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Book: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
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  1. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    Creation, then, is not the aftermath of a battle but the plan of a craftsman.
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  2. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    A focus on being good distracts us from coming to terms with our sin; and it is because of our sin that Christ needed to die.
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  3. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    Change from Change to 1. Individual salvation The gospel changes everything {hearts, community, and world} 2. Being good Being saved 3. Cheap grace Costly grace {awareness of our sin} 4. Heaven is "up there" Christ will come again-to this earth 5. God is value-add to us In God's providence, we could contribute to his work on earth 6. Idols of this world Living for God 7. Disdain of this world Engaged in this world 8. "Bowling alone" Accepting community 9. People matter Institutions matter 10. Christian superiority God can work through whomever he wants {common grace}
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  4. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    Vietnamese/American co-production Three Seasons, a collection of four intertwining vignettes.
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  5. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    So we can see all cultural production {and remember, everything we do at work is some form of cultural production} as a dialogue between our innate, affirming response to God's common grace and the idolatrous, rebellious nature of our hearts. Therefore, human culture is an extremely complex mixture of brilliant truth, marred half-truths, and overt resistance to the truth. "Loss of faith in a given religion does not by any means imply the eradication of the religious instinct. It merely means that the instinct, temporarily repressed, will seek an object elsewhere.
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  6. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    A theologically "thick" view of sin, by contrast, sees it as a compulsive drive of the heart to produce idols. This view should lead neither to withdrawal nor to uncritical consumption, but rather to humble, critical engagement with culture. 178
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  7. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    The Spirit does not make us wise in some magical kind of way, giving us little nudges and insider tips to help us always choose the best stock to invest in. Rather, he makes Jesus Christ a living, bright reality, transforming our character, giving us new inner poise, clarity, humility, boldness, contentment, and courage. All of this leads to increasing wisdom as the years go by, and to better and better professional and personal decisions.
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  8. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    Pieper writes: Leisure is the condition of considering things in a celebrating spirit. . . . Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity. . . . It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness. . . . And as it is written in the Scriptures, God saw, when "he rested from all the works that He had made" that everything was good, very good {Genesis 1:31}, just so the leisure of man includes within itself a celebratory, approving, lingering gaze of the inner eye on the reality of creation. 35
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  9. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    Pieper argues that leisure is not the mere absence of work, but an attitude of mind or soul in which you are able to contemplate and enjoy things as they are in themselves, without regard to their value or their immediate utility.
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  10. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    Dorothy Sayers could write, "What is the Christian understanding of work?. . . {It} is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties . . . the medium in which he offers himself to God." 31
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  11. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    The harmony and perfection of the completed heavens and earth express more adequately the character of their creator than any of the separate components can.
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  12. Timothy J. Keller _ Every Good Endeavor:

    It could be argued that everything we do wrong-every cruel action, dishonest word, broken promise, self-centered attitude-stems from a conviction deep in our souls that there is something more crucial to our happiness and meaning than the love of God.
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