What Is Wrong with the World?  The Surprising, Hopeful Answer to the Question We Cannot Avoid by Tim Keller

Please join us in reading the first book of Tim Keller’s that has been released since his death in 2023.

From the Amazon description:

“During his tenure as founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, Timothy Keller explained on a weekly basis how the Bible provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated response to the fundamental questions of life. In What Is Wrong with the World?, based on a series of teachings given at Redeemer, Keller answers the title’s pressing question by revealing that the only thing that can account for the world’s pain and chaos is what the Bible calls sin. This clear-eyed and ultimately hopeful book reveals how sin is not simply a “bad” thing we do but something much more subtle and complex, affecting our relationships, our thinking, and every aspect of our existence. And only when we recognize sin for what it is can we find the profound, life-transforming answer our souls long for.”

This week, we look at the Preface by Kathy Keller. Here are a few quotes from the chapter that I found helpful:

• Tim preached the sermons on which this book is based in the 1990s as a series under the title “The Faces of Sin.”
• In the years since Tim died, I have tried to bring some kind of order to all the books, papers, talks, sermons, lectures, classes, notes, journals, and jottings he left behind.
• I did, however, manage to extract the folder titled “The Faces of Sin” and, after consulting with a number of knowledgeable people, decided it would be a good start for a book about sin.
• Each chapter ends with a prayer because Tim was aware, as all mature Christians are, that we deceive ourselves most concerning our own sinfulness.
• So as you read, allow God to probe you for your hidden sins and to give you a contrite and broken heart over the ways you have broken both his law and his heart. Grace is there for the asking.