Overcoming the World
Episode Date: October 30, 2023We all want peace, contentment, groundedness. And Jesus says, he will give us his peace. But he doesn’t just zap us with it. He says it comes through...
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 transcribedWe all want peace, contentment, groundedness. And Jesus says, he will give us his peace. But he doesn’t just zap us with it. He says it comes through...
There’s a whole field now called happiness studies—whole departments in academia are dedicated to happiness studies. And of all the things I’ve read,...
When you’re about to die, you don’t make small talk. You talk about the most crucial, important things. And on the night before Jesus is about to die,...
There’s no more important issue, spiritually, for people than the question of innocent suffering. We don’t struggle much with the suffering that comes...
Exodus 33-34 remarkably depicts, in the most concrete way, how to find God. And not only how to find God, but how to find him when you’ve lost him. T...
When we hear the word “sin,” we think we know what it means. But we don’t—not really. If we don’t understand sin, then Christianity makes no sense. B...
It takes tremendous courage to leave the land you’ve always lived in and permanently move to another land. People don’t usually do it unless they expe...
Forget the heroes. These days, we want authenticity. We want personal vision. We’ve done away with hero worship. In the story of Samson, we see that...
If you don’t yet, you will soon sense an acute need for wisdom. You’ll take a job you never should’ve taken, hire somebody you never should’ve hired,...
The story of Joseph tells us something awfully basic, and yet probably all of us will recognize that the problems in our lives are due to a lack of or...
How do we find God? We’re looking now to, I think, probably the strangest of all narrative accounts in the Bible of a human being encountering God. It...
We’re looking at laughter and bitterness by looking at a particular experience, and that is a woman laughing because her only child has been born. It’...
A lot of people say Ecclesiastes is the greatest book of the Bible. But I can almost guarantee none of them felt that way the first time they read it....
We're at a cultural moment in which most people recognize that marriage is struggling. And what does the Christian vision of marriage have to say for...
This is the least appetizing of titles, but I want to talk to you about a theology of singleness. I’d like to share with you the basic theological pr...
There’s a wide spectrum of how individuals experience singleness: some would describe it as suffering, others might just call it sadness, and still ot...
We look now at the peak verse of the most famous biblical passage on marriage. It’s Ephesians 5:32, where Paul says, “This is a profound mystery—but I...
Depending on the culture it’s sitting in, Christianity can either be considered radically liberal or horribly conservative. But Christianity isn’t to...
We’re looking at a subject that’s controversial. I’m going to try to speak as personally out of my own experience as I possibly can. Yet it’s still an...
We’re in a series on marriage, and we’ve said the purpose of marriage is friendship and a unique oneness. And we’ve also said there’s a structure in m...