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Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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 min

Timothy 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

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeBenedictionWhat is a benediction? Is it a little perfunctory ceremony that helps everybody know it’s time to find your purse and get ready to leave? No. I’d like to show you tonight that the benediction is the meaning of your whole life. If you understand the benediction, when it’s said to you, your whole life should flash before your eyes. A benediction is a blessing. So let’s look at 1) what God’s blessing is, 2) how it comes, and 3) how it reshapes your life. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Kell...2024-12-1134 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeListening to the WordThis is a sermon on how to listen to sermons. Psalm 19 is a great Psalm, and it can teach us a lot about what it means to listen to the Scripture be read and taught. How do we listen to the Scripture read and taught? We’re going to learn three things here: 1) we need a real word from God, 2) why we need that word, and 3) how to receive that word. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 7, 2008. Series: Liturgy: What we do in Worship. Scripture: Psa...2024-12-0935 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeCall to WorshipEvery week we gather for worship, and we move through the same order of service. But after a while, do we realize what we’re doing? We’re going to look at each of the elements of our services, so we can understand them and catch ourselves when we’re going through the motions. This week let’s look at the call to worship: what does it mean to be called to worship? In Psalm 147, we can see 1) what we’re called to do, 2) why we’re called to do it, 3) how we’re called to do it, and 4...2024-12-0640 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifePraying the GospelPsalm 103 is about how to handle life in general. It, in a sense, gives you the key approach to handle all of life’s circumstances, all of life’s situations, no matter what they are. And at first, this key feels anticlimactic. What does it say the whole problem of our hearts is? That we need to praise the Lord with our entire souls. How? By not forgetting his benefits. David is saying, “The main thing I need to do, the main thing you need to do, is to not forget.” I know that’s anticlimactic. But it’s becaus...2024-12-0441 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGrace and MoneyIf we’ve experienced God as a God of grace, how does that change our attitude toward money? The early church was an economic subculture that was radically different from the culture around it. In fact wherever the early church is described, we see the Christians’ drastic generosity—so drastic that it seemed unreasonable to those outside the church. Why were they so different? The answer is an experience of God’s grace. Grace revolutionizes 1) our attitude toward money, 2) our procedure, and 3) the benefits of giving. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at...2024-12-0343 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifePraying Our GuiltGuilt and shame, having your heart broken under a sense of failure and general unworthiness—I feel this is probably more rampant in places like New York than anywhere else. Do you know why? Because we have so many successful people in New York, people who, in many ways are driven more acutely than other people by this fear of failure or unworthiness. In Psalm 130, we see guilt and shame likened to a hole, to something we’ve sunk down in. And then we’re shown a way out that’s available for a person who’s in that hol...2024-12-0246 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifePraying Our FearsYour first sound, our first sound, is a wail of fear. The baby comes out saying, “Why is it so cold? Who has a finger down my mouth? Who’s grabbing me? What’s going on?” That’s the way you come into the world. Fear, therefore, is maybe the most primal of all emotions. In Psalm 3, David has something to be afraid of. He has literal armies after him, trying to kill him. But right in the middle of the psalm, he says he will not fear and he will sleep in the midst of this. He’s found...2024-11-2944 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifePraying Our TearsWhat do you do with your tears? This is a psalm about weeping, about suffering, about grief. If you were to break the 150 psalms into categories, one of the categories will will be lamentations: psalms of tears, psalms of weeping and grieving. There are many other kinds of psalms, but I’ll tell you, every commentator says there are more lamentations than any other kind. This is the biggest piece of the Psalter. Tears. What do we learn here what to do with our tears? We’re told three things: 1) expect tears, 2) invest tears, and 3) pray...2024-11-2737 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifePraying Our DoubtsThe anger, the fear, the hostility, the rawness, the white heat of the emotions expressed in the Psalms really just disturb people today. You look at it, and you say, “What is that doing in the Bible?” The answer is the psalmists are not discussing feelings, and they’re not expressing feelings. They’re praying their feelings. They’re processing their feelings in the presence of God. What we’re going to look at today is doubt. Doubt always masquerades as more intellectual than it is, but doubt is a condition of the soul and the heart. And in Psalm...2024-11-2546 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod at WorkIf you want the flourishing, thriving life depicted in Psalm 112, you need to know the God of Psalm 111. They