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Tag Archives: Tim Keller
don’t confuse spiritual gifts with spiritual fruit
Spiritual gifts “are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name: speaking, encouraging, serving, evangelizing, teaching, leading, administering, counseling, discipling, organizing….Spiritual fruit are beauties of character: love, joy, peace, humility, gentleness, self-control. Spiritual gifts are … Continue reading
God’s love rubbed into your grief
“The love and hope of God…has to be rubbed into our grief, the way you have to rub salt into meat in warm climates…Your grief is going to make you bleaker and weaker or it could make you far more … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, anger, grace, grief, hope, hope and love of God, how to deal with grief, John 11, love, made tender, tears, Tim Keller
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skilled at seeing other’s weaknesses
“Why is it that we’re so skilled at remembering the other’s weakness, failure, and sin and so adept at forgetting our own? Why are we so good at seeing all the ways that another needs to be forgiven but forget … Continue reading
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Tagged appreciation, forgiveness, God's love, grace, gratitude, grief over sin, Paul Tripp, ready to forgive, remember, ridicule, self-righteousness, Tim Keller, unforgiveness
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When you start to harbor bitterness
Below-the-surface bitterness will eat you up, boil over from within you, burn you. Like fissures in the ground; like volcanoes. You must not harbor it. But if we’re not to harbor it, what are we to do? We’re to forgive. … Continue reading
freed from always noticing yourself
“Christian humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less… It is to be no longer always noticing yourself and how you are doing and how you are being treated… Humility is a byproduct of belief … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, freed, humility, self-forgetfulness, Tim Keller
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suffering with hope and courage, not bitterness and despair
“Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair.” (Tim Keller) Remember His words to you, dear Christian. Words … Continue reading
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Tagged bitterness, Christlike character, courage, despair, hope, pain, Romans 5, suffering, Tim Keller, unstoppable hope
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the purpose of the miracles
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus
Tagged broken, death, disease, healing, hunger, Jesus' miracles, miracles, natural order, purpose of miracles, The Reason for God, Tim Keller
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companionship
We were made for companionship. For tender togetherness. For moments of sweet contentment, created by and enfolded in deep relationship. We yearn to be known, to be seen through, to be accepted for who we fear we really are: To … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Faith, God
Tagged acceptance, being known, companionship, fear, fully known and truly loved, love, Matthew 11:28, redeemed ransomed adopted, relationship, Tim Keller, true love, truly loved
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ultimate, radical neighbor-love
One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” … Continue reading
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Tagged Domenico Fetti, Generous Justice, Jesus, Jesus' parables, Luke 10:25-37, parables, the good Samaritan, Tim Keller
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what you would have asked for
Pithy, precise, profound — those are the kinds of quotes God often uses to quicken and soften our hearts. A wise, couple-sentence summation of God’s truth often stills my anxious heart, or alerts me to lies I’m believing in the … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus
Tagged favorite quotes, good quote, growth in faith, pain, peace, sorrow, suffering, Tim Keller, transformed thinking, truth
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Blue hydrangeas and real hope
She burst through the door that early-summer evening and sat herself on the kitchen counter next to my dish-filled sink, bubbling over with vivid details of the hydrangeas she’d seen. Effervescent with excitement, she tried to describe the deep greens … Continue reading
A thorn to pin aside the veil
Living before medicine would have cured or medicated her symptoms, Martha Snell Nicholson was bed-ridden with intense pain for decades. In the midst of her pain, and because of it, she wrote one of the more meaningful poems I’ve read … Continue reading
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