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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeWork & Grace: The Spiritual Music of John Coltrane (Open Forum)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 from Coltrane, actually. And what we can see in his approach to his music applies not just to musicians and artists, but to us all.
In this open forum, 1) Tim Keller shares two things we can learn from Coltrane, 2) John Patitucci, a jazz bassist and composer, discusses Coltrane’s music, and 3) Keller and Patitucci hold a question-and-answer time with their audience.
Thi...2025-06-3054 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeSelling – Tim Keller Talks to a Marketing and Advertising GroupA lot of people have an incredibly negative view of marketing and advertising. Not too long ago, I heard somebody say that advertising is the first profession: in the Garden of Eden, the serpent said, “you need that apple.” They were saying that marketing is creating need in somebody else for your profit, whether they really need it or not.
On the other hand, you could make a case that marketing is the oldest profession because of when the Bible says, “in the beginning was the Word.” God invented communication. And in many ways, at its best, that’s al...2025-06-0658 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeFaith and WorkWhat’s described in Isaiah 60 never happened in human history and never can happen in normal human history—and it has much to teach us about how we view our work.
Isaiah 60 looks to the end of time when God makes everything right and paradise is restored. And in that restoration, something happens that we often overlook: all the nations of the world bring their work products—their gold, silver, flux, and grain—as offerings to God. Just as there was work in the original paradise, there’ll be work in the future paradise. And so, what does that...2025-05-0943 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeFeeling His PleasureThere are two typical approaches to work today, and both of them are wrong. Both of them cut right against what God meant work to be.
One approach says, “Work is a curse—something to be endured for a paycheck.” The other approach says, “Work is my way to find self-esteem through achievement.” But the Bible, and the fourth of the Ten Commandments, shows us a different view of work.
Let’s see what the fourth commandment and Ephesians 6 show us about work: 1) work is not a curse; it’s a calling, 2) work is not for yourself...2025-05-0733 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeFriendshipProverbs says you’re not going to be a wise person unless you’re great at choosing, forging, and keeping terrific friendships.
For the vast majority of your decisions, there will be many options that are all moral. Wisdom is being so in touch with reality that you know the right thing to do in the situations moral rules don’t address. And Proverbs says you will not lead a wise life unless you are really good at friendships.
If we look at various verses in Proverbs, we can learn 1) the uniqueness of friendship, 2) how to dis...2025-05-0540 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeEnslaved to Non-GodsThis is a startling passage. The context is that the Galatians, who became Christians out of pagan backgrounds, are now falling under the influence of teachers who say, “It’s not enough just to believe in Jesus Christ. You also have to obey everything in the Bible.”
Paul says something here which is astounding. He says that if they do that, they will fall back under what he calls the slavery of the non-gods.
So we ask ourselves three questions: 1) what are the non-gods? 2) how do they enslave? and 3) how can we be free?
This...2025-05-0240 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod With Us: Through His PresenceThe meaning of Christmas is that God got flesh and blood. In Jesus Christ the holy and transcendent God became really and fully and truly human. He shared in our humanity.
I submit to you that the traditional, moralistic religion has completely forgotten this whole idea. In fact, I submit to you that if you and I really understood the fact that Jesus Christ shares in our humanity, we’d live differently.
What does that teach us about God? It teaches us three things: 1) God has a concern for the physical, 2) God has a knowledge of...2025-04-3024 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod With Us: In the CityAbraham is a lot like many of us, who are not from where we now live. We’ve been brought somewhere from elsewhere. Abraham is the same. Abraham left his home community and became an exile.
The Bible tells us repeatedly in the New Testament that each of us should see ourselves as exiles. We should live where we’re called to live as exiles. What does that mean? What did Abraham actually do in his exile? Let’s look at what the Bible says about how Christians are supposed to relate to the cities to which they’v...2025-04-2834 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod With Us: In Our SufferingHebrews is written to people who had suffered a great deal of persecution and difficulty. They were getting discouraged. Some of them were saying, “What good is this Christianity? We’re good people. Why are such bad things happening to us?”
The writer is showing them that they have resources as Christians such that they can face life, no matter what it throws at them, with greatness and power and stamina. And in Hebrews 12, we come to the final case study that shows this. We come to Jesus himself. By looking at what Jesus suffered, why Jesus suffer...2025-04-2525 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe Object of FaithThe whole story of Moses and the leading out, the exodus, of the people of Israel out of Egypt and out of their slavery is all told in Hebrews 11 in just a couple of phrases.
In the Passover’s ordinance of the death of a lamb and taking shelter under its blood, God gave the Israelites and anyone who wanted to read the Old Testament a clue to the meaning of the universe. Look at Jesus as Lamb, and a tremendous greatness of life will develop. This is the object of our faith. This is the thing we...2025-04-2336 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeMoses and the Patience of FaithIs it possible in a throwaway culture, in a society of throwaway relationships, and in a society of throwaway identities to be a person who can endure and hyperstand?
To hyperstand means you put your feet down and nothing can knock you off your feet. It’s like you’re in a river, but you can stand in the river. That’s what the book of Hebrews is about. And in the life of Moses, we see the secret of endurance, of someone who stands firm in the long run.
Let’s look at 1) what Moses end...2025-04-2128 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeMoney and Your FaithIf we live a big life of faith, how will it show itself in the most specific and particular daily lifestyle details?
