Go Forward in Love

A Year of Daily Readings from Timothy Keller

Timothy Keller

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9780310369554
• Topic: Theology & Religion

From the works of pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes this yearlong compilation with daily readings from his best-loved books.

The perfect 365-daily reader for both new and longtime admirers of Timothy Keller's writing, Go Forward in Love features deep insights, profound truths, and biblical wisdom on topics such as prayer, forgiveness, loving our neighbors, the importance of work, and the hope of the resurrection.

Each day's reading is short, but will lead you into deep reflection, give you a fresh sense of awe and wonder before God, and help you go forward in love as willing servants of God and everyone around you.

A timeless collection of wisdom from one of our generation's most trusted spiritual leaders, this volume features excerpts from his best-loved books, including The Reason for God, The Prodigal God, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, The Meaning of Marriage, and more.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• January 1: Creation and Shalom
• January 2: The Fall and Loss of Shalom
• January 3: Jesus Died for You
• January 4: Avoiding Jesus through Religion
• January 5: The Difference of Grace
• January 6: The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
• January 7: The Forgiveness of God
• January 8: The Divine Dance
• January 9: Joining Creation’s Dance
• January 10: Deeds of Justice and Service
• January 11: Grace Makes Us Servants
• January 12: God of Love and Justice
• January 13: Miracles Lead to Worship
• January 14: Two Sons
• January 15: Two Kinds of People
• January 16: The Younger Brother’s Plan
• January 17: The Father’s Welcome
• January 18: The Elder Brother’s Anger
• January 19: Two Ways to Rebel
• January 20: Insecurity or Joy?
• January 21: God’s Initiating Love
• January 22: The True Elder Brother
• January 23: Our Longing for Home
• January 24: The Feast at the End of History
• January 25: Experiencing the Feast
• January 26: Not Just the ABCs, but the A to Z
• January 27: You Are Not Your Own
• January 28: Why Justice Matters
• January 29: Justice Is Care for the Vulnerable
• January 30: Justice Reflects the Character of God
• January 31: Justice Is Right Relationships
• February 1: Jesus and the Vulnerable
• February 2: Generous Hospitality
• February 3: Jesus’ New Community
• February 4: The Secret of Marriage
• February 5: You Never Marry the Right Person
• February 6: Two Sinners Under One Roof
• February 7: The Goodness of Singleness
• February 8: Jacob’s Longing
• February 9: The Devastation of Idolatry
• February 10: Leah’s Breakthrough
• February 11: The True Bridegroom
• February 12: A Great Mystery
• February 13: He Gave Himself Up for Us
• February 14: More than We Dare to Fear or Hope
• February 15: The Heart Is an Idol Factory
• February 16: Anything Can Be an Idol
• February 17: The Worst Thing That Can Happen
• February 18: The Call of Abraham
• February 19: The Ultimate Test
• February 20: The Danger of the Best Things in the World
• February 21: The Substitute
• February 22: The King Arrives
• February 23: Jesus’ Baptism
• February 24: The Dance of Reality
• February 25: Dancing into Battle
• February 26: The Call
• February 27: Following the King
• February 28: The Hands of the King Are Healing Hands
• March 1: Suffering Can Draw Us Closer to God
• March 2: Suffering Is a Key Bible Theme
• March 3: Not Just despite but through Suffering
• March 4: God Is with Us in the Furnace
• March 5: Purification, Not Punishment
• March 6: Suffering and Grace
• March 7: The Logos Is a Person
• March 8: Room for Grief and Tears
• March 9: God Is for Us, Even When We Suffer
• March 10: The Stain
• March 11: Outside-In Cleansing
• March 12: Inside-Out Cleansing
• March 13: The Turn
• March 14: The Son of Man Must Suffer
• March 15: Take Up Your Cross
• March 16: Seeing the Kingdom
• March 17: The Mountain
• March 18: The Face of God
• March 19: Caught in the Trap
• March 20: Repenting of Our Good Things
• March 21: The Center of Our Identity
• March 22: A Ransom for Many
• March 23: Love and Sacrifice
• March 24: Meekness and Majesty
• March 25: Destroying the Ring
• March 26: Opening the Temple
• March 27: The Feast
• March 28: The Lamb of God
• March 29: The Curtain Torn in Two
• March 30: The Shadow Is Only a Small and Passing Thing
• March 31: A Remembrance of the Future
• April 1: Easter Hope for the World
• April 2: The Empty Tomb and the Witnesses
