More of these can be found on the Thinkexist.com website
“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word- Prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.”
“Fiery trials make golden Christians”
“Every generation needs regeneration”
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.”
“Of two evils, choose neither”
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Tim Keller talks about Belief in God at Authors@Google
A really good framework for how we construct our beliefs:
The Sufficiency of the Gospel in a PostModern World
Tim Keller on the “Alpha Program” and other once-successful evangelistic programs that churches adopt in order to reach those in their communities with the Gospel:
“I’ve seen this a million times with churches that just sort of try to take the Alpha Program or some other ‘magic bullet’: they raise the money, they train the people, they roll out the program, they’re just trying to ‘graft on’ to the side of their existing ministry an evangelism program hoping that somehow that’s going to help them win poor people—and it won’t work anymore. ‘The demon’s in too deep’.
There’s going to have to be a complete transformation of our personality, our theology and our community by the Gospel. The Gospel has to re-capture us and we have to re-capture the Gospel or evangelism will not work anymore. We won’t be able to do any kind of evangelism anymore. ‘The demon’s in too deep’.”
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“I’ve seen this a million times with churches that just sort of try to take the Alpha Program or some other ‘magic bullet’: they raise the money, they train the people, they roll out the program, they’re just trying to ‘graft on’ to the side of their existing ministry an evangelism program hoping that somehow that’s going to help them win poor people—and it won’t work anymore. ‘The demon’s in too deep’.
There’s going to have to be a complete transformation of our personality, our theology and our community by the Gospel. The Gospel has to re-capture us and we have to re-capture the Gospel or evangelism will not work anymore. We won’t be able to do any kind of evangelism anymore. ‘The demon’s in too deep’.”
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Doing Justice
speaker: Timothy Keller
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As quoted from theResurgence.com website:
In session 8 with our keynote speaker Dr. Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, New York and founder of Redeemer Church Planting Center, preaches on, "Doing Justice" his last session of three from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. The audio that you are about to listen to from Dr. Keller will challenge your view of the comprehensive work of the gospel. Four questions are fleshed out in this session. First, what is justice according to the Bible? Second, what is doing justice according to the Bible? Thirdly, who should be doing justice? Lastly, how can you be one of the people that does justice? These questions and a walk through the book of Proverbs will develop a biblically faithful approach to justice. The Biblical view of justice is counter to that of what we see in Western society. This mp3 from Dr. Tim Keller will stretch and hopefully encourage you to do justice not out of guilt but out of joy. Through faithfulness in doing justice the culture will begin to notice and hear the gospel that you preach.
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As quoted from theResurgence.com website:
In session 8 with our keynote speaker Dr. Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, New York and founder of Redeemer Church Planting Center, preaches on, "Doing Justice" his last session of three from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. The audio that you are about to listen to from Dr. Keller will challenge your view of the comprehensive work of the gospel. Four questions are fleshed out in this session. First, what is justice according to the Bible? Second, what is doing justice according to the Bible? Thirdly, who should be doing justice? Lastly, how can you be one of the people that does justice? These questions and a walk through the book of Proverbs will develop a biblically faithful approach to justice. The Biblical view of justice is counter to that of what we see in Western society. This mp3 from Dr. Tim Keller will stretch and hopefully encourage you to do justice not out of guilt but out of joy. Through faithfulness in doing justice the culture will begin to notice and hear the gospel that you preach.
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