The writer of Hebrews shows us the lifestyle of a person of faith. If circumstances and events and troubles no longer have the mastery over us, if we instead master them, what kind of people will we be in the way we live? We will be characterized by a lifestyle of openness and generosity.
There are three kinds of openness and generosity that are mentioned in this passage: 1) living space, 2) social situations, and 3) yo...2025-04-1826 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeAbraham and the Test of FaithHow can you live a life so no matter what comes at you, you face it with equilibrium, you face it with poise, you face it with strength?
Today we come to an incident in Abraham’s life which is called a test. In the beginning of this particular brief account, it says God tested Abraham. This is the secret of a great life. The secret of a great life is to understand you become great only through tests.
We have to understand 1) there are tests, 2) how these tests work, 3) why we need these tests, and...2025-04-1639 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeAbraham and the Growth of FaithThere’s one guy who is so preeminently an example of a life of faith that three religions look to him as the paragon of faith. That guy’s name is Abraham.
Here’s the story of Abraham’s life: God said, “Get out!” Abraham said, “Where?” God said, “I’ll tell you later. Just go.” The Lord said, “I will give you this land.” Abraham said, “When?” God said, “I’ll tell you later. Just wander around in tents.” The Lord said, “I will give you a son.” Abraham said, “How?” God said, “I’ll tell you later. Just wait around.” The Lord said, “Sla...2025-04-1433 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeAbraham and the Cost of FaithAbraham had greatness in the face of a completely uncertain future. He had no idea what was coming, and yet he lived a life of greatness. How can we?
The writer of Hebrews is writing to a group of Christians whose lives were going very badly. And in chapter 11, he says to them, “You don’t understand. The great men and women of God have never had designer lives. Yet they lived great lives.” And Abraham is perhaps the greatest case given.
How we can live life with greatness, with stability, with confidence? There are three p...2025-04-1137 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeEnoch and The Purpose of FaithEnoch is a very mysterious Old Testament figure. God took him right to heaven without him tasting death—because he walked with God. What’s so special about walking with God?
In the garden of Eden, in the beginning of time, God took long walks with us every evening. And yet the minute human beings disobeyed God, they couldn’t stand intimacy with infinity anymore. Humans no longer walk with God. But suddenly, in Genesis 5, Enoch shows up and he still walks with God. What? It’s still possible? Yes, it’s possible by faith. Faith. You can do it...2025-04-0937 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeAbel and the Salvation of FaithMany of us are wondering how we’re even going to face Monday, but the men and women in Hebrews 11 didn’t just know how to face life—they were enabled to even go against the whole world. And the thing that enabled them was they were commended by God.
Abel got the commendation from God—he was shown God accepted him as absolutely righteous, and as a result, he became one of these great hearts who can face the world, can face anything. By looking at Abel, and the contrast with Cain, we can have some understa...2025-04-0739 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeNoah and The Power of FaithChristian faith is more than thinking, because the Christian message, the gospel, is much more than an idea. It is not just an idea; it’s a power.
The gospel bears fruit in you. It’s a living thing. But how does faith move from being an idea to being a power? You stop just believing in God and you start believing God. Noah shows us the way.
Hebrews 11 shows us that Noah does three things that bring the power of faith into life: 1) he believes God, 2) he condemns the world, and 3) he hides in the ar...2025-04-0437 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeNoah and The Reasons of FaithThe Bible tells us faith begins with thinking. The Bible says faith requires and stimulates the profoundest thinking and reasoning. You cannot be a Christian without using your brain to its uttermost.
Nowadays, we’re told by our culture from the time we’re very little that the big questions—what is real, what is right and wrong, and what we should be living for—are questions for the philosophers. We’re taught that the important things are standard of living, career, appearance, and psychological needs.
Hebrews 11 shows us three aspects about faith: 1) that thinking leads to fai...2025-04-0238 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeNoah and the Nature of FaithWhat is faith? What is it made of? How do you know if you have it? How do you lose it? How do you get it back? Hebrews 11 deals with all of these things through specific personal case studies of men and women who wrestled with issues of faith.
I would suggest that it’s the easiest to understand the parts of faith as three layers, one of which comes first, then the others resting upon it. But the reality is it’s more complex than that. If you look hard enough at any one of these aspe...2025-03-3140 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLove and PowerOne mark of a supernaturally changed heart is a changed attitude and view of races and cultures.
In social relations, grace-changed Christians use their power to serve, not exploit. We’re going to look at this by looking at a dispute that happened in the church of Rome, and by comparing it to another dispute.
These passages show us 1) the problems that culture poses, 2) the solutions, true and false, and 3) how we get the power to implement the true solution.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on Jun...2025-03-2845 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLove and TruthSome people say there’s a cultural crisis of integrity.
For example, Volkswagen was revealed to have deliberately used software designed to lie about emissions. It was a failure of integrity from one of the biggest corporations in the world. And some of you may be yawning, thinking that’s just the way things are. But the Bible says a supernaturally changed heart rejoices with the truth.
Let’s talk about 1) how important integrity is, 2) how you practice integrity, and 3) how you can become people of integrity.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy...2025-03-2640 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLove, Patience and SufferingWhen the Greeks and Romans met the early Christians, one of the first things that surprised them was how Christians handled suffering.
Christianity brought into the world a view and a way of handling suffering that the world had never seen. It was one of the evidences of a supernaturally changed heart. And in Romans 8, a passage that looks at all the benefits of salvation, we learn a lot about suffering.
