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Today, and forever, remember that your peace is not dependent on anything but the one-way, never-ending love of Jesus.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.
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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
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When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
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The great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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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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Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.
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You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
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Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
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Jesus has done everything for you.
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We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.
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The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
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My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
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Into the darkness of those admissions comes the fire of new truth: though I am not good enough, Christ was good enough for me.
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When we succumb to temptation, we are failing to believe in that moment that everything we need, in Christ we already have.
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The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
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He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.
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Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
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Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
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We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
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Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
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Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
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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 always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."
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The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.
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The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
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God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.
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Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
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God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
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Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.
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The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
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What I need and long for most has come from outside of me in the person of Jesus.
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The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.
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The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
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God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you.
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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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Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
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Everything is not all right. It's not helpful, but insulting, to say that it is. What we can hope for is that it will be all right one day.
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To progress is always to begin again.
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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
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The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.
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God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.
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Grace could not have done it's curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
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If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.
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Because Jesus was someone, you're free to be no one.
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We find it is when we feel no one could possibly love us that we are most eager for a God who says, I came to love the unlovable.
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The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
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The gospel doesn't just free you from what other people think about you, it frees you from what you think about yourself.
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The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
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The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive.
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The fact is, real life is long on law and short on grace - the
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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In the world's economy, life precedes death. In God's economy, death precedes life - the cross always precedes the crown.
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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
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Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
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Jesus is not glorified by our "doing" things for Him. He is glorified by our resting in and receiving what He's done for us.
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Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.
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When the condemning weight of the law is removed, people don't react with wild sin, as we might expect; they relax in their new freedom.
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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
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The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)
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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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The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
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Christianity is the only faith system where God both makes the demands and meets them.
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What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
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Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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Living for anything else besides God leads to death, not freedom.
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A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
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Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place
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God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway.
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The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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God's demand: 'be righteous'; God's diagnosis: 'no one is righteous'; God's deliverance: 'Jesus is our righteousness.
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A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.
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God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!
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