God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.
Tullian TchividjianGrace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
Tullian TchividjianPassive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
Tullian TchividjianI was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.
Tullian TchividjianWhen 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.
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