As Christians, we can have strong beliefs, but do those beliefs actually result in changed

character? Today on Gospel and Life, Tim Keller teaches on how beliefs are turned into character

through daily practices, also known as Christian disciplines. After you listen, we'd appreciate it if

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Now here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller. Tonight's scripture reading is from Psalm 95

versus 1 through 11. Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout aloud to the rock of our

salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the

great God, the great king above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth and the mountain peaks

belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Come, let us bow down

in worship. Let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker, for he is our God, and we are the people of

his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if you hear his voice, do not heart in your hearts as you

did at Maraba, as you did that day at Massa in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me,

though they had seen what I did. For 40 years, I was angry with that generation. I said,

they are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways. So I declared on oath in

my anger, they shall never enter my rest. This is God's Word. We're starting a new series on

spiritual disciplines or Christian practices like gathering for corporate worship or

private meditation and prayer or disciplines of simplicity, generosity, reading the Bible in community,

spiritual friendship, and you say, well, why is that so important? The best way to introduce the

series is to plunge into the first Christian practice, the first of the spiritual disciplines,

and that is worship. We're looking at Psalm 95, which is called the Venite. It's very famous because in

Latin, Venite is the first word, it's O-Come, and it's probably not only reputedly, but I also think

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