Tullian Tchividjian
@TullianT
New Book “Carnage & Grace” available now: http://tinyurl.com/4etem6s4
youtu.be/QT2P9xWz3_g?si… I've gotta say... I've tried watching @TullianT at The Sanctuary and it really rubs against what we're all taught through all of the "Conference Circuit" ministries. It grinds and grades against everything we're told but try listening. Makes total sense👍
If you missed last nights livestream “Assured by Grace, Not Grit: Reflecting on John MacArthur's Gospel of Self-Examination”, you can watch it here: youtu.be/QT2P9xWz3_g?si…
Justification by faith alone frees the Christian from the burden of performing good works for God’s approval—vertical validation—so that good works are now redirected horizontally toward the neighbor, not vertically toward God. "Good works are for the purpose of serving our…
One is false. One is true. “Obedience is the only validation of your salvation. It is the only possible proof that you recognize the lordship of Jesus Christ.” — John MacArthur “For assurance does not come to me from any kind of reflection on myself and on my state. On the…
Tune in tonight! I dare you 😉
It’s not personal…it’s a matter of life and death.
Oh Ozzy… you wild, beautiful soul. You gave misfits like me a soundtrack for our lives. Beneath the madness was a tender heart that understood pain, and sang it loud. Crazy, Iron Man you—thank you for the honesty, the chaos, the comfort. Rest now, brother. Grace has the final…
So many people look at those of us who’ve crashed and burned—who’ve failed publicly, lost everything, and been brought painfully low—and say, “We don’t want to end up like them.” But my friend Byron said something to me months ago, after his own public collapse, that has haunted…
Christianity is not first and foremost about our behavior, our obedience, our performance, our faithfulness, our diligence, or our love for God. It is first and foremost about Jesus. It is about His person, His performance, His faithfulness, His substitutionary work, His…
God doesn’t need your good works—your neighbor does. Because justification is extra nos (outside of us), our standing before God is not improved by our performance. So good works are radically reoriented: they are no longer aimed at earning God’s favor but at serving others…
When it comes to spiritual growth, what I’ve discovered is that the more I focus on my need to get better the worse I actually get—I become neurotic and self-absorbed. Preoccupation with my performance actually hinders my growth because it makes me increasingly self-centered and…
In his seminal work Paul: An Outline of His Theology, Dutch theologian Herman Ridderbos (1909–2007) articulates a subtle but significant shift in the way the gospel has been understood since the time of the Reformers. Following the trajectories set by Calvin and Luther, the focus…
Let me be as clear as I can be: “Examining your fruit” as a way to be assured of your standing with God is a dead end. It leads to one of two places—delusion or despair. Delusion if you think your fruit is enough. Despair if you know it’s not. Because the standard isn’t…
“I’ve always had a problem with the phrase ‘cheap grace.’ As far as I’m concerned, nobody can make God’s grace in Jesus any cheaper than it already is: it’s free.” Robert Capon
It’s God’s job to change people; it’s our job to love them. Period.
Someone recently asked me if I was a Calvinist. That’s a loaded question—and the answer depends entirely on what you mean by Calvinist. I’ve been deeply shaped by the Reformed tradition. Educated in it. Pastored within it for years. I still drink deeply from many of its core…
I often hear people talk about the need for theology and preaching to be “balanced.” And as best as I can tell, what they often mean is that we need to spend the same amount of time talking about everything the Bible talks about. So, for example, since the Bible talks about what…
People often say to me, “Tullian, if you preach this much grace—if you keep telling people they’re totally forgiven, fully accepted, and forever loved no matter what because of what Jesus accomplished on their behalf, they’ll take advantage of it. You’re giving people a license…