Why a Public Faith?
Episode Date: August 4, 2025We live in a pluralistic society, so we must ask this question: how can people be true to themselves and still get along? No matter who you are, if yo...
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.
410 episodes transcribedWe live in a pluralistic society, so we must ask this question: how can people be true to themselves and still get along? No matter who you are, if yo...
We live in a culture in which there are more choices than there ever have been. But you can be incredibly good, moral, and knowledgeable and still mak...
There are choices everywhere, just zillions and zillions of choices. And if you don’t make good choices, it can be very destructive. Bad choices blow...
The trouble with the Sermon on the Mount is it’s so familiar that almost nobody listens to it, almost nobody knows what it’s saying. How do we know th...
There’s no one section where Jesus lays out how a relationship with him radically changes our human relationships and forms a new, deep, radical human...
When people say, “I’ve tried prayer, and it didn’t work,” what Jesus is saying is, “You used prayer, not the way I designed it, but with a false model...
If we actually take the gospel, the essential message of Jesus Christ, and we live it out, what will it look like? That’s what the Sermon on the Mount...
On the surface, one of the most unattractive things about Christianity to our culture today is its view of sex; but if you look underneath the surface...
Do you understand what your heart is really like? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is saying that the reason we’re inauthentic or hiding from other p...
As soon as you hear the word relationships, right away you say, “Ah, relationships,” and you think of friendship or romance. But the main purpose of t...
What is the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus? In 1 Corinthians 15, there are three basic things Paul says about the resurrection as he answers thr...
Christianity is utterly different from religion. At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says there are two paths—one that leads to life and one...
Every other revolutionary who ever lived was really only trying to rework or reshuffle the same old kingdom. Except Jesus. A kingdom always has three...
What can the music of John Coltrane tell us about the relationship of art to God, and of our own work in general to God? We can all learn quite a lot...
In Ecclesiastes, the author takes the position of a practical secularist. And he asks, “If this life is all there is, then is life meaningless?” The w...
Consider how much of your time, how much of your life, is built around your work. Yet, so many of the books and materials that look at what it means t...
Some of you may know I was actually a teacher at graduate school seminary for five years. Then I said, “Get me back in the ministry,” where there is n...
If you’re Christian, what is the rationale for being an actor? Why should Christians be actors? How should Christians who are actors or writers or cho...
How does the gospel affect your work? We’re in a series where we’re asking, “What happens when you take the gospel, the basic message of Jesus Christ...
When we talk about creativity, we mean artists of course. But we also actually mean entrepreneurs—whose creativity is as important to what they do as...