Tag
Wisdom
Praying Through Our Pain
80% Amen5 ratings
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.
Praying Through Doubt
100% Amen5 ratings
Tim Mackie opened up Psalm 73 for me with an excellent bit on "deconstructing doubt".
Tim Mackie teaches on Psalm 73, exploring how to pray through doubt and wrestle with questions of faith.
10 Things You Should Know About Heaven
An educational and an exceptionally encouraging explanation of the hereafter. I wasn't familiar with Dane Ortlund, but his words abound with grace and encouragement.
An article from Crossway that outlines ten key biblical truths about heaven and the future resurrection. It covers the intermediate state, the restoration of creation, the absence of suffering, resurrected bodies, and the centrality of Christ's presence in eternity.
Praying Through Our Fears
83% Amen6 ratings
This really opened something up for me in appreciating the psalms. David names fears that we can find analogues to and shows us how to hand them over to God.
Tim Mackie teaches on the Psalms as the language of prayer, focusing on how to pray through fears. The session includes a downloadable prayer book resource.
Who Can Forgive Sins [Matthew]
100% Amen5 ratings
As educational and fun as always, Tim Mackie provides historical context to elucidate the story of Jesus healing the paralytic.
Tim Mackie explores the question of who has authority to forgive sins in the Gospel of Matthew, examining the theological implications of forgiveness in Jesus's ministry and teaching.
How to Deal with Dark Times
100% Amen5 ratings
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.
Good and Evil, Wisdom and Sin
What the tree of the knowledge of good and evil reveals about wisdom and sin
Meditations on Genesis - Session 2: Why God withheld the tree (and what that teaches us about desire)
60% Amen5 ratings
Another excellent Mackie exploration/discussion, this time of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as well as the relationship between wisdom and God's word.
Tim Mackie continues his teaching on Genesis 1–3, asking why “knowing good and bad” was withheld from humans made in God's image. He contrasts receiving wisdom as a gift with seizing it on our own terms, and follows that pattern through the rest of Scripture.
Meditations on Genesis - Session 3: How Jesus becomes the human we were meant to be
100% Amen5 ratings
Another fascinating exploration of Creation vis-a-vis Jesus' baptism, temptation in the wilderness, and Sermon on the Mount.
In the final session on Genesis 1–3, Tim Mackie draws together the themes of desire, wisdom, and maturity, and shows how the New Testament presents Jesus as the faithful human who grows into wisdom rather than grasping at it.
