Tullian Tchividjian

The picture on the cover is always hard for me to look at. It was taken in the Spring of 2018 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. I was sitting quietly by myself and just happened to look up when my wife, Stacie, snapped the picture. Every time I see this photo, I'm reminded of how sad I was. I had wrecked my life three years earlier and lost everything. I was still staggering from the internal and external consequences of it all-the guilt, the regret, the shame. I was hopeless most days, convinced I'd never be happy again. I still feel like that, sometimes. But, thankfully, not as often as I used to. I'm broken but breathing. This is my story . . . this is my song. TullianAgainst the backdrop of his own very public collapse, best-selling author Tullian Tchividjian reveals how hope can find us in our darkest places. Carnage & Grace is an unflinchingly honest memoir that explores the hard road of recovery and the mercy that finds us over and over along the way. This is a book about desperation and deliverance, hopelessness and healing. It's a book about how God's restoring grace always flows downward and gathers in the low places of life-in the back alleys of our secrets, in the ruins of our regrets, and in the wreckage of our repeated failures. "My friend Tullian's new book has everything I want in a memoir. It's raw and unsanitized and uncomfortable. He is willing to expose the worst parts of himself, which somehow exposes the best parts of God. This isn't so much a story of a Christian celebrity who fell from grace. It's the untold story of a broken human being who fell into grace-discovering God on the bathroom floor of his wrecked life. This is a must read "-Jonathan Merritt, Author and contributing writer for The Atlantic

The picture on the cover is always hard for me to look at. It was taken in the Spring of 2018 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. I was sitting quietly by myself and just happened to look up when my wife, Stacie, snapped the picture. Every time I see this photo, I'm reminded of how sad I was. I had wrecked my life three years earlier and lost everything. I was still staggering from the internal and external consequences of it all-the guilt, the regret, the shame. I was hopeless most days, convinced I'd never be happy again. I still feel like that, sometimes. But, thankfully, not as often as I used to. I'm broken but breathing. This is my story . . . this is my song. TullianAgainst the backdrop of his own very public collapse, best-selling author Tullian Tchividjian reveals how hope can find us in our darkest places. Carnage & Grace is an unflinchingly honest memoir that explores the hard road of recovery and the mercy that finds us over and over along the way. This is a book about desperation and deliverance, hopelessness and healing. It's a book about how God's restoring grace always flows downward and gathers in the low places of life-in the back alleys of our secrets, in the ruins of our regrets, and in the wreckage of our repeated failures. "My friend Tullian's new book has everything I want in a memoir. It's raw and unsanitized and uncomfortable. He is willing to expose the worst parts of himself, which somehow exposes the best parts of God. This isn't so much a story of a Christian celebrity who fell from grace. It's the untold story of a broken human being who fell into grace-discovering God on the bathroom floor of his wrecked life. This is a must read "-Jonathan Merritt, Author and contributing writer for The Atlantic

In this life, one thing is certain: we will all experience pain and suffering, and most of us experience some form of it daily. Best-selling author Tullian Tchividjian shares in Glorious Ruin, which takes a hard look at the book of Job and the nature of suffering, that it's not about getting over it, getting out of it, or getting better afterwards. Suffering is truly about God's presence in our lives in the midst of the pain. We may not ever fully understand why God allows suffering to devastate our lives. We may not ever find the answers as to why, or discover how we'll dig ourselves out of the pit. But we don't need answers as much as we need Him. For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. In other words, our ruin may not ultimately spell our undoing. It may even spell our beginning. It certainly did for Him. "Glorious Ruin is set apart by its depth of human understanding- the pastoral facts-on-the-ground of how people actually experience suffering-and by its depth of appropriation of the deepest Christian resources for helping people in their suffering. Tullian unmasks the unhelpful diagnoses that the world and the church often offer sufferers. But then Tullian offers a way forward It is a deep and wide way, built upon the cross of Christ. There is another absolutely terrific thing about this book: it is filled to the brim with memorable stories and quotations. Glorious Ruin is a treasure chest from the 'red cross, ' designed perfectly for persons living in the midst of pain." Paul F. M. Zahl, author of Grace in Practice "Tullian Tchividjian's Glorious Ruin is a gospel-driven tour de force. This book comes at you like a torrent of rain on a hot day. If you're suffering or feeling that dull kind of pain we all feel in our lives from time to time, you must read Glorious Ruin. Tullian shows how no matter what you're going through, God stands with you in your suffering and is everything you'll ever need. I couldn't recommend this book more highly "Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church, Washington, DC, and New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker "It is true that between the 'already' and the 'not yet, ' suffering is the inescapable, universal human experience. But when you suffer, you don't just suffer what you are suffering, you suffer the way you are suffering. It is here that my friend Tullian makes his greatest contribution. In exposing our tendency to greet our suffering with self-righteous legalism and denial, he leaves us in our moment of pain with only one place to run, hide, and rest. No, we are not counseled here to run to the hope that we will increasingly learn suffering's lessons and suffer more nobly. Rather, we are faced with the mess that we all are, and we are again and again reminded of the grace of the Savior who perfectly suffered on our behalf. It is this grace alone that frees us from the burden of suffering being the place where we are called to prove our faith to ourselves, to others, and to God, and allows us in doubt, anger, fear, and dismay to run into the arms of our tender, patient, kind, and gracious Suffering Savior." Paul Tripp, counselor and author of What Did You Expect?

In this revised edition with a study guide, Pastor Tullian Tchividjian writes that real life is long on law and short on grace. And the demands never stop, the failures pile up, and fear sets in. Life requires many things from us--a stable marriage, successful children, a certain quality of life. Anyone living inside the guilt, anxiety, and uncertainty of daily life knows that the weight of life is heavy. We are all in need of some relief. Tullian is convinced our exhausted world needs a fresh encounter with God's inexhaustible grace--His one-way love. Sadly, however, Christianity is perceived as being a vehicle for good behavior and clean living--and the judgments that result from them--rather than the only recourse for those who have failed over and over and over again. Tchividjian convincingly shows that Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. In this "manifesto," Tchividjian calls the church back to the heart of the Christian faith--grace. It is time for us to abandon our play-it-safe religion, and to get drunk on grace. Two hundred-proof, unflinching grace. It's shocking and scary, unnatural and undomesticated ... but it is also the only thing that can set us free and light the church--and the world--on fire.

Bestseller-kirjalija Tullian Tchividjian on vakuuttunut siitä, että väsynyt maailmamme tarvitsee kipeästi tuoretta kosketusta armoon - Jumalan yksisuuntaiseen rakkauteen. Kristin- usko mielletään usein vain sääntöjen noudat- tamiseksi ja oman hyvän elämän vaalimiseksi. Kirja kutsuu kristittyjä ja koko kirkkoa takaisin kristillisen uskon ytimeen - mullistavan armon sanoman äärelle. Kristinusko ei ole sitä, että hyvät ihmiset yrittävät pinnistellä vielä paremmiksi.- Tullian Tchividjian

How would life be different if we could think, see, and do all things in light of the person and work of Jesus? With this inspiring collection of 365 Scripture-centered prayers, Scotty Smith helps readers pray the Scriptures through the lens of the gospel, mining the resources of God's grace and applying them in every season of life. He frees readers to abandon any posing or pretending in favor of an honest, no-spin relationship with a God who claims them as his own. Each day includes a Scripture reference and an inspirational original prayer, born from both moments of great faith and moments of crisis. Like a modern-day book of Psalms, Everyday Prayers is a year's worth of growing in grace that readers will lean on year after year.