianThe grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
Tullian TchividjianGod's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
Tullian TchividjianTo focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
Tullian TchividjianThe world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
Tullian TchividjianIf you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
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