Gospel and Culture Lectures

Category: Cultural Renewal

The Gospel and Culture lecture series showcases talks by leading Christian thinkers on how the Gospel permeates ALL areas of life...

What Is Common Grace?

Category: Cultural Renewal

The doctrine of common grace helps us to acknowledge God’s goodness in all of creation and enables us to pursue mission with love in a fallen world.

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Ei Forum Resources

Category: Cultural Renewal

The Entrepreneurship Initiative (Ei), part of the Center for Faith and Work at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, was created to encourage and...

Hope for the World

Category: Cultural Renewal

Hope is a stance toward life that is neither sentimental nor cynical, that is active and ambitious for church renewal and for life in...

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The Gospel and the Poor (Article)

Category: Cultural Renewal

Our individual and corporate commitment to the gospel ought to motivate ministry to the poor and marginalized among us. This article is...

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On Justice: Practical Steps for the Church Planter

Category: Cultural Renewal

Doing justice is hard work and it is often expensive.  How can already overextended church planters answer the call to do...

The Gospel and Our Prejudice

Category: Cultural Renewal

The Bible shows us how to humbly critique our own cultural biases while becoming a people of God united across a diversity of races...

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The Lord of the Rings and Redemptive Art

Category: Cultural Renewal

The Lord of the Rings is a great demonstration of the difference between Christian art and propaganda.

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Hope for the Poor

Category: Cultural Renewal

The hope of the Gospel creates love for the poor - a love with action and service.

This transcript is the second sermon in the...

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The Bible on Church and Culture

Category: Cultural Renewal

Living out the Bible's commands to love and serve God and our neighbor will naturally lead to our having an impact on the culture.

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Christianity and the Creative Age

Category: Cultural Renewal

Tim Keller addresses questions facing those in professions, including whether creative work is becoming more valued by society; whether the...

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What is Christian Cultural Renewal?

Category: Cultural Renewal

Christians commonly think we can change the culture around us through evangelism or through great individuals. However, culture is...

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Writing from a Christian Worldview

Category: Cultural Renewal

You can't make sense from facts without using them to create a story, and you can't make sense of a story without putting it in context of...

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Culture

Category: Cultural Renewal

Isaiah shows the way the riches of the world glorify God through the cultural activity in the new Jerusalem. God has saved this city from...

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Re-imagine Law

Category: Cultural Renewal

To examine the relationship between practicing law and Christianity, we must re-imagine how we practice law as Christians, and the law...

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Justice

Category: Cultural Renewal

The biblical concept of justice emphasizes restoring the wholeness of the world. However, we contribute to the breakdown of the society...

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The Gospel and the Poor: A Case for Compassion

Category: Cultural Renewal

On July 22, 2009, Tim Keller spoke at Campus Crusade's U.S. Staff Conference about "The Gospel and the Poor: The Case for Compassion."

Arguing About Politics

Category: Cultural Renewal

The Pharisees pose a controversial question to Jesus when they ask him if they should pay taxes. Jesus responds with a revolutionary...

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Trading: Increasing God's Currency or Yours?

Category: Cultural Renewal

A panel of three traders discusses the particular challenges of living out their Christian walk in the trading world.

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Hope, Race and Power

Category: Cultural Renewal

Racial and cultural differences exist. They cannot be resolved by simply embracing broad-mindedness, but by adjusting our lives and forming...

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Can Faith Be Green?

Category: Cultural Renewal

Genesis shows us the goodness of creation, the stewardship of creation, the fallenness of creation, and the final restoration of creation...

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Entrepreneurship: A Reason for Hope

Category: Cultural Renewal

The Entrepreneurship Initiative (EI) was created to encourage and support entrepreneurs within our congregation who have a bold vision...

Entrepreneurs of Change: Jaradoa Theater

Category: Cultural Renewal

Jaradoa is a member-based company of professional theater artists - actors, directors, writers and designers - whose mission is to...

Gary Haugen on Justice

Category: Cultural Renewal

God has a passion for the world and a passion for justice. According to the Bible, injustice is the abuse of power that allows the strong...

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Being the Church in our Culture

Category: Cultural Renewal

If Christians are to influence the culture, they need to form dynamic countercultures within cities, integrate their faith with their work...

On Generous Justice

Category: Cultural Renewal

Scott Anderson from Desiring God interviews Tim Keller about Generous Justice.  Dr. Keller discusses the Biblical definition...

Entrepreneurs of Change: Beacon Christian Community Health Center

Category: Cultural Renewal

A Christian not-for-profit medical center serving the residents of an under-served neighborhood in Staten Island.  One of the winners...

Generous Justice

Category: Cultural Renewal

It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing justice. Isn’t it full of...

Doing Justice

Category: Cultural Renewal

Doing justice is just as much a part of the work of the church as evangelism; one is not more important than the other.  Justice is...

Justification and Justice

Category: Cultural Renewal

Too often Christians who are excited by justice have little interest in justification.  Likewise, Christians who are excited by...