We do our best to do better, do more, and do now. Life requires many things from us-a successful career, a stable marriage, well-behaved and emotionally adjusted children, a good reputation, and a certain quality of life. Real life is long on law and short on grace-the demands never stop, the failures pile up, and fears set in. And as a result our culture is exhausted emotionally, physically, relationally, spiritually. In our culture where success equals life and failure equals death, people spend their lives trying to secure their own meaning, worth, and significance. The news of God's inexhaustible grace has never been more urgent because the world has never been more exhausted. There's also a statistic The New York Times reported in 2007, showing that 30 percent of American women admit to taking sleeping pills before bed most nights. Richard Leahy, a prominent psychologist and anxiety specialist, said a couple of years ago that 'the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s.' Wow. There's a quotation that astonishes me every time I see it: Dr. Why do you think the news of God's inexhaustible grace for an exhausted world has 'never been more urgent'? I talked with Tchividjian, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, about the urgency of his message, common misunderstandings, motivations versus reasons, 'holy sweat,' and more.

Cook), Tullian Tchividjian sets out to explore and revel in the untamable, unstoppable reality of God's invading grace. So what does grace actually mean, and how should it revolutionize my ordinary life? In his new book, One-Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World (David C.

One way love by tullian tchividjian