The Search for Identity

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to building up identity and self-esteem, I’m afraid Americans are very pragmatic—and our pragmatism gets to us. Our books and articles say if you want self-esteem, you should lose weight, change your friends, switch your career, and so on. But nobody asks why. They don’t like to think about the underlying theory. It’s important to understand that there are certain reigning theories of identity formation. Unless you recognize them and analyze them, you’ll just pick them up like a virus. Let’s divide our inquiry into two parts: 1) what the world says is the way to find out who you are and 2) what the Bible says is the way to find out who you are. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 10, 1993. Series: Modern Problems; Ancient Solutions. Scripture: Psalm 8. 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. Our culture places so much faith in
0:07.8	empirical reason, technology, and personal experience that it's easy to
0:12.1	wonder to something as old as Christianity and personal experience that it's easy to wonder,
0:13.0	does something as old as Christianity
0:15.0	have any relevance to the problems of modern life?
0:18.2	This month, Tim Keller invites us
0:20.1	to consider how Christianity is more relevant than ever in offering answers to the deepest
0:25.5	longings of our hearts. I like to read to you from Psalm 8.
0:39.0	Oh Lord, Our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have set your glory above the heavens.
0:46.0	From the lips of children and infants you have ordained to praise because of your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger.
0:53.0	When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place,
0:58.0	what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
1:05.5	You made him a little lower than the angels, the heavenly beings, and crowned him with glory
1:10.4	in honor.
1:11.4	You made him ruler over the works of your hands. You put everything under his
1:14.6	feet. All flocks and herds and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fish of the
1:19.6	sea and all that swim, the paths of the seas.
1:24.3	O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
1:32.0	Let's pray. Father, be with us. This is such a marvelous and thrilling part of your
1:39.7	word and we ask that you'd help us to understand it, not simply in a cognitive way.
1:45.0	We pray that you'd help us to understand it through our hearts and understand it so well that it affects the way we think and move and live and speak and have our being.
1:56.2	And we pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
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