Speaker/Author: Tim Keller

The First Sermon

The First Sermon

Acts chapter 2 describes the first “sermon” by the official church. In this first sermon, the Apostle Peter appeals to the messianic psalm, Psalm 110. How is it that this message and psalm provoked his first century Jewish audience to such a convicted response? What was the key difference that set apart Christianity from the Jewish religion? This sermon unravels Acts 2 expounding on the mind, grace, heart and life.

The Descent of the Spirit

The Descent of the Spirit

Acts chapter 2 records the birth of the church at Pentecost. What was behind this event that so powerfully propelled the church into existence? What crucial role did the Holy Spirit play in all of this? What is the significance of the gospel being spoken in so many different tongues and languages? This text will take us through an outside power, inner wonder, universal message, and a new man off the mountain.

Acts: The Gospel in the City

Acts: The Gospel in the City

Luke follows up his account of the life of Christ with the story of how the earliest Christians penetrated the culture of their day with the transforming power of the gospel. Something about the Christian community was so attractively different that the Graeco- Roman culture in which they lived was eventually converted. These sermons explore the significance of the events Luke highlighted as the radiance of the gospel began to illuminate the first century Mediterranean world.

Hospitality and God’s Grace

Hospitality and God’s Grace

The Gospels include many accounts of Jesus’ eating with others. In Luke chapter 14, Jesus tells a parable of a feast. What is it in his teaching that contradicts everything we know about modern hospitality? Just what kind of hospitality is Jesus calling us to do? What was so shocking regarding the invited guests in Jesus’ parable? The text and sermon unwrap the inner ring, the open home, and the pauper’s feast.

This Month's Featured Book

Meeting Jesus Changes Everything!

In this book, Tim Keller explores how the interactions Jesus had with people were transformative for them, and how these encounters are still able to address the big questions and doubts about life that each of us have today.