#tim chaddick

Tim Chaddick preached the sermon that day, and everything he was saying basically turned what I knew about religion upside down. I grew up in Catholic schools, and I honestly thought religion was just being a good person, doing good things. I don’t think the priests in my high school once explained what the gospel was. Not once. So when Tim was preaching all these things that were the exact opposite of what I thought religion was, I was like, Whoa. It all really resonated, and it prompted me to go forward at the end of the service to receive prayer. It was shocking and unexpected to me, a Road to Damascus moment. It was so powerful, so all-consuming. I was all-in.

What qualifies you is not your loveliness, but your acceptance of His love. It's faith; joined together, His spirit indwelling us.

We underestimate our ability to be driven by ulterior motives and sinful desires. If possible, satan will try to get you to climb up the religious ladder to a high position with the religious uniform on, and what better place to be than at the top of a holy institution? If satan cannot get you to fall in secular society, he will get you to rise in religiosity.

The courage publicly displayed on the battlefield is courage privately cultivated in the wilderness. What we choose even in the small tests radically shapes what you and I will become and how we behave when the bigger trials come our way. ... We must move beyond viewing temptation as a series of isolated events to a person-shaping process.

The lies of sin blind us to the beauty of Christ. It’s when we see both our sin for what it is and our Savior for who He is that we begin to experience radical change in the present.

The greatest temptations lure us by replacing truth with lies, authenticity with appearance, and love of God with love of self.

Inward obedience trumps outward religion.  God is after the heart.

If you want to make bad choices, view inactivity as God's failure.