Synopses & Reviews
New York Timesbestselling author Timothy Keller explores how people are changed by meeting Jesus personallyand how we can be changed encountering him today. What is my purpose in life? What is a good life? Why is there so much wrong with our world? What can I do to help make it right? These are some of the big questions that everyone confronts in life. For many of us, the answers, we think, are elusive, even out of reach. But were wrong. What we must do, Timothy Keller says in Encounters with Jesus, is understand that any lasting change in our lives will start with a change to one or more of our answers to these questions.
Keller knows that Jesus changed the life of every person he met in the Gospels, through powerful experiences and words that led them to unexpected and transforming answers to their big questions. These profound conversations can still address our questions and doubts today. Encounters with Jesus focuses on several of these meetings Jesus had with othersincluding with a skeptical student, a religious insider, an outcast, even his motherand shows how the central events in Jesus life provide ways for us to encounter him again or for the first time.
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Praise for Timothy Keller
“Tim Kellers ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.”
—Billy Graham
“Rev. Tim Keller [is] a Manhattan institution, one of those open urban secrets, like your favorite dim sum place, with a following so ardent and so fast-growing that he has never thought to advertise.”
—Newsweek
“The most successful Christian Evangelist in [New York City].”
—New York
Synopsis
New York Times bestselling author of the forthcoming God's Wisdom for Navigating Life Timothy Keller explores how people are changed by meeting Jesus personally--and how we can be changed encountering him today.
The people who met Jesus Christ in person faced the same big life questions we face today. Like most of us, the answers handed down to them didn't seem to work in the real world. But when they met Jesus, things immediately started to change for them. It seems he not only had the answers--he was the answer. In Encounters with Jesus, Timothy Keller shows how the central events and meetings in Jesus' life can change our own lives forever.
-Keller's work belongs on the bookshelf of every serious Bible student.- --Examiner.com
-Keller has mined the gold from these texts of Scripture, and any Christian is bound to have their minds expanded and hearts stirred.- --Graceforsinners.com
Synopsis
New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores how people are changed by meeting Jesus personally--and how we can be changed encountering him today. The people who met Jesus Christ in person faced the same big life questions we face today. Like most of us, the answers handed down to them didn't seem to work in the real world. But when they met Jesus, things immediately started to change for them. It seems he not only had the answers--he was the answer. In Encounters with Jesus, Timothy Keller shows how the central events and meetings in Jesus' life can change our own lives forever.
Keller's work belongs on the bookshelf of every serious Bible student. --Examiner
Keller has mined the gold from these texts of Scripture, and any Christian is bound to have their minds expanded and hearts stirred. --Grace for Sinners
About the Author
Timothy Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. He was first a pastor in Hopewell, Virginia. In 1989 he started Redeemer Presbyterian Church, in New York City, with his wife, Kathy, and their three sons. Today, Redeemer has more than five thousand regular Sunday attendees and has helped to start over 250 new churches around the world. Also the author of Every Good Endeavor, The Meaning of Marriage, Generous Justice, Counterfeit Gods, The Prodigal God, Jesus the King, and The Reason for God, Timothy Keller lives in New York City with his family.