Tag Archives: Keller

Rob Bell’s “Love Wins” Review, Chapter 3b: The Love of God

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

A large part of the Rob Bell discussion on the Internet has focused on labels. Is Bell a universalist? Is Bell an evangelical? Is Bell orthodox? I’ll hazard my own label for Bell, he’s part of the emergent church movement … Continue reading →

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The Singularity of Jesus and his claim for universality

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

Wrote this as a response to Bont on CiC who wrote a response to Tim Keller’s book “The King’s Cross”. I’ve been preaching through Luke for a couple of years now. I’ve really enjoyed staying with one book for a … Continue reading →

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City Center vs. Inner City ministry, a few thoughts

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

Had a good time today spending time with some city center ministry guys. My introduction to city center ministry was through Tim Keller’s work at Redeemer Pres. in NYC and part of me immediately fell in love with it when … Continue reading →

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Politics and Culture blog post by Tim Keller

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

Wonderful Piece: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2010/12/03/politics-and-culture/ Here’s a paragraph from it. Hunter argues that ressentiment–”a narrative of injury”–has now come to define American political discourse. Both conservatives and liberals make their sense of injury central to their identity, and therefore in each election cycle … Continue reading →

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God’s Gentleness, Patience and Silence as necessary precursors for his intimacy with us.

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

God’s Gentleness, Patience and Silence as necessary precursors for his intimacy with us. In Chuck De Groat’s wonderful piece on singleness in the church he highlights a very foundational yet too-little-known truth that safety is more important than we know. … Continue reading →

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Self-righteousness

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

One of my favorite Tim Keller sermons is one on Romans 7 entitled Splitness where he makes extensive use of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Here is the part of the book … Continue reading →

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Is the Tower of Babel story an urban vs. nature story?

Posted on December 23, 2009 by

This is from a discussion on CRC-Voices that wandered into the urban vs. rural conflict. Are cities evil? Keller got mentioned so that’s how he got into the argument. Keller inherits the urban ministry work done by Westminster East and … Continue reading →

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What helps me to NOT believe the world is flat

Posted on December 18, 2009 by

I wrote this for a friend at Calvin-in-Common who was sharing how he listens to Handel’s Messiah with longing. He loves the music but has come to doubt the texts it is built upon. Tolkien is one of my Christmas … Continue reading →

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Revelation 17: The Beast Consumes the Whore, where the relational polarity of the age of decay always leads

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

I’ve been working through the book of Revelation for quite a while now in our Adult Sunday School class. This week we talked about the vision in Revelation 17 of the whore of Babylon and her relationship with the beast. … Continue reading →

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Do you (like me) presume your god to be less complex than the people you can't get along with?

Posted on December 1, 2009 by

Today I listened to one of Tim Keller’s older sermons from the free group recently released on God our Father. Early in the sermon he critiques us as reducing God to a cartoon character, a one dimensional being. He makes … Continue reading →

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