Tullian Tchividjian
Tullian Tchividjian
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian, born July 13, 1972, is the former senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a former contributing editor to Christianity Today's Leadership Journal. He has written several books about Christianity and current issues...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth13 July 1972
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people doe
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
friday running jesus
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
jesus thinking littles
I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
christian jesus book
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
pain loss cost
The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the midst of hardship. No, the good news is that God is hanging on to you, and in the end, when all is said and done, the power of God will triumph over every pain and loss.
grace our-relationship relationship-with-god
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
spiritual thinking too-much
I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.
self enemy righteousness
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
thinking people think-of-me
The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
jesus acceptance world-religions
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.
men frustrated should
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
suffering answers needs
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
thinking news offensive
The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.
grace want honest
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.