Everybody has something, that if they lose it, they won’t even want to live life anymore. That is what you’re worshiping.Tim Keller
Reason tells me about the truth, but I really cannot grasp what it means. I can’t understand it without art. Tim Keller
“So what if suffering and evil doesn’t logically disprove God?” such a person might say. “I’m still angry. All this philosophizing does not get the Christian ‘off the hook’ for the world’s evil and suffering!” In response the philosopher Peter Kreeft points out that the Christian God came to earth to deliberately put himself on … Continue reading
Christianity has within itself remarkable power to explain and expunge the divisive tendencies within the human heart. Christianity provides the basis for respecting people of other faiths. At the very heart of their view of reality was a man who died for his enemies, praying for their forgiveness. Tim Keller, The Reason for God, 18,20.
The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel. ~Tim Keller
Thirty-three years of blame. Thirty-three years of regret. Thirty-three years of vengeance rising. The two main characters of this movie, set in Ireland, meet after thirty-three years. Liam Neeson’s character had taken the life of James Nesbitt’s character’s older brother. Scripted with the inevitable telos of confrontation, the two must meet to allay their dark … Continue reading
Tim Keller preached a sermon that I’ve listened to several times. He speaks of the gnawing sense of self absorption that we all have. Secular counseling time and again offers the placebo pill of self-esteem, but Keller argues that more of self is not what the Doctor has ordered. The apostle Paul, a man of … Continue reading
Romantic love can be the ecstasy kind of escape out of reality. Our fears and inner barrenness make love a narcotic, a way to medicate ourselves, and addicts always make foolish, destructive choices.
The enormous power of romantic love can dominate in two ways. If you are afraid of love or too enamored by it, it has assumed godlike power, distorting your perceptions and your life.
An idolatrous attachment can lead you to break any promise, rationalize any indiscretion, … betray any other allegiance, in order to hold on to it. …drive you to violate all good and proper boundaries.
