I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
Tullian TchividjianTags: love god sin jesus god-s-glory
God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
Tullian TchividjianThe cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
Tullian TchividjianLegalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
Tullian TchividjianTags: grace law legalism god-s-love
The God of the Bible is a holy and righteous God. Which is another way of saying that to relate to Him on His own terms, or to receive His blessing, requires perfection. God articulates this perfection in His Law ("Thou shalt" and "Though shalt not"). The problem is that we are anything but perfect! We are only human, as the saying goes. And the divine standard makes it painfully clear just how significant our limitations are. The person who takes the Law seriously is immediately humbled, if not demolished completely.
Tullian TchividjianTags: original-sin-as-tool-catalyst original-sin-defined
Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.
Tullian TchividjianA person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their arms grow back" may be the best description I've ever read of what it feels like for a depressed person to try to cheer herself up. Yet this description applies to any kind of suffering that resists our attempts to address it.
Tullian TchividjianYour pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
Tullian TchividjianTo focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
Tullian TchividjianTags: narcissism self-centeredness
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
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