I often get asked how I personally became acquainted with the pervasive influence of idolatry in the human heart. Like many younger ministers I worked far too many hours, never saying "no" to anyone's request for my pastoral services. When salary increases were offered to me, I turned them down. When administrative help was offered [...]
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Collin Hansen on "Counterfeit Gods"
October 16, 2009 – 9:00 AM
Christianity Today editor and author of Young, Restless and Reformed Collin Hansen has a helpful review of Tim Keller's Counterfeit Gods. Here's how Hansen begins: There is nothing like a recession to put Americans in a reflective mood. Unemployment and a devalued stock market have led many to consider whether money is the pre-eminent form [...]
Ravaged For Us
David Garner is the Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. His blurb for Tim Keller’s newest book Counterfeit Gods helped me today: Combining biblical theology with experienced surgery on the soul over the years in modern Manhattan, Pastor Tim Keller performs an M.R.I. of our hearts and graphically exposes its results… Read [...]