The Breastplate of Righteousness (Part 2)
Episode Date: February 12, 2024When you fail, when people accuse you, when people reject you, how do you defend yourself? How do you look yourself in the mirror? We all have a prob...
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 transcribedWhen you fail, when people accuse you, when people reject you, how do you defend yourself? How do you look yourself in the mirror? We all have a prob...
If you’re on your back and you’re a Christian, it’s because there are resources in your faith that you’re not using. Paul exhorts Christians to take t...
When you become a Christian, there’s a sense in which you receive all of the blessings and all of the privileges and power and benefits instantly. But...
The armor of God is the benefits, the privileges, and the freedoms you have in the gospel. To put on the armor of God means to get a new mindset. It’...
What are we supposed to do so we don’t lead defeated lives? Ephesians 6 tells us about spiritual warfare, about the problems that get thrown at us. An...
You make or break your life on the basis of your choices. In Hebrew Scriptures, the word for guidance is usually derived from the word for rope becaus...
We all at certain times have a lot of trouble dealing with the deep, conflicting, confusing, powerful, sometimes warring dynamic impulses and feelings...
We’re looking at qualities you must have in order to live a wise life. Today, we come to self-control. A man or woman without self-control is not goi...
Anybody who reads the book of Proverbs will see how often the book talks about the subject of work. It talks positively about work under the heading...
Americans are how-to oriented. We want a technique. But Proverbs doesn’t give methods for wise decisions. Instead, it says, “Here’s the kind of person...
Very basic to the development of wisdom is the ability to understand and channel the deep currents of our hearts. The book of Proverbs looks at the su...
You will have a mess of a life if you only follow the rules and don’t have actual wisdom in the area of money. Wisdom is not less than being moral and...
In order to be wise, we have to learn how to understand and manage the power of sexuality. Wisdom is not less than being moral and good, but it’s qui...
If you’re going to live a wise life and have a discerning heart, you need to understand anger. Wisdom is knowing the right decision in the vast major...
One of the main themes of the Bible is that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. But what does that mean? There’s a place in Job where Go...
The appeal of legalism—of multiplying more and more rules—is so we don’t have to think. We want a rule to cover every situation. We don’t want to have...
Most of the situations you face in life aren’t covered by moral rules: “Do I say something, or do I wait? Do I act, or should I be more passive?” The...
It’s not good enough to be a person of vision, a person of high principle, a person of high moral values. Not if you’re not a person of wisdom. Wisdo...
Ancient societies usually had more consensus about morality. Partly because of that, I think they saw something we have a harder time seeing: that mor...
Jesus addresses our worry about money. We are in the grips of anxiety about money, about what we will eat, about what we will drink, where we will li...