Romans 8 shows us 1) the unique Christian view of suffering, 2) the unique resources we get to face suffering, and 3) how we can make those resources o...2025-03-2443 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLove and ForgivenessWhat are the characteristics of a supernaturally changed heart?
You can be very moral and active in church and still be an incredibly impatient, bitter person. So we’re looking at what Paul says are the marks of a supernaturally changed heart. And for this, Romans 12 is an explosive passage.
Let’s look at what this passage says about 1) patience and graciousness in life in general, and 2) love and forgiveness in the face of mistreatment.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 8, 2016. Series: What We Are Becom...2025-03-2142 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLove, the Most Excellent WayMost of us know how to restrain a life. We start to get in trouble, so we change. But when the consequences go away, we snap back the way we were.
Human nature without supernatural intervention is like a rubber ball that’s squished, but when the pressure is off, it snaps right back. The rubber ball was constrained. It wasn’t actually changed or reshaped. 1 Corinthians 13 is about how you actually change, about how you get a supernaturally changed heart.
What is the supernaturally changed heart? Let’s take a look at 1) two things it is n...2025-03-1938 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeWalking in Wisdom (Part 2)There is nothing that beggars your own sense of wisdom than to study what the Bible says about divine wisdom.
Ephesians 5 tells us a lot about wisdom. And it shows us that biblical wisdom puts God in the center in a way that develops three aspects of wisdom.
We see in these verses 1) why we need to walk in wisdom, and 2) what it means to walk in wisdom.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on June 9, 1991. Series: Christian Lifestyle. Scripture: Ephesians 5:11-17.
Today's podcast is...2025-03-1743 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeWalking in Wisdom (Part 1)Ephesians 5 talks about light and wisdom. Paul says that because you once were darkness and now are light, you should now expose works of darkness and experience the fruit of light.
Then in verse 15, Paul says that we are to walk as wise and not as fools, for the days are evil. What Paul is saying is that walking in wisdom is the way in which you expose the deeds of the darkness.
In these verses, Paul shows us 1) there are two different realms—darkness and light, 2) we are to have nothing to do with un...2025-03-1428 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeNow You Are LightThe essence of Christianity is arguing with yourself. What makes you an effective Christian is that you’re continually arguing with yourself, and you’re winning the argument.
Because of what Christ did, God can restore the world and restore everything if we come to him through Christ. And in Ephesians 5, Paul uses the imagery of darkness and light to argue with us about how we need to be living: “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.” If you don’t get the verse right, you’ll never win the argument.
To unde...2025-03-1239 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod’s Holy People (Part 2)Christianity is never a mechanical thing. And the church is not a morality agency—it’s a regenerating agency.
The real goal of the do’s and the don’ts in the Christian life is always character—growing into God’s holy people. The church does bring about moral behavior but, in a sense, as a byproduct. Because what the church is after is to turn people into saints, to create a kind of person.
In Ephesians 5, we learn three things: 1) your Christian faith has to include a saying no as well as a saying yes, 2) Paul...2025-03-1037 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod’s Holy People (Part 1)Whenever God turns to you, if you believe in him, all he sees when he looks at you is complete beauty and sweetness. Jesus Christ offered himself up and fulfilled all of the obligations we owe God, so he has completely satisfied God. God sees nothing and senses nothing but sweetness when he regards you.
But you still live in a world twisted and broken by sin. And you have to deal with the realities of that. Therefore, there’s always a negative. And Ephesians 5:3-7 tells the negatives: there are prohibitions, limits, warnings. There are no ex...2025-03-0744 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeForgiving and ForgivenIf you look at the particulars Christian teachings, the particulars don’t look that different from many other ethical systems. The difference is that Christianity is never interested in moral behavior simply as moral behavior. In every instance, putting on the new self means to remember your identity.
Being a Christian is ultimately about being melted with spiritual understandings of who you are now that Jesus Christ has said, “You are my beloved child,” of who you are now that the Holy Spirit has come in and said, “I now live within your heart.” Ephesians 4 is an amazingly...2025-03-0544 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeBe Angry, Sin NotChristianity has an amazing approach to lying and to anger that almost nobody else has. For truth-telling, it says truth must always be told with love. And for anger, it says, “Be ye angry, and sin not.”
Paul doesn’t say, “Well if you get angry, it might be okay.” He says, “Be angry. Do it.” Very often it is wrong not to be angry. But then he turns around and says, “and sin not.” It must mean two things: that anger can easily lead to sin and trouble, and that it’s possible to be angry but not become sinfu...2025-03-0345 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeAspiration: “Lead Us"A good test shows you what you really are, what’s really in you. If you’re in denial, the tests are devastating. If you’re dropping the ball, the tests are traps. Jesus says the only way you’re going to come through the tests of life is if you seek God.
How are you doing right now? Are you going through and failing the little tests, and are you setting yourself up for failure of some big test in the future? How can you be delivered from evil in the tests of life? Jesus tells you how...2025-02-2835 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifePetition: “Our Daily Bread”In this passage, we finally get to a particular kind of prayer in which people are very interested: to the place where Jesus says prayer is a way to change our circumstances.
Prayer makes a difference. You can come to God and say, “Give us this day our daily bread.” But notice this happens in the very middle of the Lord’s Prayer. It’s surrounded by all sorts of other concepts. And you can’t understand how it works unless you see all of its relationships to the rest of the prayer.
