Self-Substitution of God
Episode Date: July 1, 2024I don’t think there’s any competition on this: the cross is the single most visible and recognizable symbol in human history. It’s everywhere. But wha...
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.
309 episodes transcribedI don’t think there’s any competition on this: the cross is the single most visible and recognizable symbol in human history. It’s everywhere. But wha...
Whenever we listen or read about marriage we bring our own filters. We have filters based on our experiences and cultures. So before we pick at this p...
When we think of temptation, we tend to almost immediately think of physical kinds of sins. But there are a lot of other temptations. There’s temptati...
When Jesus Christ came into the life of the demon-possessed man in Mark 5, it says the man sat at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind. That’s t...
We all have a problem with self-control, right? You can probably think of some emotion or some habit you have trouble controlling. And if you can’t th...
Goodness and faithfulness are greatly interrelated. They both have to do with integrity, with living honestly. The word integrity is related to intege...
The Bible says one of the marks of a real Christian is that your love finds expression in deeds of kindness—especially toward those with material, phy...
When the Bible says the fruit of the Spirit is patience, it’s saying a Christian is somebody who at last knows how to deal with anger. You know, anger...
When we talk about the fruit of the Spirit, love and joy seem like they’re in a higher league than patience. We think, “everybody gets impatient!” Bu...
A lot of Christians are cast down, losing their peace and joy because they don’t expect attacks on their peace and joy. We’re sad that we’re sad. We’r...
When the Bible says joy comes in the morning, it doesn’t mean you’ll wake up every morning with a smile on your face. It means there’s a joy of such i...
They say if you’ve been married long enough you start to look like each other. Whether or not that’s true in marriage, I know that’s true about God an...
In a single acorn is not only the entire tree, but all the acorns on that tree and all the acorns on that tree and so on and so forth. It’s all alread...
The point of Robert Louis Stevenson’s book, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, surely is to make us look at ourselves and say, “Are we that bad? Is the evil in...
All of life is a battle between two selves, but there’s a war before you become a Christian that’s different from the war that happens after you becom...
In Psalm 73, Asaph is mad at God. He’s been living right, but everything is going wrong. Yet all kinds of abusive people are having great lives. Life...
A lot of people are mad at God. People who believe. People who don’t believe. And people who don’t know what they believe. And in Psalm 73, we see Asa...
Jesus’ teaching about money here is triggered by an event: a Pharisee gets upset that Jesus didn’t wash his hands before he ate his food. The ceremon...
Everyone points to a different reason for why the city has problems. The futurologists will say, “Technology has doomed the city. We don’t need to liv...
Guilt is a lot like an iceberg. You don’t see much above the surface, but if you really look, you’ll see it’s under everything. So how do you deal wit...