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Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture

Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

Timothy Keller

Heart, Sound, Adults

Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.74, Harper Collins

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

Timothy Keller

Heart, Attention, Facts

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.65, Penguin

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

Timothy Keller

Heart, Ambition

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

Timothy Keller

Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

"Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions".

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

Timothy Keller

Heart, Mind, Settling

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.103, Penguin

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

Timothy Keller

Heart, Suicidal, Self

Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.

Timothy Keller

Heart, Mean, Commitment

It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

Timothy Keller

Christian, Believe, Heart

"Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".