Petitionary prayer will only wo...2025-02-2633 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeSubmission: “Thy Kingdom, Thy Will”I’ll say it consciously: this is our worst nightmare. More than anyone else in history, modern people believe we ought to have a good life and we ought to have some control over our lives. But Jesus says when you connect with God, you must pray, “Thy will be done.”
This means the purpose of prayer is not that we would bend God’s will to meet ours, but that we melt and soften our will into God’s. The Bible says the way to find yourself and your happiness is never to seek yourself or your happin...2025-02-2432 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeAdoration: “Hallowed Be Thy Name”What does it mean to hallow? It’s a word virtually never used anymore in everyday English, but we don’t quite have an equivalent.
To hallow something means to treat it as sacred and ultimate. It means to make something your ultimate concern, to make it the most important thing, to make it the most crucial thing, to make it the supreme beauty, the supreme aim of your life. Jesus says this comes first, and I want to show you that praise and adoration is really what life is about.
Matthew 6 teaches us 1) the neces...2025-02-2132 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeBasis of Prayer: “Our Father”Jesus doesn’t just point the way to God—rather, he is the way to God because he’s risen. And that means that for Christians, prayer is a unique, radically different process than it is for other religions and philosophies.
Prayer is a rather universal thing, and there are many ways to pray. But Jesus says there are really two different bases on which you can approach God. He’s not talking about whether to ask; he’s talking about how to ask, about why you think you’re being heard. And he says there are two utterly d...2025-02-1938 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeWord: Teach Us To PrayThe Psalms is the divinely inspired prayer book, but when you open this prayer book, the first page is not a prayer. It’s a meditation on meditation.
Meditation is not the same as studying the Bible. In studying the Bible you’re just learning information. Meditation takes what you’ve learned and does something with it. And according to the Psalms, meditation is actually the key to prayer.
Psalm 1 tells us 1) the priority, 2) the promise, 3) the products, 4) the practice, and 5) the problem and solution of meditation.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy...2025-02-1739 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeRepose: The Power and GloryThe Lord’s Prayer is quite a workout. You’re asking for a lot of things: daily bread, deliver us from evil. But at the end, you rest in God.
The last phrase in the Lord’s Prayer is, “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever, amen.” Is that just a rhetorical flourish? After all, it doesn’t seem to be a prayer. But ancient commentators have said this is a prayer of repose. You realize all the things you’ve been looking for are already there in God.
In Psalm 27 we...2025-02-1441 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeBattle: Lead Us and Deliver UsWe don’t see that envy is as terrible as it really is. Envy is wanting somebody else’s life. Do you know what that does? It sucks the joy out of the life you actually have.
In Psalm 73, the psalmist is living as good a life as he can, and everything is going wrong. And on top of that, he sees a lot of other people who are corrupt and they’re having a great life. What is the solution? A particular kind of prayer.
There are four things the psalmist does in prayer that ca...2025-02-1241 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeReality: Forgive Us Our DebtsWhat if I told you there was a process and no matter how much you blew up your life, if you used this process, there would be a way to come out the other side whole?
Well, here it is. It’s what the Bible calls repentance. You say, “You mean just saying I’m sorry?” But that reveals you don’t understand the power of this kind of prayer. This kind of prayer, if you do it in an ongoing way, will finally enable you to change deeply from the inside out.
Looking at Psalm 51, w...2025-02-1044 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeStruggle: Thy Will Be DoneWe need every bit of help we can get to learn to pray, “Thy will be done,” because we’re going right into the teeth of our culture.
The essence of American culture is the belief that the more free we are to decide for ourselves, the happier we’ll be. But Jesus Christ says every time you pray to God, you need to say to him, “Thy will be done.” That goes right against probably everything you’ve been taught in our culture.
To understand this phrase, we need to see that when Jesus himself prayed...2025-02-0738 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeHope: Thy Kingdom ComeWhat does it mean to pray, “Thy kingdom come”?
Jesus gave us his instruction on how to pray in the Lord’s Prayer, and it’s filled with concepts you need to know from the rest of the Bible. There are two places—Matthew 5 and Luke 6—where Jesus tells us a lot about the kingdom of God and the blessedness of the kingdom.
I want to show you 1) what the kingdom of God is, 2) what it’s not, 3) what it’s like, 4) how you enter it, and 5) how that relates to prayer.
This sermon was preach...2025-02-0536 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeAwe: Hallowed Be Thy NameHallowed is an old English word that means to treat something as sacred. It means to be captivated, astonished, melted with grateful joy for who God is and what he has done.
For many years, I felt I didn’t know how to praise God, because nobody ever gave me specifics. As we look now at one phrase in the Lord’s Prayer, “Hallowed be thy name,” we’ll look at five aspects that are all needed if we’re going to praise.
There are five aspects to praise and adoration: 1) thinking, 2) expressing, 3) appraising, 4) beholding, and 5) restin...2025-02-0334 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeFamily: Our FatherWhat does it mean to pray, “Our Father”? It’s much more complicated than you think.
Everything Jesus Christ came to do—the reason he came, the purpose of his salvation—was that we might receive adoption. We can pray “Our Father” because we’ve been adopted into the family of God.
