#TIM KELLER PANCREATIC CANCER UPDATE#

Like many people I know, his books have helped me make sense of my own faith, especially Generous Justice and Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering.

Tim was also a pastor through his writing. His influence, even in my limited orbit, is staggering. I only heard him preach there once, but my life is daily enriched by friends whose lives were changed by their time at Redeemer-friends in their twenties and friends in their eighties former students and former teachers pastors, musicians, journalists, scientists, and business leaders. Tim pastored his own churches, most prominently Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.

#TIM KELLER PANCREATIC CANCER UPDATE#

When my dad became ill with cancer shortly after Tim and I began working on Uncommon Ground, Tim always asked about him during our update calls, sometimes saying “Kathy and I will pray for him.” The first time I met him, he sought me out across a crowded room and spent an hour asking me about my life and family. He was a pastor who cared deeply about those around him. Tim listened to people in a way that I’m not sure I’ve seen in anyone else of his stature. In his own chapter, he called Christians to focus on “the simple means of grace-preaching and teaching, prayer, worship, the sacraments, fellowship, and friendship-to fan the flames of gospel faith in the heart.” Tim the Pastor One of Tim’s many contributions to our book-and to his broader public engagement-was connecting cultural observations to the biblical hope that anchored his life. His fingerprints are all over its words, themes, and people. I’ve had some good laughs reading the negative reviews on Amazon, most of which complain that “this not a Tim Keller book.” But of course, it is a Tim Keller book. I observed Tim’s intellect most acutely in our work together on our book, Uncommon Ground. Tim also had an uncanny ability to see the details and the big picture at the same time. For the past nine years, we traded book recommendations, argued about Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Abraham Kuyper, and debated whether “post-Christian” was a helpful adjective for contemporary American society. He downplayed his intellect, but he had an insatiable appetite to learn and engage and a remarkable ability to simplify complex ideas.

Tim was one of the smartest people I’ve known.

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