Intro by Kathy Keller:
Tim wrote this article in January of 2023 a few months before his death, but it was never published anywhere. As Christians struggle to make sense of today’s political landscape, I believe this article can be useful in helping readers think through the pitfalls and challenges of keeping one’s faith and politics in the right order.
Speaker/Author: Tim Keller
A Political Case Study: Four Americas, Ideologies & Idolatries (Part 1)
George Packer wrote an article in The Atlantic (“How America Fractured into Four Parts,” July/August 2021) which outlines four recent U.S. political movements that employ moral visions of a good society. He concludes that they are all inadequate and that he does not want to live in any of the four “Americas” that the political movements are seeking to establish.
Manna and Money
In the wilderness God provided for the material needs of the children of Israel with manna. Every morning the manna appeared on the ground and the Israelites went out to get it with the following instruction: “Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent. The Israelites did as they were told: some gathered much, some little.”
SIN! (Do I Have Your Attention?)
What then is the biblical view of sin? Sin is a distortion and dislocation of the heart from its true center in God (Romans 1:21-25). This is expressed in a basic motive for all human life—the heart desire of every person to be his or her own Savior and Lord.
This article was originally written for the Redeemer Report in 2003.
Isaiah and the Cost of Security
“The year that King Uzziah died,” things looked bleak from Isaiah’s point of view. Uzziah had died alienated from God. And just a few years before, in 745 B.C., the ruthless imperialist Tiglath-Pileser III had taken the throne of Assyria and begun a campaign of terror and conquest. Israel was in his path. The king was dead and the kingdom of Israel looked like it would be swept away.
Go Forward in Love: A Year of Daily Readings from Timothy Keller
The Gospel on the Move
The Resurrection and Christian Mission
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.
How Should Christians Speak in Public?
U.S. culture moved from a Positive view of Christianity to a Neutral view and now to a Negative view of it. Newbigin stressed that churches were declining because they continued to speak and minister as if this was a Christendom culture — and it is not.
Reflections on Faith and Politics
Over the years Tim talked with many professing Christians who had very strong political views from many perspectives. They would often be very emotional and sometimes consumed by what they perceived to be unacceptable political affiliation by their Christian sisters and brothers within our church.
