20/20 Collegiate Conference, Southeastern Seminary 2012 | Tullian Tchividjian
20/20 Collegiate Conference, Southeastern Seminary 2012 | Tullian Tchividjian

20/20 Collegiate Conference, Southeastern Seminary 2012 | Tullian Tchividjian
Surprised by Grace, Part 9 | "Blessed are Those Who Know They are Bad" | Tullian Tchividjian
What does it mean to grow as a Christian? What does that look like? In this message Tullian delivered at Liberty University in 2012, he answered that question by stating at the outset that the way many of us have been taught to think about sanctification is actually very unsanctified. In fact, it’s terribly narcissistic. When the focus of the Christian life becomes the life of the Christian, we get worse, not better. The truth is that when we stop obsessing over our need to improve, THAT’S what ...
This is Part 8 in a series on Jonah entitled “Surprised by Grace.” In this sermon—“God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels"—we see the counterintuitive nature of God’s grace on full display. Some have argued that the reason God gives Jonah another shot is because Jonah repented and humbled himself in the belly of the fish. They say God is blessing Jonah with another chance as a way of rewarding Jonah’s obedience. But there is plenty of evidence here that Jonah HASN’T repented and that his “obedience”...
"The Pastor and His Message" | Jax Pastors' Conference 2012 | Tullian Tchividjian
This is part 7 of a sermon series on Jonah entitled “Surprised by Grace.” In this sermon—“Two Ways to Run from God”—we compare the way Jonah ran from God in chapter 1 to the way Jonah is subtly running from God in chapter 2. In chapter 1 we see Jonah running as far away from God as he can get. God says, “Go to Nineveh” and Jonah unashamedly runs in the opposite direction. At that point, he’s thinking he can get what he wants by being disobedient. But then we get to chapter 2 and we see that Jona...
"I Once Was Found, But Now I'm Lost" | Epic Conference 2020 | Tullian Tchividjian
This is Part 6 of a series on Jonah entitled “Surprised by Grace.” In this sermon from 2:1-10–"Negotiating with God"—we look at Jonah’s prayer from the belly of a fish. He’s in a desperate situation and, like most desperate people, he begins to pray. But there are signs in this prayer that Jonah still doesn’t get it. He still thinks that this world is divided into two types of people—good people and bad people—and that he’s one of the good guys. And because he’s one of the good guys, he thinks G...
Tullian Tchividjian, speaking at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis on Thursday, March 19, 2015, part of Concordia's Reformation 500 annual lecture series.
Surprised by Grace, Part 5 | "Grace Robbing Idols" | Tullian Tchividjian Jonah 1:17-2:1-10
Wheaton College, January 20, 2012
This is part 4 of a sermon series on Jonah entitled “Surprised by Grace.” In this sermon—“The Ultimate Price of Rescue”—we see that Jonah’s self centered flight from God generates an act of divine intervention which produces a momentary act of selflessness on Jonah’s part. It would seem he is getting better, that he’s learned his lesson. But the rest of the book shows Jonah slipping back into self-centeredness. This pattern mirrors our own lives. One moment we’re doing something selfless and the...
"Jesus + Nothing = Everything", Part 2 | Tullian Tchividjian Wheaton College, January 19, 2012
This is part 3 of a sermon series on Jonah entitled “Surprised by Grace.” In this sermon—“Divine Intervention”—we see God go after Jonah in a storm. It seems at first that this storm is divine punishment fueled by God’s anger toward Jonah for running away. But it’s actually divine intervention fueled by God’s affection for Jonah. When we run, God will send storms—usually in the form of consequences. But each storm God sends is a merciful intrusion designed to wake us up and set us free. God is i...
"Jesus + Nothing = Everything", Part 1 | Tullian Tchividjian Wheaton College, January 18, 2012
This is part 2 of a sermon series on Jonah entitled “Surprised by Grace.” In this sermon—“Flight From God"—we see that Jonah’s runaway posture is our runaway posture. We runaway from God as quickly as Jonah did—and it always leads us to dark places. The good news is that God spares no expense in coming after fugitives like us. This is a story that shows how quick we are to run away from God AND how quick God is to run after us. And he does so, not because he needs us, but because we need him....
