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
law firsts finals
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
law failing loses
When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
law grace way
The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
crush law grace
Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
law christ lifestyle
The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.
mistake law people
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
self views law
Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
jesus law demand
The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.
lawyer legalism gods-will
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
bible characters happens impulse protect result strange
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.
both fruit gifts god root separate union within work
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.
direction god good lives moves news plan remind suffering
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
bigger free god strength wants
God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.
god loves misery slavish trying
God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.