Marriage as Friendship

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Marriage is a cosmic friendship, a spiritual friendship, a friendship with eternal dimensions. Marriage is not romance garnished with friendship. Rather, biblically, marriage is friendship garnished with romance. If you’re going to marry somebody, you should marry someone who is now or has the potential to be your very best friend. But friendship is not just a feeling of affection. Friendship is a particular form of love, and it has a structure. The structure of friendship is a deep oneness that comes from two people journeying together toward a common horizon. Let’s look now at 1) the common horizon, 2) how you get to that horizon, and 3) the implications of journeying together toward that horizon. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 15, 1991. Series: Marriage. Scripture: Ephesians 5:22-33. Today's podcast episode 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	What's the greatest enemy to any marriage?
0:06.2	In patience, criticism, boredom, Tim Keller argues that self-centeredness is the biggest
0:12.1	problem in any marriage, and that all other problems come from that.
0:16.5	Listen as Dr. Keller explores how the gospel frees us from selfishness to love, serve,
0:21.3	and bear with our spouses.
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0:37.7	Subscribe today at gospelandlife.com.
0:40.8	I feel soberness tonight because we have a very interesting church.
0:45.5	It's really, as some of you realize, that have been around for a while, it's an interlocking
0:51.2	chain link fence of small churches, and there's great vines.
0:55.0	So a lot of you don't know Donna at all or Jerry, but we prayed tonight because they
1:00.0	were evening redeemerites, if there's such a thing.
1:04.0	Evening redeemerites, and we, what was a lot of prayer for Donna, visited in the hospital
1:09.3	and so it's a shock for a young and sweet spirit to pass on like that.
1:17.4	You know, I guess once you break into your thirties, you begin to actually lose friends.
1:22.2	It gets worse and worse and worse.
1:25.4	Tonight at the 4 o'clock service, Chris Sparry sang a song that means a lot to me because
1:29.5	it was a favorite song of a friend of mine who died when he was 31.
1:33.0	A wonderful man of God, a tremendous future, two little children.
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