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Growth
The Theology of the Cross and Walking with a Limp
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Keller warns us against becoming Martin Luther's "theologians of glory" and uses the story of Jacob's wrestling for blessings to show how, as David Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, "all Christians who have true joy also limp."
Tim Keller explores how God sacrifices himself for the weak and works through suffering in the lives of believers. He argues that true Christian joy comes from wrestling with God like Jacob, receiving blessings through the cross rather than through idols.
Our power: spirit-filled living
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Tim Keller uses the metaphor of an acorn to illustrate the nature of God's power to shape us. An acorn can break concrete and yield an entire forest, but its power is through slow change. God uses magic acorns, not magic bullets.
A sermon on 2 Peter 1:3–11, preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in 2014, on spiritual growth as the work of the Holy Spirit rather than willpower: growth that is possible, gradual, essential, and practical.
