Timothy Keller may refer to:
It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.
God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.
Preaching is compelling to young secular adults. . . - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify. ' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.
One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot. '
Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.
A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.
The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God.
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
Revival occurs when those who think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it.
Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.