Tullian Tchividjian gives some of the best sermons I have ever heard. He is always Christ-centred, bringing us from peripheral concerns back to the core of the gospel.
This is his first sermon in a series on Grace, as revealed through Genesis. Definitely worth listening to.
The core of his message is summarised in these potent statements:
Our identity is so often anchored in something smaller than what Jesus has secured for us, and it becomes a burden on our shoulders that we have to 'create' ourselves, that we have to 'make something' of ourselves.
We are not achievers, we are receivers [of grace, the earth and life].
As a symbol of our faith, we have a cross, not a ladder.
New life happens as a result of God's movement toward us, not our movement toward God. [...] That's what separates the Christian life from every other world religion.
There is never more than the Gospel, there is only more of the Gospel. Once God saves us he doesn't then move us beyond the Gospel, he moves us more deeply into the Gospel.
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