Sermons by Tim Keller, founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC and NY Times best-selling author of ”The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.” For more sermons and resources, visit www.gospelinlife.com.
289 episodes transcribedOf the articles and books I survey on worry or anxiety, they almost always say, “The things you’re worried about may never happen. So don’t think abou...
A Newsweek cover story said that after a 30-year spree, our entire society is waking up with a monstrous hangover, facing a values vacuum. It said tha...
When it comes to building up identity and self-esteem, I’m afraid Americans are very pragmatic—and our pragmatism gets to us. Our books and articles s...
A fool can be brilliant and a fool can be stupid. Foolishness is not a function of your intelligence. Foolishness is a function of how you use your in...
There is a thirst in the human heart that will not be denied. It cannot be denied. That thirst is for transcendence. Transcendence is intimacy with th...
A plant without roots is at best a tumbleweed. Is a tumbleweed freer than an oak tree? Yeah, it’s free to be blown about forever. There is what the B...
Have you in this modern world learned how to become happy and stay happy? I hope you don’t think that’s a trivial question. Because if you read the ps...
Jesus, in Matthew 18, uses a word for conversion that means to turn completely around and face in a whole new direction. That’s a perfect image of wha...
Christianity was originally never understood as a set of teachings that one took on. Christianity was a power that took you up. It completely turned y...
Conversion is a radical change of life. And in its early days, Christianity grew through conversions. It spread so rapidly that it changed a hostile s...
Christianity was born into a culture that was every bit as resistant and unsympathetic to its claims as ours is. So how did its message come into the...
The biggest problem people have in believing in God is probably the problem of evil and suffering. In the Greek imagination, the voyage was a metapho...
Christianity was born into a society hostile to its claims. And the claim that was most revolting to that society is also what our society sees as the...
The culture in which Christianity was born was every bit as skeptical of the claims of Christianity as ours is. But the case for Christianity was made...
It’s a simple fact that in the Greco-Roman world, the claims of Christianity were found every bit as implausible, if not more, than people find them n...
When the Jewish exiles got to Babylon, they found a huge city—hostile, big, brutal—and it was filled with other exiles, with different people groups a...
We’re not at home. We live in a world that doesn’t sustain or support the deepest needs of our hearts. Martin Heidegger (a fascist sympathizer) and Ka...
In a culture where people really don’t know who they are and what life’s about—in a fragmented culture like ours—the fastest way to still feel good ab...
In a fragmented culture like ours, identity formation is a challenge. We decide our own goals and standards, and we get our sense of worth from whethe...
We live in a fragmented culture. There’s no consensus about the big questions of what’s right and wrong and true. Jeremiah is a prophet in this same s...
