Restoration
- What is (Christian) Cultural Renewal | Tim Keller | MP3 Christians commonly think we can change the culture around us through evangelism or through great individuals. However, culture is primarily changed through communities. Dualism, the separation of the personal and public spheres — the way we often separate our faith from other areas of our lives — prevents us from having a stronger impact upon culture.
- Culture | Tim Keller | MP3 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 sadness, war, and darkness. In order to use our lives and our professions to cultivate a rich and godly culture, we must consider the goodness that God intends for culture, the brokenness of our culture, the diversity of culture, and how culture can be renewed.
- Can Faith be Green? | Tim Keller | MP3 Genesis shows us the goodness of creation, the stewardship of creation, the fallenness of creation, and the final restoration of creation. The Bible calls us as Christians to be careful stewards of creation because nature reflects God’s goodness and because nature will ultimately be restored in heaven.
- Accepting the Judge | Tim Keller | MP3 Without a judgment day, we would live in a hopeless world. But if there is a judgment day, none of us could bear the weight of judgment. However, in Christ we have already been judged. In Christ we can live between two judgments: the judgment we’ve already passed through and the coming judgment of the world.
- Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church | N.T. Wright | Book Wright outlines the present confusion about a believer's hope in afterlife and talks about how a true view is intertwined with how we live today.
- Last But Not Least: The Importance of Eschatology | Jeff Purswell | Via Sovereign Grace Ministries | MP3 & PDF Outline Eschatology may be the doctrine of last things, but it can significantly influence how you live right now, affecting how you respond to tests and trials and forming the nature of your hope as a Christian. This series reviews the various approaches to the subject and includes a question and answer session. The closing session is an apologetic for the amillennial view.
- The Inside Out Kingdom | Tim Keller | MP3 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus contrasts two groups who appear the same on the outside, but have different motives on the inside. Religious people are superficial, hiding behind the letter of the law; but people who are changed by the gospel are shining in the spirit of the law.
- The Upside Down Kingdom | Tim Keller | MP3 Jesus introduces a revolutionary kingdom in the Sermon on the Mount. He contrasts the pattern, power, and product of two kingdoms: the old one which we are currently under, and the new one which is to come. Jesus' teaching goes against every natural instinct, and represents a reversal of the world's values.
- Gospel of the Kingdom: Scriptural Studies in the Kingdom of God | George Ladd | Book George Ladd presents a practical and devotional scriptural study of the many aspects of the kingdom, based on the parables, the Sermon on the Mount, and other key passages.
- Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City, & the People of God | Harvey Conn & Manuel Ortiz | Book Covering almost every aspect of urban ministry, this book not only informs us of the challenges of urban ministry, but equips us to face those challenges. The message of the book is not to just evangelism in the city, but mobilizing leaders and the church as a whole to bring about social transformation in the global urban centers.
