A Vision for Culture-Making

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How does the gospel affect your work? We’re in a series where we’re asking, “What happens when you take the gospel, the basic message of Jesus Christ, out of the church and into the world?” One of the things that happens is it affects the way in which you do your work. And there’s no way to see the Christian understanding of work without going to Genesis 1, 2, and 3. I’d like to show you three things Genesis tells us about your work: 1) it gives you a vision for work, 2) it gives you guardrails for your work, and 3) it gives you a power to do your work. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 10, 2010. Series: The Gospel and the World. Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28; 2:2-17. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gospel in Life podcast. What if the gospel didn't just shape your private life,
0:10.1	but transformed the way you show up in the world? One of the most visible places that would play out
0:15.6	is in your work. Join us as Tim Keller teaches on how the gospel reshapes the way we approach our jobs.
0:22.2	After you listen to today's teaching, we invite you to go online to gospelonlife.com and sign up for our email updates.
0:29.3	When you sign up, you'll receive our quarterly journal and other valuable gospel-centered resources.
0:34.4	Subscribe today at gospelandlife.com.
0:43.5	Thank you. resources. Subscribe today at gospel and life.com. This week's reading is from Genesis 1 and 2.
0:49.3	Then God said, let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea
0:57.5	and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move
1:05.6	along the ground. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created
1:16.3	them. God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and increase in numbers, fill the earth and subdue it, rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air,
1:31.1	and over every living creature that moves on the ground.
1:37.4	By the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing,
1:41.5	so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day
1:48.1	and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
1:55.6	This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
2:07.6	When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent
2:13.1	rain on the earth, and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and
2:18.7	watered the whole surface of the ground. The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground
2:24.9	and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed.
2:40.8	And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that were pleasing
2:46.0	to the eye and good for food.
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