Formed
Sermons, songs, books, essays, and Bible studies worth your time, each with a note on why.
Our power: spirit-filled living
Tim Keller uses the metaphor of an acorn to illustrate the nature of God's power to shape us. An acorn can break concrete and yield an entire forest, but its power is through slow change. God uses magic acorns, not magic bullets.
Holy Forever
Written by Chris Tomlin, Jason Ingram, Brian Johnson, Jenn Johnson, Phil Wickham · performed by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin performs Holy Forever
What a Beautiful Name
Written by Ben Fielding, Brooke Ligertwood · performed by Hillsong Worship
Hillsong worship performs What a Beautiful Name
Firm Foundation (He Won't)
Written by Cody Carnes, Chandler Moore, Austin Davis · performed by Cody Carnes
Cody Carnes performs Firm Foundation
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Keller takes the most common objections to Christianity seriously — suffering, exclusivity, the church's failures, science — before making a positive case for faith. Useful both for skeptics and for believers who want to engage them honestly.
Meditations on Genesis - Session 1: What the Bible actually means when God says "Good"
Tim Mackie explores the Creation narrative and what it reveals about the Trinity and the nature of goodness.
Meditations on Genesis - Session 2: Why God withheld the tree (and what that teaches us about desire)
Tim Mackie discusses the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as well as the nature of wisdom and desire. He further explores the relationship between wisdom and God's word as well as God's intention for our wisdom.
Meditations on Genesis - Session 3: How Jesus becomes the human we were meant to be
Tim Mackie discusses Creation parallels with Jesus' baptism, temptation in the wilderness, and Sermon on the Mount. He further ties together the prior discussions of desire and wisdom.
Made in the Image of God
What Genesis means when it calls humanity God's image — and why it grounds the worth of every person rather than the worth of some.
Forming and Filling
Genesis 1 is built on a deliberate structure, and where humanity lands inside it says something about what we are for.
