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Guess who’s coming to dinner?

By Dave Henning / August 5, 2014

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have know who and what sort of woman is touching him, for she is a sinner.”- Luke 6:39 In Chapter 9 (“An Offensive gift”) of One Way Love, Tullian Tchividjian reiterates the concept […]

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Identity “theft”

By Dave Henning / August 1, 2014

“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.”- Philippians 3:7 “The gospel doesn’t just free you from what other people think of you, it frees you from what you think of yourself.”- […]

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Surprised by grace

By Dave Henning / July 29, 2014

And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.  I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”- Luke 5:31-32 “The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God not by doing it right but by doing it wrong.”- Richard […]

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Transformative grace

By Dave Henning / July 28, 2014

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”- Romans 5:8 (NIV) In Chapter 5 (“Ex-Convicts, Failed Disciples, and One-Way Love”) of One Way Love, Tullian Tchividjian comments that what brought him out of his rebellious period was not a spectacular, Damascus Road experience, but […]

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Increased grace

By Dave Henning / July 26, 2014

“Sin is not canceled by lawful living, for no person is able to live up to the law.  Nothing can take away sin but the grace of God.”- Martin Luther Tullian Tchividjian (One Way Love) concluded in the last post that fight, flight, and appeasement don’t work, at least not in the long run.  Fighters […]

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Fight, flight, and appeasement

By Dave Henning / July 25, 2014

In Chapter 4 (“I Fought the Law- and the Law Won”) of One Way Love, author Tullian Tchividjian revisits his earlier statement that when we lay down the law, exercise control, or offer “constructive” criticism, it’s an illusion to believe that real change will happen: “The law may have the power to instruct and expose, […]

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Big-L or little-l law

By Dave Henning / July 23, 2014

In Chapter 3 of One Way Love, Pastor Tullian Tchividjian quotes Martin Luther’s characterization of the Law as “a voice that man can never stop in his life.”  The Law has a power of its own: it accuses.  Whether we consciously realize it or not, judgment and expectation are the root cause of much of […]

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The law of capability

By Dave Henning / July 22, 2014

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”- Galatians 5:1 Tullian Tchividjian begins Chapter 3 (“Confessions of a Perfomancist”) of One Way Love with a discussion of the negative, even vicious, demands of performancism.  Performancism is a world in which successes aren’t really […]

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Righteous Behavior Motivation

By Dave Henning / July 20, 2014

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do  the right deed for the wrong reason.”- T. S. Eliot, “Murder in the Cathedral” Pastor Tullian Tchividjian continues Chapter 2 of One Way Love with a discussion of ethical behaviorism, a term psychologists use to describe a schema that exclusively defines a person’s righteousness in terms […]

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Grace or condemnation

By Dave Henning / July 18, 2014

Pastor Tullian Tchividjian (One Way Love) follows his discussion of The Parable of Two Sons with a tale of two very different lunches he had with concerned family friends, one before and one after he had been kicked out of the house at age sixteen. The first family friend read Tullian the riot act.  However, […]

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Wanted: dead and alive

By Dave Henning / July 15, 2014

“For the death he (Christ) died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”- 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 “Your real, new self . . . will not come as long as you […]

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Grace, grace, and more grace

By Dave Henning / July 14, 2014

“Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.”- Tullian Tchividjian As Tullian Tchividjian continues Chapter 1 of One Way Love, he quotes the definition of grace by Paul Zahl in his book Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life: “Grace is a love that has nothing to do with […]

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