Let’s look briefly at 1) the gift of adoption, 2) what it means to be adopted, 3) the reason we can be adopted, and 4) how it applies to prayer.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 28, 2014. Series: The Prayer o...2025-02-0142 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeMembers of One AnotherIf you’re going to deal with the brutal realities of life, the writer of Hebrews says you have to have shepherds in your life.
Hebrews is written to people whose lives are filled with problems. And here, in the last passage of Hebrews, the writer tells us if we’re gonna make it, we have to have shepherding in our lives.
The text tells us 1) our insulting need for shepherds, 2) the surprising identity of shepherds, and 3) the secret power of the shepherds.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presb...2025-01-3141 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe City of GodWhen you embrace God by faith two things come into your life: a transforming power and a deep tension. It’s a duality. If you try to resolve the deep tension, you lose the transforming power.
The writer of Hebrews says the great believers in history were resident aliens on earth. In Greco-Roman society, a resident alien was a permanent resident but not a citizen. That is the tension that anyone who wants the transforming power of God must live with.
If we want to understand the message, we need to see four things we lea...2025-01-2939 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe Community of GraceThis passage in Hebrews seems like an anti-climax. Throughout the book, the writer gives us something to help us face the brutal realities of life. But then, Hebrews 13 seems different. At first it looks like a to-do list, like miscellaneous ethical prescriptions, but that’s wrong.
This is not an anti-climax. What we’re being told is that we’ll never make it in life without being deeply embedded in a robust community of people who have experienced the grace of God.
This passage tells us about 1) the importance of that community, 2) the intensity of the com...2025-01-2743 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeShaker of the EarthHebrews was written to people who have been shaken by life. Difficulties and sufferings have shaken them to the core.
The writer is trying to help them find ways to face the brutal realities of life, to stand solid when everything around them is falling apart. In Hebrews 12, we have the climax. The writer pulls together all of the threads and says, “In an unstable world, here is how you can live an unshakeable life.”
This passage depicts 1) the shakable life, 2) the unshakeable life, and 3) how to receive that unshakeable life.
This sermon was p...2025-01-2440 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe RunnerThere’s never been a culture with a lower pain threshold than ours. There’s never been a culture that gave us fewer resources for dealing with the brutal realities of life and death than ours.
The writer of Hebrews wants his readers to understand how to become the kind of people who can cope with the brutal realities of life. To a great degree, the climax of his argument is here in Hebrews 12.
We’re taught here 1) life is a race, 2) why to run the race, and 3) how to run the race.
This se...2025-01-2241 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe Unseen FoundationHebrews is written to help us have what it takes to face the difficulties of life. And in chapter 11, we’re told one of the keys is to be people of faith. But what is faith?
In our cultural moment, conservatives see faith as a moral virtue, while liberals see skepticism as a mark of intellectual maturity. As usual, the Bible’s understanding of faith is much more nuanced, much more sophisticated and complex, than either of those views.
Life-transforming faith, according to this text, has four aspects: 1) it’s rational, 2) it’s personal, 3) it’s foundatio...2025-01-2038 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeA Better Resurrection (Easter)The book of Hebrews is written to people who are so beaten down with troubles that they’re ready to give up.
The writer is trying to give the readers what they need to handle the brutal realities of life in this world. In Hebrews 11, he gives us something that helps us handle anything.
If you have it, you can handle absolutely anything life throws at you: 1) what is it? and 2) how do we get it?
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 27, 2005. Series: Christ: Our Trea...2025-01-1733 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe SacrificeWhen modern people hear that God requires blood to turn aside his wrath from sin, it sounds offensive. It sounds disgusting, primitive, obscene.
Christianity has sometimes been called the religion of the slaughterhouse. It doesn’t seem to be what we need in a world that’s filled with blood and violence. But Jesus saves through his blood. And the book of Hebrews says there’s power in the blood.
Without the shedding of blood, Hebrews says we wouldn’t know three things: 1) the depth of our problem, 2) the power of God’s solution, and 3) the extent o...2025-01-1539 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe Lord We Can KnowJesus Christ did not come to start a new religion. He didn’t come to start the best religion. He came to end religion.
Every religion has its extremists. Religion causes an enormous amount of conflict and strife in this world. What are we going to do about it? To embrace Jesus Christ is to end religion, is to move away from all religion.
There are two things Hebrews 8 tells us: 1) Jesus came to end all religion and, 2) therefore, Jesus came to give us a radical new covenant relationship with God.
This sermon was...2025-01-1341 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe AdvocateTo be able to handle life, there’s nothing more practical than to know that Jesus is your advocate.
This isn’t just an abstract doctrinal issue. Because this whole book of Hebrews is written not as a theological treatise, but as a piece of intense pastoral counseling.
So let’s ask three questions: 1) why do we need an advocate? 2) how is Jesus Christ the advocate we need? and 3) what difference will it make in your life if you receive him as such?
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyt...2025-01-1038 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeWonderful CounselorThe book of Hebrews is telling us we’ll never make it through life without counseling—daily counseling.
A main theme of Hebrews is that life in this world is a journey, spiritually speaking, through a wilderness. In verse 13, it says the only way we’re going to get through it is with this little word: the Greek word, parakaleō. It’s often translated as encouragement, but it comes closest to what we today would call counseling.
Let’s ask the text these questions: 1) why do we need counseling? 2) what kind of counseling do we need? 3) who...2025-01-0840 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe Rest-GiverHebrews is written to first-century, urban people who are so weary with troubles and difficulties that they’re in danger of giving up. What do they need?
