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Patience
Praying Through Our Pain
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An excellent and entertaining exploration of Psalm 22, though surprisingly with no mention of the prophetic component. This talk really clarified the nature of prayer in general and praying through pain specifically.
Tim Mackie teaches on the Psalms as a language of prayer, specifically addressing how to pray through pain. The talk explores the structure and purpose of the Psalms as a model for expressing sorrow and struggle in prayer.
How to Deal with Dark Times
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Another Keller masterpiece. God does not dismiss how suffering people speak but shows us through Psalm 88, Job, and Jesus' life and death, that He is a God of grace, and we will come forth as gold.
Tim Keller discusses Psalm 88 and how to deal with difficult seasons of life. He explores how the psalms, including expressions of desperation, reveal God's understanding and identification with human suffering.
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.
