Today’s message comes from a series on the topic of wisdom in the book of Proverbs. What is wisdom? In 1 Kings 3, Solomon prays for wisdom, and he defines it like this. He says, “God, give me a heart that can discern right from wrong.” You migh

Receptive Grace

1 Sep 12th, 2019 43m 11s

What we’re looking at is not the moral behavior Christianity requires, and which to a great degree other religions require, but what we’re looking at is the supernaturally changed heart–the traits or characteristics of a new heart that only the

Treasures

1 1 Mar 24th, 2021 35m 51s

We continue to look at the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ outline of what he wants his people to live like in the world. Put another way, Jesus says here that if we take the essential message of the Christian faith, the gospel, and actually live i

Death and the Christian Hope

Apr 7th, 2023 37m 50s

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that no matter who you are, there’s a lot of death in your future.If you look around, you look at your loved ones, you look at your family, you look at your friends. Either you will face death yo

Christmas Peace

1 Dec 25th, 2022 36m 43s

Of all the passages that are read at Christmas, Luke 2 is perhaps the most famous. And in this most famous passage, the most famous word is peace. What is Christmas all about? Peace on earth. When Jesus Christ was born as a baby, he was born

Moses’ Prayer for God

1 1 Jan 7th, 2022 35m 50s

We are looking at a series of case studies of prayer and spiritual encounters we find in the Bible. This message explores maybe one of the most famous and also one of the most astonishing prayers and answers in the Bible — an encounter between

Forgiveness

1 1 Jul 9th, 2021 41m 5s

Today’s sermon comes from a series on the life of Jesus described in the gospel of Luke. As Jesus is on the road to Jerusalem described in the middle of Luke, Jesus gives us instruction for how to be a disciple. In today’s passage in Luke 17, J

Three Ways to Live

1 Mar 29th, 2021 39m 44s

We’ve come to the end of the Sermon on the Mount. It would be very profitable if we went through and took each of these metaphors Jesus ends the sermon with. You notice there are always two. There are two gates. There are two roads. There are t

A People Under the Word

1 Feb 3rd, 2021 42m 31s

The book of James is a very practical book that gives us clear direction on how to live the Christian life. It asks these questions, “If you have had an encounter with God through belief in Christ, what will your life look like on the ground? H

Christmas Peace

1 Dec 25th, 2020 36m 59s

This sermon was preached by Rev. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on December 22, 1997. Series "The Real Jesus Part 2; His Life". Scripture: Luke 2:10-14.Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all serm

Praying Our Doubts

1 Nov 20th, 2020 44m 59s

Psalms are not about so much lofty, high doctrine as they are about how the human heart works, particularly human feelings. The anger, fear, hostility, rawness, and white heat of emotions expressed in the psalms really just disturb people today

Worship

1 Nov 18th, 2020 46m 59s

We all have troubles in life. How do we face troubles with peace, with rest, with equilibrium? I’ve come to realize it’s not mainly through petitionary prayer. Of course the Bible is filled with petition, where you go to God, and you make your

Praying Our Doubts

1 Jul 20th, 2020 44m 59s

The Psalms are not so much about lofty, high doctrine as they are about how the human heart works, the deep recesses of the motives and emotions of the human heart. And what we’re now going to look at in Psalm 73 is doubt. Doubt always masque

Miserable Comforters

1 May 8th, 2020 36m 19s

How do you get through the inevitable suffering that will come to you? The answer is comfort. A shock absorber system in a car doesn’t eliminate the bumps in the road, but it keeps the car from being shaken into pieces by the bumps. You have to

Mary Meets Jesus

1 Apr 15th, 2020 41m 32s

We’re going through the life of Jesus, and now we’re coming to all of the appearances Jesus made after he was risen from the dead. This is the first of the accounts, the account of Mary Magdalene meeting Jesus. She’s the first person the risen

Christian Experience and Counterfeit

1 Jan 28th, 2020 47m 33s

Do you know how often Jesus Christ says, “You may be fake. You may be bogus. You may be counterfeit?” Paul likewise says, “Examine yourself to see if you’re in the faith. Jesus tells very clearly here in these two agricultural parables that the

Finding our Identity in Christ (Part 1)

1 Jan 1st, 2020 40m 17s

Faith is finding your identity in Christ. But how do you do that? What we’re going to do is look at what it means to live by faith.This sermon was preached by Rev. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 29, 1989. Series "Gro

Love and the Future of God

1 Sep 24th, 2019 44m 28s

We’ve been looking at the ways in which an experience of the grace of God creates a new inward character and a new interior character of the heart. We now come to the end of the series and return to the same passage on which we started, 1 Corin

Living Grace

1 Sep 20th, 2019 45m 40s

Paul, in 1 Corinthians 13, said it is possible to live a completely ethical life without any love at the root of it, but rather, fear, pride and power. What we’re doing is we’re taking a look at the traits of a life that’s not just morally rest

Scattering Gathers; Gathering Scatters

1 Jul 17th, 2019 41m 45s

Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do in the great majority of life situations the moral rules don’t address. One of the areas where you will have a mess of a life if you only follow the rules and don’t have wisdom is the area of money.Peopl

An Immigrant's Courage

Feb 9th, 2017

Ruth is a story of redeemers. Ruth teaches us that friendships can change the world (as with Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer), and that we can and must reach across spiritual and cultural barriers to do so (as with Ruth, the hidden redeemer). Both B

Rejecting the Real Jesus

1 Jun 16th, 2016

Why do so many people disbelieve Christianity and reject the message of Jesus Christ? The underlying problem is that we do not want to give up control over our lives and have God be our ultimate authority. To overcome unbelief we must see our n

War Between Your Selves (Part 1)

May 19th, 2016

Everyone has a war within themselves. We all want to live according to a high moral code, but none of us can meet the demands of our moral code. The reason for this is that inside of ourselves there is a desire for evil as well as a desire for

Justified by Faith

May 25th, 2012

Justification is not merely an abstract theological concept. Rather, it is the sense of approval and belonging that every person desires. Justification is not only that we have our sins forgiven, but that in God’s eyes we are given Jesus’ perfe

The Bible and History

2 1 Jun 2nd, 2021 34m 28s

There’s nothing more foundational to who you are as a Christian than how you regard the Bible itself. How do you approach the Bible? How do you understand the Bible? These are fundamental questions to everything else you do as a Christian.Tod