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Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah
Jesus did not merely weep for us; he died for us. Jonah went outside the city, hoping to witness its condemnation, but Jesus Christ went outside the city to die on a cross to accomplish its salvation.
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Timothy J. Keller _ The Meaning of Marriage:
Marriage is a major vehicle for the gospel's remaking of your heart from the inside out and your life from the ground up.
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Timothy J. Keller _ My Rock; My Refuge: A Year of
Lord, "Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray-I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
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Timothy J. Keller _ Counterfeit Gods: The Empty
English minister David Clarkson preached one of the most comprehensive and searching sermons on counterfeit gods ever written.113 About idolatry he said, "Though few will own it, nothing is more common." If we think of our soul as a house, he said, "idols are set up in every room, in every faculty." We prefer our own wisdom to God's wisdom, our own desires to God's will, and our own reputation to God's honor. Clarkson looked at human relationships and showed how we have a tendency to make them more influential and important to us than God. In fact, he showed that "many make even their enemies their god . . . when they are more troubled, disquieted, and perplexed at apprehensions of danger to their liberty, estates, and lives from men" than they are concerned about God's displeasure.114 The human heart is indeed a factory that mass-produces idols.
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Timothy J. Keller _ The Reason for God: Belief in
If I was saved by my good works, then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through, I would be like a tax payer with rights, I would have done my duty, and now I would deserve a certain quality of life. But if I am a sinner saved by sheer grace, then there is nothing he cannot ask of me.
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Timothy J. Keller _ Making Sense of God: An
Charles Taylor explains why modern people are far more likely to lose their faith over suffering than those in times past. He says it is because, culturally, our belief and confidence in the powers of our own intellect have changed. Ancient people did not assume that the human mind had enough wisdom to sit in judgment on how an infinite God was disposing of things. It is only in modern times that we get "the certainty that we have all the elements we need to carry out a trial of God."24 Only when this background belief in the sufficiency of our own reason shifted did the presence of evil in the world seem to be an argument against the existence of God.
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Timothy J. Keller _ Toda buena obra: Conectando tu
Si nuestro valor viene de la aprobación de los compañeros, o del dinero en el banco, o de nuestra reputación por el éxito, entonces estas cosas son nuestros tesoros. No obstante, Jesús señalaba con razón cuán radicalmente inseguros estamos si atesoramos tales cosas. Pueden ser llevadas o robadas.203 Y entonces nuestras vidas pueden desmoronarse.
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Timothy J. Keller _ Making Sense of God: An
Death was not part of God's original design. We were not created to age, weaken, fade, and die. We were not created for love relationships that end in death. Death is an intrusion, a result of sin and our human race's turning away from God. Our sense even now that we were made to last, that we were made for love without parting, is a memory trace of our divine origins. We are trapped in a world of death, a world for which we were not designed.
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Timothy J. Keller _ Making Sense of God: An
To insist that death is nothing to be frightened of is simply another illusion muffling the obscenity of death. We live in denial of it, but like all repressed facts, it keeps disturbing us, haunting us, and quietly {or not so quietly} draining our hope.
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Timothy J. Keller _ The Songs of Jesus: A Year of
If our prayer life discerns God only as lofty, it will be cold and fearful-if it discerns God only as a spirit of love, it will be sentimental."
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Timothy J. Keller _ Encounters with Jesus:
She reasoned, she doubted, she surrendered, she connected with others.
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Timothy J. Keller _ Encounters with Jesus:
The second thing Mary does is to express her doubts openly.
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