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Is it possible in a throwaway culture, in a society of throwaway relationships and throwaway identities to be a person who can endure? In the life of Moses, we see the secret of endurance, of someone who stands firm in the long run. Let’s look at 1) what Moses endured, and 2)

Moses knew you’re only as durable as the thing you love most. – Timothy Keller (1950-2023) Sermon, Moses and the Patience of Faith gospelinlife.com/podcast

The glory of God’s mercy is not that it devours his justice, but that it satisfies it. – Timothy Keller (1950-2023) Sermon, The Object of Faith gospelinlife.com/podcast

Here is what the great John Newton says about how to deal with opponents--people you think are wrong theologically. Read it and weep. thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-t…

If you have a God that never crosses your will and ‘feelings,’ you don’t have a God; you are your own god. You have a figment of your own imagination.

So there are two ways, not one, to be your own Savior and Lord: you can break all the moral rules and chart your own course, or you can try keeping all the external moral rules and seek to earn heaven’s favor. Both are strategies for avoiding God. Apart from Jesus Christ, every

The Hebrews writer is saying very categorically, if you are sinking, going under, how you deal with troubles is a function of what you’ve fixed your mind on. If you contemplate Jesus Christ’s enduring, you will be able to endure. – Timothy Keller (1950-2023) God With Us: In Our Suffering

For a more in-depth treatment of pain and suffering and how to handle it. buff.ly/2GC2CSg

"Tho my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me." (Ps 27:10) Here's identity not grounded in (as in the modern west) inward desires and self-validation nor in what parents and society think--but in God. This identity is stable, empowering, and non-excluding.

When you get near a baby, you can’t help but nuzzle it. You can’t help it. There’s nothing more available than a baby. For God to become a baby is to say the unbearable beauty of God, the unassailable majesty of God, and the consuming holiness of God is available. – Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

Free Tim Keller Book: buff.ly/EgUv6rP

Many say (a) Rome allowed “sexual freedom/diversity.” But (b) Christianity shut it down. But historical scholarship shows that "the popular story in which Christianity put an end to pagan freedom with the body was exposed as a caricature, at best.” (Harper, in From Shame to Sin)

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it....No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it." C.S. Lewis, Great Divorce

There is no such thing as an irreligious person, really. There is no such thing as a secular person, really. You either believe in the true God or else you are a slave to worshiping something that you treat as a god, but really isn’t. – Timothy Keller (1950-2023) Sermon, Enslaved to Non-Gods

The secular worldview (Bavinck) or imaginary (Taylor) or tradition (MacIntyre) or comprehensive doctrine (Rawls) is a concept of the world and of human nature that lacks the explanatory power it claims for itself and does not make as much sense of human life as Christianity does.

I'm pretty sure Americans haven't thought out the ramifications of this study. The percentage of religious nones worldwide is shrinking. The world is getting more religious and will have a huge impact on how we see society and each other. Get ready. buff.ly/32x2ZF7

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.