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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 23h

“Jesus did not give up his deity when he came to earth, but the 'powers and prerogatives' of his deity. This is an important distinction often missed”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Remaining sin makes believers worse than our right beliefs should make us; the image of God and common grace in non-believers makes them better than their wrong beliefs should make them”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Isn’t it much fairer if all good people (e.g. Ghandi) were saved, not just Christians? “The problem is that Christians do not believe anyone can be saved by being good ...” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need—regardless of race class & religion—is your neighbor. Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith but everyone is your neighbor” Source: Generous Justice

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The gospel doesn't compete with our deepest longings. It fulfills them” Source: The Stories We Live By

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“The Bible says Jesus suffered not that we might not suffer, but that when we suffer, trusting in his suffering, our suffering would make us like him” Source: Paul's Detour (Sermon)

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“When he confers citizenship on you, our King says, ‘You have right of access.’ The Lord of the universe is concerned about your problems. Come and pray. Come and appeal” Source: Politics of the Kingdom (Sermon)

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Habakkuk 3 is a great example of how to respond when God says something in his Word that you don't want to hear”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“In the non-West, what the Bible says about sex is welcome but what it says about forgiveness is offensive. In the West, it's the reverse. The Bible is able to critique every culture. It offers its own 'biblical critical theory'”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“To be holy means to be wholly his” Source: House of God, Part 4 (Sermon)

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an 'idol,' something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute …” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the teaching of Jesus the ultimate condemnation from the mouth of God is 'depart from Me’ Why? Isaiah 59:2: sin excludes us from God's 'face' Psalm 16:11: in God’s ‘presence’ there is fullness of joy; at His ‘right hand’ are pleasures forevermore

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshiping an idealized version of yourself”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“The minute Jesus dies on the cross, what happens? The veil that separates the Holy of Holies from the people is ripped not from bottom to top, but from top to bottom. What does this mean? He’s the temple. He is the …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

An example of a God beyond our comprehension that many modern people refuse to believe in: many people say "I can't believe God could have reasons for allowing evil and suffering that I can't think of. If I can't think of any good reasons—there can't be any” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“When we try and use guilt or pride to teach children goodness (‘you're better than that/do better’—appeal to pride, ‘you better not lie or else’—guilt), we are actually drawing them farther away”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“For years, God dwelt in the tabernacle and the temple, but nobody could live there. Even if you just came in to visit, you had to bring in an animal and put it under the sword. There had to be payment for sin or you couldn’t even visit God …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The idea of race based on skin pigment is a peculiarly modern phenomenon. But the Greeks and Romans held other tribes and cultures in contempt, they committed atrocities against them and said that some were worthy to be slaves (Aristotle). "Racism" broadly conceived isn't modern”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The only storm that can really destroy—the storm of divine justice and judgment on sin and evil—will never come upon you. Jesus bowed his head into that ultimate storm, willingly, for you …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“If we live for anything else, it leads to slavery, but when we live for God and follow his will, we find that we are … realizing our original design [nature] … [So freedom] is not the absence of constraints but it is choosing the right constraints” Source: Making Sense of God

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Whatever captures our attention eventually shapes our hearts” Source: The Stories We Live By

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“If you want to understand your own behavior, you must understand that all sin against God is grounded in a refusal to believe that God is more dedicated to our good, and more aware of what that is, than we are. We distrust God because …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“It’s in death that God says, ‘If I’m not your security, then you’ve got no security, because I’m the only thing that can’t be taken away from you. I will hold you in my everlasting arms. Every other set of arms will fail you, but I will never fail you.’ Smelling salts are …” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lord, I worry because I forget your wisdom I resent because I forget your mercy I covet because I forget your beauty I sin because I forget your holiness I fear because I forget your sovereignty You always remember me Help me to remember you Amen

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“As Christ became completely liable for everything you’ve ever done, the moment you believe in Christ as Savior, you become completely liable to everything he has done” Source: Brought Near, Part 2 (Sermon)

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“There are a lot of people who avoid Jesus by being good. If you’re good, if you’re better than anybody else, if you’re more conscientious, if you’re more kind, if you’re more loving, if you’re more moral, if you’re more law-abiding, …” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief …” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of what God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want …” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Contemporary people tend to examine the Bible looking for things they can’t accept; but Christians should reverse that, allowing the Bible to examine us, looking for things God can’t accept”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“When you say, ‘Doctrine doesn’t matter; what matters is that you live a good life,’ that is a doctrine. It is called the doctrine of salvation by your works rather than by grace”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“When you come to Christ, you must drop your conditions. You have to give up the right to say, ‘I will obey you if ___. I will do this if ___.’ As soon as you say, ‘I will obey you if,’ that is not obedience at all. You are saying: ‘You are my adviser, not my Lord …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Everything in the Hebrew worldview militated against the idea that a human being could be God. Jews would not even pronounce the name ‘Yahweh’ nor spell it. And yet Jesus Christ—by his life, by his claims, and by his resurrection—convinced …” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Jesus is one of the very few persons in history who founded a great world religion or who, like Plato or Aristotle, has set the course of human thought and life for centuries. Jesus is in that tiny, select group …” 1/3

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“If the suffering Jesus endured did not make him give up on us, nothing will”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“The humanistic moral values of secularism are not the deliverances of scientific reasoning, but have come down to us from older times … they have a theological history. And modern people hold them by faith alone”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Christian communicators must show that we remember (or at least understand) very well what it is like not to believe”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Before we're workers, we're beloved children” Source: The Stories We Live By

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Every time you expound a Bible text, you are not finished unless you demonstrate how it shows us that we cannot save ourselves and that only Jesus can”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“Preaching is not only explaining the text but also using it to engage the heart. I often see preachers giving so much time to the first task that they put little thought and ingenuity into the second”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Expository preaching should provide the main diet of preaching for a Christian community … [It] is the best method for displaying and conveying your conviction that the whole Bible is true. This approach testifies that you believe …” 1/2

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“A good sermon is not like a club that beats upon the will but like a sword that cuts to the heart”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Mercy isn’t just the job of the Christian. Mercy is the mark of the Christian”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“We know God will answer us when we call because one terrible day he did not answer Jesus when he called … Jesus’ prayers were given the rejection that we sinners merit so that our prayers could have the reception that he merits”

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Tim Keller @timkellerdaily.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"The sign of true, growing, gospel disciples is their gentleness”

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