Here is a throwback message from 2013 delivered at Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina: “Grace for the Promiscuous and the Pious.”
Jonah 1:1-3 This past Sunday, Tullian began a new series on the book of Jonah entitled “Surprised by Grace.” We are super excited about it because, believe it or not, the story of Jonah is NOT about a fish swallowing a man 😊 It’s so much more than that. Jonah is a storied presentation of the gospel. It’s a story of sin and grace, of desperation and deliverance. It’s a story that exposes all the things besides God that we build our lives on—a story, in other words, about where we find our identi...
"There is no other Stream" | Stacie Tchividjian
We love to believe that we are better than we are, stronger than we are, more spiritual and faithful than we are. We feel more valuable and important if we can convince ourselves of these things. But this overinflated view of ourselves is actually enslaving. What happens when the giants we face always seem to win: when we can’t overcome the addiction for more than a week, when we can’t seem to beat our anger problem, when no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to tame our tongue, or get past o...
The Book of Romans has long been recognized as the apostle Paul's Magnum Opus. Everything God wants us to believe about guilt and grace, sin and salvation, failure and forgiveness, can be found in Romans. In this classic sermon series from 2014, Tullian Tchividjian liberatingly unpacks the life-giving message of this monumental letter showing that Romans is pure theological therapy for the soul. Tullian divides the letter into three parts: The diagnosis section: Romans 1-3. The deliverance secti...
"FOUR" Part 3 | Tullian Tchividjian Matthew 5:17-20 ESV
The Book of Romans has long been recognized as the apostle Paul's Magnum Opus. Everything God wants us to believe about guilt and grace, sin and salvation, failure and forgiveness, can be found in Romans. In this classic sermon series from 2014, Tullian Tchividjian liberatingly unpacks the life-giving message of this monumental letter showing that Romans is pure theological therapy for the soul. Tullian divides the letter into three parts: The diagnosis section: Romans 1-3. The deliverance secti...
Here is Part 2 from Tullian's new series “FOUR.” Today, Tullian looks at Matthew 5:3-12 and shows how we typically treat the Beatitudes as if they are all about us and the kinds of people we better become if we want to be blessed by God. But to read them that way is to massively misread them. What the Beatitudes actually teach is that it’s the people who know they’re impure who get God’s grace, not the people who think they’re pure. It’s those who acknowledge their unrighteousness who get God’s ...
The Book of Romans has long been recognized as the apostle Paul's Magnum Opus. Everything God wants us to believe about guilt and grace, sin and salvation, failure and forgiveness, can be found in Romans. In this classic sermon series from 2014, Tullian Tchividjian liberatingly unpacks the life-giving message of this monumental letter showing that Romans is pure theological therapy for the soul. Tullian divides the letter into three parts: The diagnosis section: Romans 1-3. The deliverance secti...
'FOUR' Part 1 | Tullian Tchividjian Genesis 6:5-13 ESV
The Book of Romans has long been recognized as the apostle Paul's Magnum Opus. Everything God wants us to believe about guilt and grace, sin and salvation, failure and forgiveness, can be found in Romans. In this classic sermon series from 2014, Tullian Tchividjian liberatingly unpacks the life-giving message of this monumental letter showing that Romans is pure theological therapy for the soul. Tullian divides the letter into three parts: The diagnosis section: Romans 1-3. The deliverance secti...
Finding freedom from a very popular idea of God.
The Book of Romans has long been recognized as the apostle Paul's Magnum Opus. Everything God wants us to believe about guilt and grace, sin and salvation, failure and forgiveness, can be found in Romans. In this classic sermon series from 2014, Tullian Tchividjian liberatingly unpacks the life-giving message of this monumental letter showing that Romans is pure theological therapy for the soul. Tullian divides the letter into three parts: The diagnosis section: Romans 1-3. The deliverance secti...
"How Can I Keep From Singing?" | Tullian Tchividjian