If you don’t learn to love people across the barriers of ethnicity, language, and culture, and if you don’t recognize the image of God in those he has recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life, heaven might be an uncomfortable place for you.
The resurrection of Christ assures us that God will redeem not just souls but bodies, and will bring about a new heavens and new earth. As the risen Christ, he stands not just with us in our present time, but he waits at the end of history to heal and renew everything.
Lavonas Troupe had lived in Chicago his whole life. His dad left when he was young, and his mom used drugs. He and his siblings grew up in poverty. He’d been told he would have three vocational choices when he got older: policeman, firefighter or criminal. His choice disappeared that day on the basketball court.
On January 7th, 2025, our family and most of our community lost our homes in the Palisades fire. The visible and invisible losses of this circumstance feel endless. Overnight our friends and neighbors scattered to find shelter, and our life and daily rhythms were gone.
Nothing is more important than a solid understanding of what happened on the cross.
It is unlikely that Redeemer City to City would exist today without the sermon ministry we now call Gospel in Life. Beginning in the early 1990s, Tim Keller’s Sunday sermons were recorded and distributed on cassette tapes. By the middle of the decade, Redeemer was shipping a staggering 25,000 tapes per year to 32 states and 17 countries.
It’s not uncommon to hear a sports announcer talk about one great player making an incredible play that was a game changer. And that play led to the team’s victory. In the whole entire history of humanity there is one game changer that is indisputable both historically and spiritually. It’s the resurrection of Jesus Christ. His death and resurrection literally changed history.
This Month's Featured Book
In Christ, our living redeemer, we have the greatest resource for facing life’s challenges — his resurrection! In this book, Dr. Keller invites you to consider that the resurrection not only happened as a historical fact, but that through it, Jesus invites you to experience a living hope for today and the future.
