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| d6b575f | The essence of other religions is advice; Christianity is essentially news. Other religions say, "This is what you have to do in order to connect to God forever; this is how you have to live in order to earn your way to God." But the gospel says, "This is what has been done in history. This is how Jesus lived and died to earn the way to God for you." Christianity is completely different. It's joyful news." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 0d616ba | When God is asked: "Remember your great mercy and love," he is being asked to act according to his character. When someone asks God to "remember not [my] sins," he or she is asking that God would not act on what he knows. Therefore, to say that the Israelites "forgot" God is to say that they no longer were controlled by what they knew. We could put it another way. Though they knew who God was and what he wanted, those things were not real t.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d98027b | Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others...but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is somet.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 3e0f902 | Tolkien has helped my imagination. He was a devout Catholic -- and I am not. However, because he brought his faith to bear into narrative, fiction, and literature, his Christianity -- which was pretty 'mere Christianity' (understanding of human sin, need for grace, need for redemption) -- fleshed out in fiction, has been an inspiration to me. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 119ff12 | Prayer: Lord, I praise you--though with fear and trembling--that you are the judge of all the earth. Deliver me from the temptation to want to sit in judgment on certain people. I cannot see into anyone's heart or into their past enough to know what they deserve. Help me put these matters into your hands. Amen. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 82ca2dc | Salvation is not merely forgiveness and admission to heaven. It means life is healed, slowly but surely, in all its dimensions. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| cca778d | La doctrina biblica del pecado explica por que el matrimonio, mas que cualquier otra empresa humana, es algo tan dificil de conseguir que triunfe. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 3317f41 | Prayer plunges us into the fullness of who he is, and his love becomes more real than the rejection or disappointment we are experiencing. Then we can handle our problems, and we can hold our heads up again. What could be more practical than that? | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 798ac82 | I think that people will definitely go on holding to their beliefs in human dignity even when conscious belief in God is gone. Why is this the case? I have a radical thesis. I think people in our culture know unavoidably that there is a God, but they are repressing what they know. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| a6ef951 | Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral standards by which moral feelings are evaluated. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 157ab5d | Everything we know in this world is "contingent," has a cause outside of itself. Therefore the universe, which is just a huge pile of such contingent entities, would itself have to be dependent on some cause outside of itself. Something had to make the Big Bang happen--but what? What could that be but something outside of nature, a supernatural, noncontingent being that exists from itself." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 8d85e53 | What is God's glory? It is his infinite weight, his supreme importance. To glorify God is to obey him unconditionally. To ever say, "I'll obey if . . ." is to give something else more importance or glory than God. But while glorifying God is never less than obedience, it is more. God's glory also means his inexpressible beauty and perfection. It does not glorify him, then, if we only ever obey God simply out of duty. We must give him not on.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 4047d5f | Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2d1602f | I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me. | Amy Tan | ||
| 5eaf6e9 | Let me put it another way. There is a "stupid peace" and then there is a "smart peace." The stupid peace comes from refusing to think about your overall situation. If you go that way, you can pop a cork, sit under a tree or on the beach, and try not to think about the grand scheme of things." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| fe22a0d | Prayer , then, is both awe and intimacy, struggle and reality. These will not happen every time we pray, but each should be a major component of our prayer over the course of our lives. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 845b3ab | In the Old Testament book of 2 Kings, we read the story of Naaman, a wealthy and powerful general of the Syrian army.149 He was suffering terribly, dying slowly of leprosy. Hearing of a powerful God in Israel, he traveled there with both money and a threatening letter from his own ruler. He went to the king of Israel and demanded to be cured of his leprosy. Like so many of us today, Naaman thought money, influence, and expertise could addre.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 71970ad | Haz de la comunion constante con Dios una prioridad. Deja de vagar como un ave y aprende a vivir cerca de Dios | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d72bd39 | They rout the inhabitants, and capture and kill Adoni-Bezek ("the Lord of Bezek"), who recognizes the rightness of this judgment on him ("God has paid me back for what I did to them," v 7). It is notable that, while many 21st-century readers have many qualms about Israel's conduct in Canaan, this defeated Canaanite did not. God's judgment throughout history is to give people over to the consequences of the life they have chosen (eg: Psalm 6.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 6cd2f5f | He is both the rest and the storm, both the victim and the wielder of the flaming sword, and you must accept him or reject him on the basis of both. Either you'll have to kill him or you'll have to crown him. The one thing you can't do is just say, "What an interesting guy." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 04fde57 | Your religion is what you do with your solitude." In" | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 9b724a4 | This is why in the Lord's Prayer we don't get to the petition for our daily bread and needs until we have spent time remembering the greatness of God and reigniting our love for him. Only then can we pray rightly for happiness and for our needs. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 9b2d7ac | Paul is saying that sin can only be cut off at the root if we expose ourselves constantly to the unimaginable love of Christ for us. That exposure stimulates a wave of gratitude and a feeling of indebtedness. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 155700b | Look what God's done for me! Is this how I respond to him? | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 1f96c35 | Adoption usually occurred when a wealthy adult had no heir for his estate. He would then adopt someone as heir--it could be a child, a youth, or an adult. The moment adoption occurred, several things were immediately true of the new son. First, his old debts and legal obligations were paid; second, he got a new name and was instantly heir of all the father had; third, his new father became instantly liable for all his actions (his debts, | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 6208454 | Then, suddenly, the defense comes in with a new witness who can be proved to have been at the scene of the crime! The witness says: I was there, and she (the defendant) was not. She is innocent! This person "testifies with" the defendant. He says the same thing and puts the verdict beyond doubt." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| fc8afe1 | The "Spirit of sonship" that Paul speaks of is, therefore, an ability that the Holy Spirit gives us to approach God as a Father instead of as a boss or slavemaster. In" | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 2e9f493 | The word "frustration" here--mataiotes--is the same word as the one translated as "vanity" in the book of Ecclesiastes in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. It means nature is alienated, both from us (who were meant to live in harmony with nature, as its directors, or rulers--see Genesis 1:29), and from itself." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 70739f1 | This is the future--fulfilling, renewing, joy-giving--that creation can look forward to because it is the future that God's children are looking forward to. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 74078dc | It is easy to overlook the fact that the promise that "in all things God works for the good" is made only to "those who love him, who have been called" | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 26700c8 | The same sun that melts wax hardens clay." In other words, what makes a life "good" is not a particular set of circumstances, but how the heart interacts with them." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 374bb32 | This shows us that "the good" God always is working for us is character change. He is making us as loving, noble, true, wise, strong, good, joyful and kind as Jesus is." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 62715f6 | Is there anyone or anything that can separate me from Christ's love for me? And | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| f42a2f3 | The remedy is to read, re-read, deeply ponder and learn to live out of the truths of verses 18-30! | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 7010ef0 | I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child... | Amy Tan | ||
| ddb08f9 | Building our lives on something besides God not only hurts us if we don't get the desires of our hearts, but also if we do. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d8134db | human society is deeply fragmented when anything but God is our highest love. If our highest goal in life is the good of our family, then, says Edwards, we will tend to care less for other families. If our highest goal is the good of our nation, tribe, or race, then we will tend to be racist or nationalistic. If our ultimate goal in life is our own individual happiness, then we will put our own economic and power interests ahead of those of.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 07b6937 | Hay que aprender, pues, primero a servir a los demas, ayudados por el Espiritu, para poder hacer frente asi con exito a los retos y dificultades del matrimonio. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 4bac5ce | Moralistic behavior change simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it. It tries to use that selfishness against itself by appealing to fear and pride. But while this may have some success in restraining the heart's self-centeredness, it does absolutely nothing to change it. Indeed, it only confirms its power. Moralistic behavior change bends a person into a different pattern through fear of consequences rath.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 9b3fff1 | When we use God's grace as a motivator, we can criticize sharply and directly, but the other person will generally be able to perceive that we are nonetheless for them. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 8714a8c | We humans may say, "Let there be light in this room," but then we have to flick a switch or light a candle. Our words need deeds to back them up and can fail to achieve their purposes. God's words, however, cannot fail their purposes because, for God, speaking and acting are the same thing. The God of the Bible is a God who "by his very nature, acts through speaking."105" | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 584e2b8 | It is worth asking ourselves: Where am I saying "I can't" but God is saying "You won't"? Israel's failure to obey was based on what they saw as good reasons--God said they were flimsy excuses. Why? Because "God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1 Corinthians 10:13). God will never put us in a position where we cannot obey him." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 7a9b6f5 | We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 68e955c | Tremendous freedom comes when we can laugh at ourselves and whisper to him, "So! It's been you all along!" In some ways that day will be the true beginning of your career as a preacher and teacher of God's Word." | Timothy J. Keller |