can’t be separated. They are linked. These two psalms are each 10 verses. Psalm 111 describes the great God, and Psalm 112 describes a great, happy human life. If you know the unshakeable God of Psalm 111, you become unshakeable yourself. To truly know the God of Psalm 111 leads to the life seen in Psalm 112. Looking at Psalm 111 itself, we see a key link between knowing God and having a flourishing life. This psalm teaches about 1) a powerful, involved God...2024-11-2243 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeGod of the NationsPsalm 96 is an astonishingly happy psalm. It depicts the whole human race and even the trees, the earth, and the sea just filled with joy and rejoicing. That actually raises a question. This isn’t the world the way we know it. Not everybody is filled with joy, and the world itself is a broken place with natural disasters, disease, and death. How could we get from where we are to what we see in this psalm? Is this nothing but just an inaccessible, crazy idea of a world like this, or is it possible to get to...2024-11-2036 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeWorshipOn the weekend before I had surgery for thyroid cancer, I wrestled with this question: “How do you face troubles with peace?” I came to realize it’s not petitionary prayer that helps you face troubles. Of course the Bible is filled with petition, where you go to God and make your needs known. And you should do that. But the ultimate and main way to handle the troubles of life is not just through petitionary prayer, but through worship. Psalm 95 is the classic text about worship. It tells us almost everything we need to know: 1...2024-11-1847 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeContemplationAdoration is a practical skill, one we need to engage in if we’re going to grow into the people God designed us to be. Psalm 27 teaches us about individual, personal, contemplative adoration. And in the center of Psalm 27, it says, “one thing I ask, one thing I seek.” What is that one thing? We learn three things from this psalm about this one thing: 1) why it’s so important, 2) what it is, and 3) how to do it. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on June 2, 2002. Series: Psalms: D...2024-11-1544 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeHoney From the RockPsalm 81 tells us how to handle the wilderness times of life. It tells us how to use various spiritual disciplines as practical skills in order to handle our times of suffering, our times of pain, our times of difficulty. There are four things we learn here: 1) life is a wilderness, 2) there’s a rock in the wilderness, 3) there’s honey in the rock, and 4) there’s something else that I’ll tell you when we get to it. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 19, 2002. Series: Psalms: D...2024-11-1345 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeConfessionWhen you know you’ve screwed up, when you know you’ve failed, how do you get up again in such a way that you have more joy and power than before? There’s a secret basis of confession: it’s a secret only because most of us don’t know about it. And it’s a crucial missing piece in most people’s thinking. Let’s look at what Psalm 32 says about 1) the need for confession, 2) the way of confession, and 3) the secret basis of confession. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at...2024-11-1143 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifePraying Our AngerWhat are you going to do with the anger that comes when you face serious mistreatment, serious injustice? Modern readers expect the Psalms to give inspiration, so when they read the searing pain and anger in Psalm 137, they say, “What’s this doing in the Bible?” But this passage, in spite of how disturbing it is, tells us some important things about how to handle our anger over mistreatment. Let’s look at 1) the context of this psalm within the message of the Bible, 2) the three things the psalmist does with his anger, and 3) the three mo...2024-11-0843 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeFinding GodFor physical health, we have trainers and doctors. Through nutrition and exercise, trainers help you get further than you were. And when you get sick or injured, doctors help get you back on track. It’s the same thing spiritually. There are spiritual disciplines that are like training and spiritual disciplines that treat problems. We look now at a discipline that is a way of dealing with a problem that can be disastrous. Let’s look at Psalm 42 and 43 and see 1) there’s a condition that is certain to come upon you, 2) there’s a set of ca...2024-11-0648 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeThe Liberty of ObediencePaul says you have to work the gift of salvation into every nook and cranny of your life, and that you do that through spiritual disciplines. That’s how you change. But the modern mind finds some of these disciplines more appetizing than others. The idea of meditation is sort of cool. But obedience? That’s not very appetizing. And yet, this discipline tells us that you don’t get changed unless you’re willing to come in under the authority of God. Let’s look at what Psalm 119 shows us about 1) what’s wrong with trying t...2024-11-0445 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeJesus and PoliticsFor the first time, in Mark 15, we have Jesus in front of the political establishment, the Roman state. So we have to ask the question, “What is the relationship of Jesus to politics, of Christianity to the government?” Pilate asks three questions. He asks Jesus, “Are you king of the Jews?” and, “Why aren’t you fighting back?” Then he asks the crowd, “What shall we do with the king?” The answers to these three questions are a lens by which to explore the