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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Friends – What Good Are They? (Open Forum)

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

4.815K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In our times, friendship is relatively ignored. Every other kind of love, every other kind of relationship is a hot topic. Everybody is writing about romance or family, while friendship is seen as uninteresting. And yet, friendship is absolutely vital. Do you understand how crucial it is to make, find, maintain, and develop friendships?  Let me just ask three questions: 1) why is friendship so neglected today? 2) why is it so vitally important and crucial? and 3) how can the resources of the Christian faith help us understand friendship and galvanize, energize and recover friendship? This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 27, 1997. Series: Redeemer Open Forums.  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 Gospel in Life.

0:05.1

This month, we've selected a special set of sermons and talks from across the years that Tim Keller preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

0:13.5

This month's messages highlight themes like rest, idolatry, and integrating our faith with our work.

0:19.2

Each one rooted in the truth that the gospel truly changes everything.

0:30.5

One of the things I told my wife I've done, I did tonight that I've never done before,

0:34.9

and she can't wait to find out what it was.

0:38.1

I'm preparing for a talk is I did a web search today at 4 o'clock to test a theory.

0:47.3

One of the things that I knew almost immediately and sort of intuitive, that when we do an open forum,

0:52.9

we choose a theme that there's great interest in.

0:56.3

So what are some of the ones we've done in the past?

0:58.5

We've done sex, love, freedom, identity.

1:04.3

And in every case, what we're doing is we're playing on the popularity of it.

1:08.6

People say, yeah, yeah, I want to, what is that?

1:12.4

I want to know about that.

1:14.1

But friendship.

1:17.3

Friendship is not all that interesting.

1:19.7

Now, how do I know that?

1:21.4

Because not only did I immediately look, I have files.

1:24.6

You know, I keep magazines, I keep articles, I keep clippings, I go to the library.

1:30.1

I just, I like that.

1:32.1

And as soon as I started looking for friendship, articles on friendship, you know, think of all the magazines you've seen recently that have had sort of special issues on sexuality or on love or on identity or on freedom

1:48.1

or on, you know, is there truth and is their morality, all the other things that we've done

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