There couldn’t be a more relevant topic than faithfulness—a word that means honesty, integrity, and truthfulness. Americans’ trust of their institutions—business, government, church—is at an all-time low. All the studies show that. There’s a sense th...
How do you talk about kindness? Depending on the context, the Greek word can be translated as fitting, pleasing, honest, or compassionate. How do you talk about a word with that kind of lexical range? The answer is you can’t do it abstractly. You hav...
If you’ve ever read a translation like the King James Version, you know when you get to the word “patience,” the older English translation will use the word “longsuffering.” This is because the Greek word for patience literally means to suffer a long...
There’s a difference between controlling or suppressing the natural self-centeredness and insecurity of the heart through willpower and seeing it permanently changed through the power of the Holy Spirit. In Galatians 5, there’s a list of the traits o...
How do you know whether you’re just trying to be good, or whether the Holy Spirit has really brought transformation into your life? The way to know is to look at what’s called the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5. There’s a whole set of characteri...
Almost all of us have parts of our lives we really want to see changed, but change is really hard. And it’s very possible to mistake a morally restrained heart for a supernaturally changed heart. If you squeeze a rubber ball and then take your hand...
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 14, 1999. Series: What’s Really Wrong with the World. Scripture: Isaiah 49:8-21. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, bo...
We’ve lost connection with part of what the Bible teaches about sin: that God gets angry at sin. And I’m here to tell you that losing that is a bad thing. In fact, I’ll go this far: you need an angry God. If you don’t believe in an angry God, a reall...
When people in the West were faced with the atrocities of World War II, the culture’s prevailing optimistic views of human nature were devastated. Two questions kept coming up: what’s wrong with us that we’re capable of this, and what are we going to...
In Isaiah 61, we have one of the great prophecies about the Messiah. It tells us the Messiah is going to deal with the problems of life—and that shows us something about sin. Sin is not just breaking God’s scale and breaking God’s heart; it’s also b...