It’s pretty obvious from this passage what the writer is trying to get across: because eight times in eleven verses we see the word “rest.” It’s not just a crucial message for them, but for us too. We live in a culture that’s probably more in need of this message than any other culture in history.
This passage shows us 1) the importance of rest, 2) the two levels of...2025-01-0642 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeBrother, Captain, KingThe book of Hebrews is written to a group of urban, first-century Christians who were struggling with fear and discouragement because their lives were so filled with troubles.
The question this book asks is if God loves us so much, why are our lives so hard? In almost every passage, the answer it gives is that fear and discouragement can be dealt with by looking at Jesus.
Hebrews 2 says if you really want to deal with fear and discouragement in your life, you need to see that Jesus is 1) the king who gets involved with us...2025-01-0336 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeChrist: The Final WordIf God is so committed to our joy and our glory, if he loves us so much, why is our life so hard?
That’s what the book of Hebrews is about and the answer, in a nutshell, is life is a journey. It’s a journey from weariness into rest. It’s a journey from alienation into the presence of God. It’s a journey from isolation into the city of God. And the only way you’re going to get home is by fixing your eyes on Jesus. The whole idea of Hebrews is you don’t get h...2025-01-0139 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeA Christian’s WeepingPsalm 126 has always helped me. It has never filled my soul with glory. It has always made me quiet and reflective. Because it’s a perfect overview of the emotional life that the life of faith brings.
You’re going to weep. In this world, you will weep. But how are you weeping? What are you doing with your sorrows? They need to be sown. They need to be invested. They need to be planted, in a sense, or they need to water.
Psalm 126 tells us 3 things about how we’re supposed to address our sorrow...2024-12-3041 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeA Christian’s HappinessJesus tells his disciples that no one will take away their joy. Now that’s pretty amazing. He knows to whom he is talking. He is speaking to men who are going to be persecuted. They’re going to be robbed of everything they own. They’re going to be tortured. They’re going to be put to death.
The Bible says there is a joy that is not subject to circumstances, that the deepest troubles can’t put out, that can coexist and overwhelm the greatest grief. And these three verses in Romans 8 have the heart of it. In...2024-12-2741 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe Courage of ChristmasJesus was about to come into Joseph’s life, and Joseph thought he was doing the right thing to arrange things so it wouldn’t happen. Joseph was going to dismiss Mary quietly. But the angel comes to Joseph and says, “Your problem is you’re a coward. Do not be afraid.”
This passage shows us that you can’t be a Christian unless you have courage. Or put another way, to let Jesus into your life, to receive Jesus into your life, takes courage above all.
Another way to put it is you will not receive J...2024-12-2520 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod With Us: Through His PresenceThe meaning of Christmas is that God got flesh and blood. In Jesus Christ the holy and transcendent God became really and fully and truly human. He shared in our humanity.
I submit to you that the traditional, moralistic religion has completely forgotten this whole idea. In fact, I submit to you that if you and I really undertstood the fact that Jesus Christ shares in our humanity, we’d live differently.
What does that teach us about God? It teaches us three things: 1) God has a concern for the physical, 2) God has a knowledge of...2024-12-2324 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeHome From ExileIn the Christmas stories, a theme that’s more important than you might think is the theme of exile and home.
The book of Isaiah is filled with prophecies about a future messianic age brought by a future messianic king who would put all things right. Because Christians believe that messianic king was Jesus, we’re looking at these prophecies to help us grasp the richness of what Christmas means and who it was who was born in the manger.
Let’s take a look at Isaiah 35 to see 1) what the text means, 2) what Christmas means...2024-12-2036 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeHealing From DecayThe themes of Christmas, if grasped, are life-transforming.
We’re looking at the book of Isaiah, at the prophesies of the messiah. Because Christians believe the messianic king that Isaiah prophesied was Jesus, we believe these prophecies help us understand the richness of the meaning of Christmas and who Jesus is.
Isaiah 11 tells us three things about this great prophesied king: 1) the justice of the king, 2) the wisdom of the king, and 3) the identity of the king.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on December 15, 2013. Series: Jesus, Our...2024-12-1831 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLight in the DarknessWhat does Christmas mean?
The Old Testament book of Isaiah helps us come to grips with the riches of Christmas. If I could put it in one sentence, it tells us that Christmas means the unexpected, ultimate light comes through the God-man, which can only be received by grace.
Let’s look at it: Christmas means 1) God does something unexpected, 2) the salvation has to do with the ultimate light, and 3) the hope you get can only be received as a gift of grace.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Pre...2024-12-1630 minTimothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThanks Be to God!The end of a worship service is always about mission. A minister says, “Let us go forth to serve the world as those who love our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” Then the people say, “Thanks be to God.”
Do you realize how significant this is? You are being sent out into the world to give your life in service, now reshaped by the knowledge that Jesus Christ is your Savior, and you’re filled with his love.
Let’s look at Psalm 67 to learn about 1) the fact of mission, 2) the character of mission, 3) the dynamic for mi...2024-12-1337 min
Cultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerCultivating a Healthy Marriage (Part 2) – Q&AThis talk was given by Dr. Timothy Keller and Kathy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 1, 2005. Series: Cultivating a Healthy Marriage.
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Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https...2024-08-2756 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerCultivating a Healthy Marriage (Part 1)This talk was given by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 1, 2005. Series: Cultivating a Healthy Marriage.
