Tim Keller explains Christianity in a way that really talks directly to me. If, if I had found this brother 20 years ago I would have never left the church. 20 years ago I had a major crisis of faith and of life: my biggest question was what is the point? I’ve been struggling with this question ever since until recently. Tim is helping me see that Jesus Christ really is the way. God bless you and your family Tim.
@@elainemaldonado2932 not sure where your comment comes from but we are told not to forsake the gathering of God’s people, meaning church since we are the church. We are all broken, with different areas of brokenness. We all hurt someone at one point in life unintentionally and we don’t know what that costs someone for we are not God to see it. Seek humility and the body of Christ! God uses each other to sharpen us.
@@eradutiu The Church body is broken Nothing what it USED TO Be I never gave a tithe after I learned tithe was for the store house not the Pastor, Jesus spoke about a love gift the Lord Jesus Christ ALMIGHTY opened my eyes to so much 🙏🏼🛐💯
Pray for his wife and family who lost him recently. And to raise up pastors that follow in his great footsteps and KNOW the culture, and learn from Tim's and others works! Don't go it alone! Surround yourself and LEARN from the BEST! World standards of QUALITY are high, it should be even MORE so for Christians who work for GOD first!! ❤
TKeller --What a gifted communicator of The Word to a culture progressively going deaf to it's life- changing truth! May God be with his family, congregation, and students of his pastoral ministry.
I so wish his teachings can be heard by every human being. Thank you so much dear teacher. God bless you and take your teachings far beyond the seas. Amen.
But you can find great satisfaction in many things- but maybe that only comes once you know that God is in control and loves you- I get enjoyment from the simplest of things........
Tim Keller, excellent as always. Keeping him & his ministry lifted up to our Father through our Precious Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ. Who died & rose again to save us from our sins.. one plants & another waters, but it is always God Who gives the increase. Praying for the harvest of all the seeds planted, may the Lord protect them fm the evil one & may they be refreshed by those who are His & have been born again. Greatest thanks to Tim Keller & his faithfulness to the Lord as he bravely sets an example of going out into the world to preach the gospel and to be as Paul was.. “all things to all men, that some might be saved.” Glory to God in the Highest.. the giver of every good and perfect gift - which we can see exhibited and exercised by Keller himself. No one takes a lamp & hides it under a blanket.. let your light so shine before men. All glory to God for it is only through God & by God, that all things were created and continue to exist. Colossians 1. ❤️ Keller has an excellent way of connecting to certain audiences.. praying the Lord will give the increase. In Jesus name!
How does he know this??! This is amazing! I can understand what he is saying and it is all so true, but only because I've suffered while living a Godless life...
Highly satisfied with my family, friends, and work. Very satisfied leaving the theology of self hate and blood magic. There is no threat to your souls, folks. You are ok! Christianity is both the threat and the relief. Like a mafia boss saying “sure would be a shame if this building went up in flames.” It’s a disgusting con. Peace be with you, folks, you deserve better.
So - you are highly satisfied. If you are that 1 in 1000, how about you leave us regular humans be? So you don't believe that your satisfaction is either unusual or a self-serving falsehood? Watch the news. Give to charity so you'll notice how many need it. Read more, listen to music. Leave us ordinary mortals alone mate.
@@itsjkforreal you might be unsatisfied because you are telling other adults what to do. This is not a good approach if you are looking for satisfactory social interactions. Or keep it up 👍🏼 up to you.
