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Billy Graham's Grandson, Confesses How God Helped Him Rebound from Suicidal Thoughts

Julie Brown Patton : Sep 29, 2016  Gospel Herald

"Because I had existentially located my significance in things smaller than God, my loss did not simply usher in grief and pain and shame and regret. It ushered in a severe identity crisis. Without these things and people that I had come to depend on to make me feel like I mattered, I no longer knew who I was. I felt dead. Therefore, I might as well be dead."

[Gospel Herald] Tullian Tchividjian used to be a happily married man, noted author, traveling speaker and successful pastor of a large church that had a school and seminary. But it all came crashing down in 2015, and he admits he eventually became suicidal. Even this grandson of evangelist Billy Graham failed tests that humans face in this broken world, but he now shares bountiful examples of how God met him in his darkest places. (Photo: Facebook/via Gospel Herald)

"Life went from feeling like a fairy tale to feeling like a violent tragedy," said Tchividjian, who added he faced thousands of losses, including close friendships, financial stability, purpose, confidence in God's goodness, hope, joy, opportunity and life as he knew it.
 
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian is the former senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A graduate of Columbia International University, where he earned a degree in philosophy, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, where he earned his Master of Divinity, he also authored seven books. During his time at Coral Ridge, Tchividjian founded LIBERATE-a ministry that sought to "connect God's inexhaustible grace to an exhausted world" through conferences, a website, a daily radio program and a weekly TV broadcast.

"But as shocking and painful as all these losses were, my instinctive response shocked me even more:  the rage, the blame-shifting, the thirst for revenge, the bitter arrogance, the self-justified resentment, the dark self-righteousness, the control-hungry manipulation, the...
 
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