To receive the devo offer in this episode of "The Meaning of Marriage: A Couple's Devotional," visit https://gospelinlife.com/devo
Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give...2024-08-271h 17Cultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerThe Marriage Supper of the LambWe 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 am talking about Christ and the church.” He says everything he’s said about marriage has also been about Christ and the church.
This verse teaches there are some things we would never know about marriage if we didn’t know about how we relate to Christ by faith. Conversely, there are things we would never know about our relationship with Christ if we didn’t know about marriage. You can’t compl...2024-08-2048 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerMarriage as Completion: Gender Roles (Part 2)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 area to think carefully.
In our series on marriage, we look for the second time at Ephesians 5:22: “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church.” What does this mean? It means a whole lot.
Let’s look at what this passage teaches about the head: 1) head means the...2024-08-1346 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerMarriage as Completion: Gender Roles (Part 1)Depending on the culture it’s sitting in, Christianity can either be considered radically liberal or horribly conservative. But Christianity isn’t to the left or to the right. In fact, if it’s true that Christianity doesn’t arise from the human spectrum of thought, but that it comes from above, then it’s natural that it doesn’t fit any particular ideology—and that every ideology is going to be suspicious of it.
In a series on marriage, we come now to the question of whether there’s any differentiation between the roles and obligations of a husband and...2024-08-0746 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerMarriage as Completion: One FleshWe’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 marriage.
Ephesians 5 teaches that there’s a mutuality between husband and wife, and yet the commands are not the same to both. They’re equal, but they’re not equivalent.
We’ll look now at 1) the concept that in marriage you become one flesh, 2) how this oneness happens, and 3) how this oneness bridges into the subject of role relationships between men and women in marriage.
2024-07-3040 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerMarriage as FriendshipMarriage is a cosmic friendship, a spiritual friendship, a friendship with eternal dimensions. Marriage is not romance garnished with friendship. Rather, biblically, marriage is friendship garnished with romance.
If you’re going to marry somebody, you should marry someone who is now or has the potential to be your very best friend. But friendship is not just a feeling of affection. Friendship is a particular form of love, and it has a structure.
The structure of friendship is a deep oneness that comes from two people journeying together toward a common horizon. Let’s look now...2024-07-2335 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerMarriage as Priority and FriendshipI’m tired of listening to sentimental, slurpy talks on marriage during weddings and in Sunday school and in sermons. They have about as much depth and reality to them as a Hallmark card. The fact is, marriage is many things—in fact, it’s everything except slurpy and sentimental.
Marriage is glorious: it’s a burning strength and joy. Marriage is hard: it’s blood, and it’s sweat, and it’s tears. It’s defeats, and it’s victories. It’s almost everything except sweet.
We’re in a series on the Bible’s view of marriage. We’v...2024-07-1648 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerMarriage as Commitment and PriorityThe purpose of marriage is friendship, companionship. Your spouse has to be your best friend, or you don’t have a marriage. I know that’s not traditional, but it’s biblical.
We’re in a series looking at marriage: at its power, its definition, its priority, its purpose, its structure, and its mystery. So far, we’ve looked at the power of marriage and the definition of marriage. Now we’ll look more into the definition of marriage and then at the priority marriage.
We’ll look now at 1) three critical aspects without which a marriage wil...2024-07-0945 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerOverview: Marriage as CommitmentEphesians 5 is the most detailed and famous of New Testament passages about marriage. It shows us the power, the definition, the priority, the purpose, the structure, and the mystery of marriage.
In this series, we’ve already looked at the power of marriage, though we’ll talk a little more about it now. Then the next aspect to discuss is the definition of marriage: that marriage is a covenant.
We’ll look at 1) what it means that marriage is a covenant and 2) the amazing and practical ramifications of marital commitment.
This sermon was preach...2024-07-0348 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerMarriage as Ministry PowerWhether you’re single, married, widowed, or divorced, you can immediately apply Scripture’s teachings about marriage to your life.
According to the Scripture, marriage is a divine invention. It stands apart from other human institutions because it didn’t evolve out of human thinking. And the basic principles for marriage that are laid out in Ephesians 5 are critical to our understanding of what God says marriage is.
We’ll look now at the first of these basic principles: Self-centeredness is the main enemy of any marriage.
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy...2024-07-0336 minCultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim KellerTrailer: Kathy Keller introduces Cultivating a Healthy MarriageThe Cultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim Keller podcast series is a great resource for anyone wanting to have more loving relationships, someone considering marriage, or any couple who wants to make their marriage stronger. In this series, listeners will work through tough questions like:
- How can I honestly address my self-centeredness?
- How can we learn to serve each other out of love?
- What do we need to reconcile when we hit rough patches in our relationship?
Preached in 1991, this series was the basis for the bestselling book by Tim...2024-06-1403 min
Tim Hatch LiveFaith & Innovation: Tim Keller and Elon Musk can Inspire Christians to stand for what they believeFaith & Innovation: Tim Keller and Elon Musk can Inspire Christians to stand for what they believe by Tim Hatch2023-05-2459 min
Juste Podcast with Tim BuxtonLuke Keller — The Entrepreneurs Guide to Positive Social ImpactLuke is the Executive Director for Tekton as well as the founder and CEO of Kicky.com.
Tekton has recently merged with an amazing organisation called Refcode (refcode.org), which provides software engineering training for the refugee community.
