Gospel in Life

What is prayer really about? Is it to get things? Is it to get inner peace? What is prayer about? Jesus says it’s to experience the friendship of God and to experience the lordship of God out of a realization of our sonship with God. – @timkellernyc Sermon, Jesus' Model of…

Jesus did not say to anybody, “Watch out! You might be committing adultery.” If you’re committing adultery, you know you’re committing adultery. You don’t say, “Oh, you’re not my wife.” It doesn’t happen, but Jesus has to say, “Watch out! You might be greedy,” because greed hides…

Materialism is an inordinate desire or dependence on money and material things. Materialism has the peculiar effect of blinding you spiritually, of distorting the way you see things. It has a power over the way you see everything. – @timkellernyc Sermon, Treasure vs. Money…

From somebody who’s happily married, let me just tell you: It’s never enough. Other happily married people will tell you, even when your marriage is great it’s not what will satisfy your soul all the way to the bottom. There’s only one kiss that will. There’s only one set of arms…

The Bible does not equate lust with sexual desire. It likes sexual desire. God invented sexual desire. The Bible does not say, “Squelch your passions,” nor does it say, “Follow your passions.” It says, “Channel them.” – @timkellernyc Sermon, "Love, Lust and Liberation"…

God loves you always. He loves you unconditionally. He died for you while you were an enemy. That means he would do anything for you. He has done anything for you. –@timkellernyc Sermon, Integrity gospelinlife.com/podcast

Whether you believe in God or not, whether you believe in sin or not, there’s still a voice that calls you a fool, that calls you a coward, that makes you feel condemned. You’re spending all of your life basically trying to deal with that voice, trying to shut it up, and…

Your neighbor, Jesus says, is anybody you share God’s green earth with. Do you know your neighbors? “Anybody there,” Jesus Christ says, “you need to treat as if they were me.” Find them. Look for deliberate reasons to be for the common good of your neighborhood. – @timkellernyc

Your neighbor, Jesus says, is anybody you share God’s green earth with. So if you’re a Christian, look around your neighborhood. Do you know your neighbors? “Anybody there,” Jesus Christ says, “you need to treat as if they were me.” Find them. Look for deliberate reasons to be…

The thing that differentiates a Christian from both the religious and irreligious is their attitude toward people who are deeply different than they are. Do you act superior to them? Or the people who come against you, do you pay them back? Or do you forgive them and serve them…

Do you understand the Lord of heaven and earth is your Father, that you’ve been adopted by grace, and that in spite of everything you are, you’re rich in him? – @timkellernyc Sermon, Love in the Neighborhood gospelinlife.com/podcast

When you deal with concrete trouble, concrete trials, real death coming at you—unless you believe in a real, physical, literal historical resurrection, you’re not going to be any different. You’re not going to be able to handle real trouble, unless you believe in a real…

We must confront these three questions about Jesus’ resurrection: 1) Did it happen? 2) What did it accomplish? 3) What should we do about it? Listen to @timkellernyc's "Let Nothing Move You" on gospelinlife.com/podcast.

Music can tell the most hopeless heart there’s hope, the most meaningless heart there’s meaning. – @timkellernyc "Work and Grace: The Spiritual Music of John Coltrane" gospelinlife.com/podcast

What can the music of John Coltrane tell us about the relationship of art to God, and of our own work to God? Listen to @timkellernyc's "Work and Grace: The Spiritual Music of John Coltrane" gospelinlife.com/podcast

The believer is someone who God looks at, and you are his pleasure. You are his beauty. He looks at you and sees a diamond. He looks at you and sees a work of art. He looks at you and his own heart is filled with delight. – @timkellernyc Sermon, The Search for Achievement

The sabbath is an act of trust. The sabbath, our rest, points to God’s work and rest, which means you’re not God—he is. – @timkellernyc Sermon, Work and Rest gospelinlife.com/podcast

Under the physical rest is a need for deep spiritual rest. – @timkellernyc Sermon, Work and Rest gospelinlife.com/podcast

Work has been cursed, but it’s not a curse. – @timkellernyc Sermon, Work Wholeheartedly gospelinlife.com/podcast

When someone says you can't bring your moral judgments into the classroom, you have to realize everybody's already doing that. – @timkellernyc "Educators Forum" gospellinlife.com/podcast