Tim Keller

Book Roundup for July

I am still far behind my reading goal for the year, but I am at least making some headway. Here are a few books I’ve read recently and one that I’m currently reading that I can recommend to you. Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. So far, my only complaint …

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Monday Musings

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said?  The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead. Tim …

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Book Review: The Reason for God

Yes, I know, I am way behind the evangelical reading curve because I just now got around to reading Tim Keller’s The Reason for God.  As one reading this book late in the game, it had much to live up to.  After all, The Reason for God has been called Mere Christianity for a new …

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Fantastic Four

John Piper answers the question, “Should you support Campus Crusade staff now that the name is changing?” The fact that one of the earliest names for the Christian Movement in the New Testament was the fairly innocuous “The Way” (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 24:14, 22) did not imply that these radical followers of Jesus were …

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Are You Too Big for God’s Call?

Tim Keller has posted an interesting article on his blog entitled, The Country Parson. In this article, Keller, the ardent advocate of urban church planting lauds the small country church as a training ground for young pastors. Keller is probably the last person you would ever expect to encourage pastors to live out their years in …

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Book Recommendation: Counterfeit Gods

Normally, I reserve my book writing to short reviews, but for the sake of Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods I have chosen instead to refer to this very short article as a recommendation.  This may be the most important book written for the church this year. I was convicted and challenged. Keller has drawn from some …

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Pastoral Care As Sermon Preparation

For those of you who don’t know it yet, Tim Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City is now blogging. In a recent post Keller argues that as preachers, we must be shepherding our flocks in order to be effective in the pulpit.  Read the entire article and then go visit one …

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Preaching & The Doctrine of Hell, Part 3

Tim Keller has also recently written an article concerning this issue entitled, “The Importance of Hell,” that is posted on his church’s website. Keller discusses the following four key reasons that this doctrine is important to the Christian faith: 1. It is important because Jesus taught about it more than all other Biblical authors put …

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