When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.
Tullian TchividjianThe truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
Tullian TchividjianThe 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 TchividjianSanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
Tullian TchividjianChristianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because theyโre walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.
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