Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

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Lust says, "What can you do for me?" Love says, "What can I do for you?"

Making Jesus Christ the person you live for will give you a deep rest. Living for anything else but Jesus Christ will just crush you with restlessness and weariness. – @timkellernyc Sermon, The Pool gospelinlife.com/podcast

Christianity says salvation is by free grace, wondrous grace, amazing grace, crazy grace, absolute grace. Why? Because Christianity says we’re not saved by our life; we’re saved by his. We’re not saved by our fulfilling the requirements of the law and loving and doing. We’re saved because he has done it all. He has fulfilled all of the requirements. He lived the life we should have lived. He died the death we should have died. He did it all in our place, and when I believe in him now it becomes mine. I receive it as a gift. – @timkellernyc Sermon, The Pool gospelinlife.com/podcast

It wouldn’t make sense, if Jesus is who he says he is, that everything he says and does would make sense to you. – @timkellernyc Sermon, The Feast gospelinlife.com/podcast

I’ve heard people say, “Oh, I wish I had his faith, or her faith,” as if faith is a talent. And I do think there’s a kind of faith that’s a temperament—people who are more trusting or more skeptical—but that’s not saving faith. There is no type of person who becomes a Christian. Saving faith, the faith that brings you eternal life, is for everyone. And Jesus’ miraculous sign in John 4 teaches us about this faith. Listen to @timkellernyc's "The Healing" on gospelinlife.com/podcast.

Enlightenment progress has given us advances in science but not in human dignity. The 20th century was the bloodiest century ever.

Paul’s conversion is a great reminder that no one is beyond the reach of Jesus.

Anxiety (Not clinical anxiety of course, but rather the regular daily angst everyone has) is a statement to God saying, "I don't think you have my best interest in mind."

"The resurrection was not a suspension of the natural order of the world. Rather it was the beginning of the restoration. The resurrection means not merely that Christians have a hope for the future but that they have a hope that comes from the future." buff.ly/3AHgG65

Jesus’ first sign was not feeding the poor. It wasn’t healing the sick or raising the dead. It was keeping a party going. In the book of John, there’s a series of miracles that are called signs. That’s important because it means Jesus’ miracles weren’t naked displays of power. They signify. They’re symbolic. They point to who Jesus is and what he came to do. And the first sign of Jesus’ ministry is turning water into wine. What does that say about him? Listen to @timkellernyc's "The Feast" on gospelinlife.com/podcast.

The gospel helps us to understand marriage and marriage helps us to understand the gospel.

Worship is an act of ascribing ultimate value to something or someone in a way that engages your entire being.

We can’t live without absolutes, but we can’t have an oppressive absolute. We need a non-oppressive absolute, and here it is: a man dying on the cross for your sins, a God of strength becoming weak and flesh, a man with life going to the cross and losing his life, being the ultimate sacrifice, tabernacling, becoming our temple. – @timkellernyc Sermon, In the Beginning gospelinlife.com/podcast

Jesus had a far higher view of John the Baptist and his ministry than John the Baptist did. Jesus believed he was a person of momentous historic significance. John the Baptist did not. He says, “No, I’m not anybody special. I’m not anybody of significance.” Who was right? – @timkellernyc Sermon, The Lamb gospelinlife.com/podcast

I recommend Dan's book. It will help believers engage in fruitful conversations with friends about faith. buff.ly/3zJRWZg

H.Bavinck's Christian Worldview: Christianity is neither monistic nor materialistic (ontology) neither objectivist nor subjectivist (epistemology) neither individualist nor collectivist (anthropology) neither legalist nor antinomian (ethics). Trinitarian Christianity is unique.

The most damaging statements that have ever been said about us are those things we have said about ourselves to ourselves.

Is God One or Three? Yes. Is the Trinity a "3rd way"? No. Is Jesus divine or human? Yes. A "3rd way"? No. Is God sovereign or are we responsible? Yes. A "3rd way"? No. The biblical positions aren't mid-points or compounds on the spectrum of the world's alternates. They're unique.

Examples of gospel persuasion: (1) John in John 1 making use of the Greek Logos concept to explain the significance of Christ (2) Paul in Acts 17 using 'subversive fulfillment' to both critique and attract pagans.