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
validation miserable source
I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
believe thinking people
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.
running real people
If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.
depth sin made
If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
pain taken vision
The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.
thinking self pharisees
Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.
acceptance grace given
Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
jesus remember worst
Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
perfection grace pretending
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
people get-better news
Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
bad-day thinking suffering
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or that others construct for you. Rather, He is interested in you, the you who suffers, the you who inflicts suffering on others, the you who hides, the you who has bad days (and good ones). And He meets you where you are.
running grace bottom
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
grace longing judgment
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
pain loss grieving
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.