Made Right | Tullian Tchividjian | "Scandalous Freedom, Part 04"
Here is Part 4 of Pastor Tullian's series “Scandalous Freedom".
In this message—“Made Right”— Tullian makes the case that the issue of “justification” is not simply a theological issue but a profoundly functional one as well. If we do NOT believe that God makes us right, we will spend our lives trying to make ourselves right—and that exhausts us and robs us of freedom.
So, we think this message will encourage you and help you to feel lighter.
Sweet memories are a blessing and a curse. This one hit Pastor Tullian hard and set him free at the same time. Tullian felt every ounce of it…as you’ll see.
Love you all!
In this message entitled “Failed Love”, Tullian looks at Peter’s denial of Jesus to show that we miss Christianity altogether if we anchor our confidence in our love for God, our devotion to God, our faithfulness to God. Jesus shows Peter, and us, that it’s His steadfast love for us that keeps us safe and sound, not our love for him—which is spotty even on our best day.
We hope this message brings a ton of relief and freedom to you…
Matthew 26:30-35, 69-75; John 21:15-17
This is Part 2 in a series through the book of Job, Tullian has entitled “Glorious Ruin.”
In this message—“Grief as Worship"—we see that sadness and grief and frustration and confusion in the face of pain and suffering is sanctioned by God. In other words, it’s OK to mourn.
Sadly, the required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches has produced a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. But the Bible doesn’t brush lightly over pain. Nowhere do we see God taking a “suck it up and deal with it” posture toward hurt. Jesus is, after all, the Man of Sorrows, the crucified God who meets us in our grief.
We hope this message encourages you greatly…
Job 1:13-22
Religion may offend us because it tells us what to do, and we don’t like being told what to do. But grace can offend us even more because it tells us that there’s nothing we can do. And if there’s one thing that offends us more than being told what to do, it’s being told that we can’t do anything, that we can’t earn anything
We naturally resist grace because it has nothing to do with us and our efforts and therefore it wrestles leverage out of our hands—we can’t buy God’s blessing with our goodness and that can drive us nuts. The religious currency of keeping the rules and being good may buy us a gold star here and some respect there, but it can’t buy us a gram of affection with God. And in the end, this is unbelievably liberating.
We hope this message from Tullian Tchividjian —“Allergic to Grace"—is a huge encouragement to you.
Tullian started a new series yesterday entitled “Pictures of Grace.” He went back to Genesis 3:1-7 to see why we even need grace from God and how quick God is to give us grace in the middle of our guilt.
The phrase “fall from grace” needs to go away forever. When we tank, we fall into grace, not away from it. We hope this first message of the series—“Falling Into Grace"—is a huge encouragement to you.