You can email Luke at Luke@tektontraining.org, and connect with him on LinkedIn or follow him on Instagram.
This podcast was produced by Jose Biotto & TKB Podcasts. The featured music is from the song “Turning Over Tables” by The Brilliance.
Lastly, a huge "Thank You" to my Patreon Community and everyone out there who has generously suppo...2023-01-301h 12
Questioning Christianity with Tim KellerHopefulness Q&AIn this episode, Tim Keller responds to audience questions based on his “Hopefulness” talk.
This Q&A session was recorded before a live audience on April 18, 2019 in New York City.
2022-06-1434 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerHopefulnessIn this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around hope for the future. Can we live without hope? Can hope exist in the face of death and all the evil in the world?
This final talk of the 2019 Questioning Christianity series was recorded before a live audience on April 18, 2019 in New York City.
2022-06-1445 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerJustice Q&AIn this episode, Tim Keller responds to audience questions based on his “Justice” talk.
This Q&A session was recorded before a live audience on April 11, 2019 in New York City.
2022-06-0728 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerJusticeIn this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around justice and human rights. What are human rights? Where did the idea come from? What are the problems secular society has with human rights? What can Christianity contribute?
This talk was recorded before a live audience on April 11, 2019 in New York City.
2022-06-0748 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerMorality Q&AIn this episode, Tim Keller responds to audience questions based on his “Morality” talk.
This Q&A session was recorded before a live audience on April 4, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-3131 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerMoralityIn this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around morality. What is the basis for moral judgements? Can there be moral absolutes? Aren’t right and wrong just common sense?
This talk was recorded before a live audience on April 4, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-3138 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerIdentity Q&AIn this episode, Tim Keller responds to audience questions based on his “Identity” talk.
This Q&A session was recorded before a live audience on March 28, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-2436 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerIdentityIn this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around identity: How do we form our sense of self and our sense of worth? Am I only as good as my latest achievement?
This talk was recorded before a live audience on March 28, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-2442 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerSatisfaction Q&AIn this episode, Tim Keller responds to audience questions based on his “Satisfaction” talk.
This Q&A session was recorded before a live audience on March 21, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-1734 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerSatisfactionIn this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around satisfaction and contentment: Should we search for happiness or satisfaction? Does God care about my happiness?
This talk was recorded before a live audience on March 21, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-1742 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerMeaning Q&AIn this episode, Tim Keller responds to audience questions based on his “Meaning” talk.
This Q&A session was recorded before a live audience on March 14, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-1032 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerMeaningIn this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around meaning: Does life have inherent meaning? How do we find meaning in life? Can you live without meaning?
This talk was recorded before a live audience on March 14, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-1043 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerFaith and Proof Q&AIn this episode, Tim Keller responds to audience questions based on his “Faith and Proof” talk.
This Q&A session was recorded before a live audience on March 7, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-0329 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerFaith and ProofIn this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around faith and proof: How do we decide what to believe? How do faith and reason relate? Can you believe something that you can’t prove?
This talk was recorded before a live audience on March 7, 2019 in New York City.
2022-05-0345 minQuestioning Christianity with Tim KellerTrailer: Tim Keller introduces Questioning ChristianityOn May 3rd, Gospel in Life will begin a new seven-part podcast series — Questioning Christianity with Tim Keller — for people who are interested in exploring Christianity. This series will help listeners work through tough questions like: Can there be moral absolutes? Does life have meaning beyond what I make of it? Can hope exist in the face of death?
Each of the talks and Q&A sessions were given by Tim Keller in 2019 before a live gathering in New York City, made up primarily of attendees who did not identify as Christian.
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Warhorn Blog PostsTim Keller on Gospel preaching, abortion, and woman's moral agencyMust we wait quietly in our offices hoping and praying for visits from new converts before we unburden our consciences and finally ‘fess up to our true convictions about each of these stumbling blocks that lead our sheep to Hell?
When did we decide that, in our preaching of the Gospel, we would no longer trust in the power of the Holy Spirit? Every one of us should be scandalized by Pastor Keller’s betrayal of the grace of the law in Gospel preaching.
This is a large part of the true impact of Tim Keller on the Church of Jesu...2022-01-1718 min
Life and Books and EverythingTim Keller on Reformed ResurgenceTimothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, is the special guest for this conversation. Along with Collin, Justin, and Kevin, Tim Keller discusses the Reformed movement itself, The Gospel Coalition, and what comes next in Evangelicalism. Along the way you’ll hear advice for evangelizing, warnings about Christian celebrity, and of course book recommendations for pastors and leaders.
Life and Books and Everything is sponsored by Crossway, publisher of the ShortStudies in Systematic Theology Series, edited by Graham A. Cole and Oren R. Martin.
The Short Studies in Systematic Theology Series is d...2021-02-011h 15
The Wesleyan Potluck-Wesleyan News and CommentaryTim Keller's Successful Succession-The Wesleyan Potluck Episode 10Welcome to episode 10 of the Wesleyan Potluck: here’s a rundown of what we’ll be covering today:
In the Lineup we’ll be catching up with each other,
The meal will feature some thoughts on the pastoral succession following the resignation of Tim Keller
The Dessert Table will feature a great John Wesley quote to chew on,
and the cleanup is where we will tell you how to become a part of the Potluck community.
The Lineup-
The Meal-
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The Dessert Table:
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of...2017-03-0600 min