@@flipdog74 don’t be. Christian theology has become crystal clear to me. I wish you clarity of mind, and humanity of purpose. Our temporary existence makes it sweeter, nothing wrong with dirt.
suffering, cause God's love is long-suffering not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentence. it gives men time to change their minds
I admire Tim Keller greatly. And while I agree with his major thesis here, I must take issue with his occasion to use the subject of suicide as a vehicle to make his point about the ultimate vanity of life, a point that can be made in many other equally effective ways, but ways that aren't nearly as irresponsible. Suicide is a very prevalent occurrence, but this fact is obfuscated by the cultural shame it engenders in the survivors and in the societies who collectively prefer to pretend that it isn't happening, or that it isn't happening to the degree that it really is. For example, in America, gun related death is a well known phenomenon, and this is a fact people from around the world are aware. But few people seem to realize that roughly 65% of those deaths are suicides. America is a very big place which makes the numbers seem huge. And yet suicide happens in every country, and it is a leading cause of death in all of them. So, to casually mention it - and suggest that our loving savior chuckles with delight when we contemplate such a thing is in my estimation a profoundly offensive statement, regardless of how closely parallel the analogy is to any abstract theological ideations. Further, making comments like this in public is extremely dangerous because the mere suggestion of suicide can trigger suicidal acts in certain circumstances, such as when uttered by a perceived authority figure and overheard by a vulnerable and unstable individual. Making a theological point is simply not worth the risk. The risk is very real, and the cost is far too high. And if anyone refuses to count the cost whenever he builds anything, then eventually his construction will come tumbling down. Please try to be more careful next time Mr. Keller..
I have shared your you tube interview with Teachers in Toronto Ontario hopefully you will do well with your books. Word on the street gets around. A book fair also in Toronto, Word on the street. Mostly authors and publishers
This is terrifying. If what he says is true you have to dethrone everything else in your life. This is not just an opinion or viewpoint, the stakes are far to high. Either you agree and enter a state of profound loss of earthly divinity, or you brush it off as interesting.
Bernardus Saayman -It is terrifying if there's no solution. Meaninglessness is scary. I would recommend listening to his sermon "War Between Your Selves", the first part, if you are interested in some more ideas about this.
I think you need to take one step at a time. This isn’t an entrance exam for happiness. Firstly, it’s finding meaning and a true relationship with your maker. A profound commitment to Following God. That’s the foundation upon which you then can reorder your loves/priorities in life.
He says we can't live without them, but as JS Mill might say, the majority of the human race have had to live without some or all of meaning, satisfaction etc for all of history. It might be better to say that these are the things necessary for existence to be well experienced.
@@mindonthingsabove I suppose I agree with you. I am a Christian, but that itself hasn't made me happy in this life. It has cut the edge off of my existential nihilism though (I no longer think 'nothing means anything') and gives me the possibility of hope, so definitely an improvement.
John 6:26-29 [26]Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. [27]Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. [28]Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? [29]Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Haha, good one. Kinda philosophical. Pride is selfish, therefore anti-love. Love hates pride. God is love by nature. Love flows out from His nature into creation. But not human distortion of love. The true and pure love is from His very nature. We wouldn't know love, apart from Him.
God is Not all loving. The definition of love is giving another what they need as far as it’s possible within freewill. You need to suffer to break free of selfishness. Hell is the place for those who don’t want to be with God AND to act like God: unselfish. You hate God. And love your false idea of who god is
Excuse me, yes you CAN PROVE Christianity 100% 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt proof that would stand up in a court of law Perhaps you've heard of THE CASE FOR CHRIST a Best Seller that went on to be made i to a mo ie. It's the true story of someone researching just that question...IS Christ and Christianity True...are there any proofs
Value achievement produces a feeling of happiness IF rational values are achieves via one's virtues, with integrity (loyalty to the truth). The older we get, the more that sense of happiness-eudaemonia-grows and refines itself, through adversity, failure, success and ultimately, getting wiser and better at living life. This guy is selling you the WRONG idea. His pitch to the moral relativist nihilists is that we can never actually be satisfied, and/or happy. Well, he is right about satisfaction. MAN is a value achiever. He is never satisfied since he's always in the process of setting new goals and pursuing them. True enlightenment and happiness IS possible to man on this earth. Read Mortimer Adler's Six Great Ideas and other Aristotelian philosophers.