relationship of Christianity to politics. These three answers are 1) the ambiguity answer, 2) the revol...2024-11-0238 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeMeditationThe word “blessed” in Hebrew is much richer than it is English. It means total fulfillment and well-being. How do we get that? The answer in Psalm 1 is that blessedness comes to a person who has learned to meditate on the law of the Lord. That’s an enormous promise. So let’s ask ourselves what we can learn about meditation, which is one of the disciplines by which we work grace into every nook and cranny of our lives. Psalm 1 teaches us four things about meditation: 1) the promise of meditation, 2) the principle of meditation, 3) the prac...2024-11-0141 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLord of the CityYou can’t escape the city anymore. Technology means the kids in the farmlands of Iowa are getting immersed in the culture that’s formed in the cities. The problems of cities dominate the regions and societies in which those cities exist. But as we see in Genesis, the city is a fundamental part of the human condition. And the Bible has some profound things to say about how Christians should understand the city. In Genesis 10 and 11, we learn three things: 1) the need for cities, 2) the problem we have in cities, and 3) how God is healin...2024-10-3047 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLord of the EarthThe story of Noah and the flood is about the fact that God is committed to creation, and he’s ready to give new beginnings. He’s ready to give a second chance. In Genesis 9, God says to Noah and his family the same thing he said to Adam and Eve. In some ways, it gives more detail into what kind of life we’re called into. In a sense, he’s saying, “You’re not really living a fully human life unless you maintain three great relationships.” He’s calling us into 1) a relationship with the earth, w...2024-10-2845 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeLord of the StormSome of you are thinking, “The idea of divine judgment is upsetting, outdated, and irrelevant.” My goal is to respectfully show you that you’re absolutely wrong on all three counts. The story of Noah and the flood is about divine judgment. And if we look at three things being taught in it, we’ll understand the meaning of judgment. And we’ll see what a difference these three things make for our lives. We’re taught here about 1) the violence of man, 2) the pain of God, and 3) the solution to both. This sermon was pr...2024-10-2541 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeEast of Eden: Sin and GraceIt’s fratricide, it’s brother killing brother, it’s a sensational story—the story of Cain and Abel. People call this the first case study of murder, but I think that’s missing the point. It’s actually the first case study of life east of Eden. In Genesis 4, we see three realities are always present in every day, every part of life east of Eden. It shows that in every aspect of life you always have three things operating: sin, grace, and the possibility of salvation. Let’s look at what this teaches us about 1) the...2024-10-2338 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeEast of EdenThe Western romantic idea of human nature was that we’re inherently good. But the problem is over the last century, we’ve discovered that oppression and evil have not gone away but rather have erupted with ferocity over and over again regardless of social and political arrangements. This has created a crisis for the modern secular person. But the book of Genesis not only accounts for what we see, but also gives us enormous hope that there’s something that can be done about it. Let’s look at what Genesis teaches us about the human...2024-10-2142 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeParadise PromisedEarlier in the twentieth century, the intellectuals of the Western world said it was our society and our institutions that were making us bad. If we changed them, then we’d get rid of atrocities, evil, war, racism, and poverty. But it hasn’t worked. More and more, the Western world is looking back at Genesis, and I believe if you’re smart, you will too. In Genesis, we can see how sin and evil came into the world, and we can see the results. What we have here is a diagnosis and then what God shows us we...2024-10-1838 min

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in LifeParadise LostAt street level there’s still this saccharine view that human beings are basically good and our problems come from our environment. But the Western intellectual world is beginning to see evidence that there’s something inherently evil and violent in us. And if that’s true, there’s almost no hope. But if you look at Genesis, you have the only hopeful answer for how evil got here: it’s not natural, and therefore, there’s something you can do about it. The Bible says Adam and Eve lost their oneness with God, with their true selves, and...2024-10-1642 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. 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...2024-08-2756 min

Cultivating 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 17

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 min

Cultivating 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 Hatch 2023-05-2459 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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 min

Questioning 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. 2022-04-1602 min

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- http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2017/february/tim-keller-stepping-down-nyc-redeemer-senior-pastor.html The Dessert Table: “Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of...2017-03-0600 min