Unconditional Election: An Illustration

Here's a helpful illustration about unconditional election. You can find it in Tim Keller's commentary on Romans 8-16. D. James Kennedy offers a very helpful illustration here: “Here are five people who are planning to hold up a bank. They are friends of mine. I find out about it and I plead with them. I …

Rightly Ordered Love (Keller)

 I'm very much enjoying Tim Keller's Making Sense of God.  Here's a section I read this  morning that really resonated with me since Keller was discussing Augustine's view of love rightly ordered: You harm yourself when you love anything more than God.  How does this work? If you love your children more than you love God, …

Suffering and One Foot In Front of the Other

 For those of you who know what it means to go through a very hard trial, you probably understand sayings like this: "One day at a time," and "I'm just putting one foot in front of the other."  Trials and suffering are the mud and muck of life that slow you down, trip you up, …

Selfishness and Marriage (Keller)

It's been awhile since I've read a book on marriage with the depth and wisdom of Tim Keller's The Meaning of Marriage.  I appreciate how he talks about our culture's selfish view of marriage.  Today, many people think of marriage and romantic relationships in terms of self - what they get out of it.  Turns …

God Owes Us A Good Life?

Many people today assume that God owes them a life of health, wealth, and happiness.  Since God is good, they say, he should bless us in many ways and keep us from all harm and danger.  I appreciate Timothy Keller’s answer to this false belief. “When we stand back to consider the premise – that …