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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Gospel and Life. |
0:05.8 | Are you struggling to find meaning and purpose in your work? |
0:09.5 | We spend much of our lives at our jobs, but our work can often be the area where we feel |
0:14.0 | the most frustration and futility in our lives. |
0:17.5 | Today on the podcast, Tim Keller helps us understand how the gospel frees us to have hope and joy in our vocations. |
0:32.5 | This isn't a sermon with a nice, with a climax, you know, moving on. |
0:36.7 | This is a string of random thoughts. |
0:38.1 | It's possible you'll get more out of the questions and answers afterwards than whatever |
0:41.9 | I tell you about now. |
0:43.1 | But I think you need to know, if you're Christian, what is the rationale for being an actor? |
0:49.2 | You know, why should Christians be actors? |
0:50.8 | Why should Christians be actors? |
0:52.8 | What do actors do, of any worth from a Christian |
0:56.3 | point of view? That's what I want to talk about. So that's why I mean I have a series of |
1:00.9 | random thoughts on that. But let me start by getting you something out of the New York Times. |
1:06.2 | I was intrigued by the fact that Bill T. Jones, the art, the dancer and choreographer, etc., has a new piece that he's putting on based on Flannery O'Connor's, one of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. |
1:19.0 | Now, what's interesting is, here's Bill T. Jones. He says, this is his interview. He says, I'm angry as hell at the Bush administration. I'm not pleased with the |
1:28.0 | fundamentalist leanings in this country. And he's sort of ranting and raging as a sort of a normal, |
1:33.3 | typical New York secular liberal person. However, he was utterly entranced with Flannery O'Connor's |
1:40.7 | short stories. And he comes right out and says, and he's just overwhelmed. He says, they're the best short stories. And he comes right out and says, he's just overwhelmed. |
1:44.7 | He says, they're the best short stories. |
1:46.6 | And he wanted to put him on stage, at least one of them. |
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