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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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Addicted to law?

By Dave Henning / July 24, 2014

“The law could promise life to me, if my obedience perfect be.”- Ralph Erskine (Scottish clergyman, 1685-1752) “If you want to make people mad, preach the law.  If you want to make them really, really mad, preach grace.”- Dr. Doug Kelly, Tullian’s theology professor Tullian Tchividjian expands his discussion of judgment in Chapter 3 of […]

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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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Addiction to control

By Dave Henning / July 21, 2014

As Tullian Tchividjian concludes Chapter 2 of One Way Love, he boldly states that a major goal of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, especially Matthew 5:17-48, is to clearly emphasize that whatever we think our greatest sin is, in reality it is much worse.  Jesus equates action with motivation, so that any attempts at self-salvation […]

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Rebellion vs. conformity

By Dave Henning / July 19, 2014

In Chapter 2 of One Way Love, Tullian Tchividjian continues his discussion of the story of the prodigal son by noting that the parable is more than a beautiful story of God’s one-way love: “it’s a beautiful picture of God’s one-way love for an unloving and actively hostile person.”  Yet, as Pastor Tchividjian asserts, the […]

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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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Conditionality: a two-way street

By Dave Henning / July 13, 2014

In Chapter 1 (“An Exhausted World”) of One Way Love, Tullian Tchividjian observes that reward and punishment, this for that reciprocity defines our economy, our relationships, our careers, and our institutions.  Everything in our world demands two-way, conditional love.  Pastor Tchividjian adds that through conditionality, we gain safety and control- as far as those two […]

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Escaping Satan’s emotional traps- Part 2

By Dave Henning / July 9, 2014

Today Mary DeMuth (The Wall Around Your Heart) concludes her discussion of ten ways we joyfully can escape Satan’s relational traps. 6.  Realize you’re not the only one.  Mary states that Satan would like you to believe that you are the only one with your specific problem.  Our individual pain is not unique.  We’re not alone […]

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The heartwall comes tumblin’ down

By Dave Henning / July 7, 2014

Jesus replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”- Matthew 22:38-39 In Chapter 11 (“But Rescue Us from the Evil One: Be Fully Alive”), the […]

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