Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again and say that they were dead but now have come to life. We have become [...]
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Can You Blame Them?
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Born-Again, Christians, Church, Holy Spirit on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is Real Freedom
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Freedom, Living for God on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The difference between living for God and living for anything else is that when we live for anything else we do so to gain acceptance, but when we live for God we do so because we are already accepted. Real freedom (the freedom that only the gospel grants) is living for something because we already [...]
Its A Misguided Debate
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Christians, Gospel, Non-Christians, Sinners, Worship on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Churches for years have struggled over whether their worship services ought to be geared toward Christians (to encourage and strengthen them) or non-Christians (to appeal to and win them). But this debate and struggle over it are misguided. We’re asking the wrong questions and making the wrong assumptions. The truth is that our worship services [...]
Its Just as Much for Christians as it is Non-Christians
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Cross, Deliverance, Gospel, Jonah, Siners on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The story of Jonah shows us that this gospel of the cross – the good news that God relentlessly pursues sinners in order to rescue them – is just as much for Christians as it is for non-Christians. Jonah’s life proves this, because Jonah, who knows God, obviously needs divine deliverance as much as anyone [...]
God Does Not Just Rescue Us From Our Sin…
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Glory of God, Redemption, Sin on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In redeeming us, God doesn’t simply rescue us from our sin; he also rescues us to do something – to develop the world around us to the glory of God. Therefore, when God saves us, we no longer have to settle for creating our own transitory meaning. – Tchividjian, Tullian; Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless [...]
The Most Startling Aspect of God’s Mission
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Fallible People, God's Mission, Jesus' Second Coming on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To me, the most startling aspect of God’s mission is that he has called fallible people like you and me to take part in it. When Jesus came the first time, he began the process of “making all things new.” When he comes a second time, he’ll finish what he started. But in between those [...]
Kill or be Killed!
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Cross, Grace, Sin on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The proof of God’s expansive grace is the cross of Christ. And by virtue of what Christ accomplished on the cross, we’re to further appropriate that grace and be killing sin in our lives – or it will be killing us. – Tchividjian, Tullian; Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels; Crossway Books; Wheaton, [...]
Our Sin-Corrupted Mechanism
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Self-Righteousness on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Regardless of where each of us is on the self-righteousness continuum, we’re all looking down our noses to some degree at someone who is not like us. Our sin-corrupted survival mechanism makes us think “I have to believe I’m better than somebody“ – Tchividjian, Tullian; Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels; Crossway Books; Wheaton, [...]
It’s Not Just Atheists nor Agnostics Doing This…
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Agnostics, Athiest, Christians, God's Grace, God's Mission, Jonah, Sin on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not just atheists and agnostics and other non-Christians who write God off. Christians too, can put him on the shelf. In fact, every time we sin, we’re in that moment dismissing God. ANd it’s always because in that moment, we fail to understand the size of our sin, the size of God’s grace and [...]
God’s Message to His People in Jonah
Posted in Tchividjian, Tullian, tagged Jonah, Prophets, Sinners on February 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Jonah is the only prophetic book in the Bible that focuses on the prophet himself rather than on his message. Jonah’s life is God’s message to his people. What is that message? God’s message to his people through the life of this prophet is that we’re all like Jonah. We’re all great sinners - and God [...]