• April 3: Was the Resurrection a Hoax?
• April 4: God’s Grace Shown through His Suffering
• April 5: Restoration, Not Just Consolation
• April 6: Living with Hope and Grace
• April 7: God Brings About Good from Evil
• April 8: Nothing Compared to Seeing God
• April 9: Jesus’ Glory in His Suffering
• April 10: Suffering Is Within God’s Control
• April 11: God Plans Our Plans
• April 12: Our Deepest Need
• April 13: Jesus’ Patience
• April 14: Who Can Forgive Sins but God Alone?
• April 15: The Price of Forgiveness
• April 16: Jesus Versus Religion
• April 17: Lord of Rest
• April 18: Be Still
• April 19: Unmanageable Power
• April 20: Costly Power
• April 21: A Trustworthy Bible or a Stepford God?
• April 22: Acknowledging and Wrestling with Doubts
• April 23: Doubt Your Doubts
• April 24: Help My Unbelief
• April 25: Faith and Violence?
• April 26: Redemption and Suffering
• April 27: Resurrection and Suffering
• April 28: Everything Sad Will Come Untrue
• April 29: Form and Freedom
• April 30: No Needy among Them
• May 1: Do Good to All People
• May 2: Who Is My Neighbor?
• May 3: The Great Samaritan
• May 4: Honoring the Image
• May 5: Justice in Response to God’s Grace
• May 6: Justification and Justice
• May 7: A New Attitude toward the Poor
• May 8: Always Thinking of Justice
• May 9: The Ascension
• May 10: At the Right Hand of the Father
• May 11: Money as a Master
• May 12: Grace and Money
• May 13: The Poverty of Christ
• May 14: The Idolatry of Success
• May 15: The Successful Dead Man
• May 16: Some Great Thing
• May 17: Two Suffering Servants
• May 18: Be Filled with the Spirit
• May 19: Servants to One Another
• May 20: The Antidote to Self-Centeredness
• May 21: The Path to True Happiness
• May 22: The Joyful Fear of the Lord
• May 23: The Liberating Fear of the Lord
• May 24: Enjoying the Triune God
• May 25: Encountering the Father
• May 26: Encountering the Spirit
• May 27: Encountering the Son
• May 28: Doing Justice and Preaching Grace
• May 29: God in the Face of the Poor
• May 30: Racial Reconciliation
• May 31: Grace and Race
• June 1: Common Grace Cooperation
• June 2: Justice and Christian Provocation
• June 3: Two Ways to “Love”
• June 4: The Character of Friendship
• June 5: Christian Friendship
• June 6: Friendship in Action
• June 7: Spiritual Friendship
• June 8: In the Beginning, There Was Work
• June 9: The Forms of God’s Work
• June 10: The Goodness of Our Work
• June 11: The Limits of All Work
• June 12: Work and Human Dignity
• June 13: Common Grace at Work
• June 14: The Creation Mandate
• June 15: Called and Assigned
• June 16: Vocation and the Gospel
• June 17: The Idolatry of Power
• June 18: The Insecure King
• June 19: The Mad King
• June 20: A Resurrection from the Death of Pride
• June 21: Nothing Is More Common
• June 22: Blessing with a Limp
• June 23: The Importance of Discerning Idols
• June 24: Replacing Idols
• June 25: The Ministry of Competence
• June 26: Paradise Lost
• June 27: Painful Labor
• June 28: Deep Consolation
• June 29: Under the Sun
• June 30: The Meaninglessness of Work
• July 1: A Handful of Quietness
• July 2: Rest for Your Soul
• July 3: A New Story for Work
• July 4: Transforming Work
• July 5: The Power of Deep Rest
• July 6: Every Good Endeavor
• July 7: Seeking the Good of the City
• July 8: Reach Out to the Outcast
• July 9: True Satisfaction
• July 10: The Search for Living Water
• July 11: The Insider
• July 12: Religious Sin
• July 13: The Only Real Savior
• July 14: Jesus’ Thirst
• July 15: Conversation and Encounter
• July 16: The Necessity of Prayer
• July 17: The Testimony of the Spirit
• July 18: “Intelligent Mysticism”
• July 19: Learning to Pray
• July 20: Knowing God Better
• July 21: Open the Eyes of Our Hearts
• July 22: Blessing Then Trial
• July 23: If You Are the Son of God . . .
• July 24: It Is Written
• July 25: Spiritual Warfare
• July 26: The Advocate
• July 27: Just to Forgive
• July 28: The Second Advocate
• July 29: The Integrity of Prayer
• July 30: The Hardness of Prayer
• July 31: Knowing God
• August 1: Prayer in Jesus’ Name
• August 2: The Prayer of Prayers
• August 3: Trusting God’s Fatherly Love
• August 4: Honoring God’s Holy Name
• August 5: Yearning for a Future of Justice and Peace
• August 6: Submitting Our Wills to God’s Perfect Will
• August 7: Seeking Provision and Justice
• August 8: Receiving Grace, Showing Grace
• August 9: From Temptation to Trust
• August 10: Calling on God’s Victory over Evil
• August 11: Praying with One Another
• August 12: Let the Message of Christ Dwell Among You Richly
• August 13: The Lord Opens Hearts
• August 14: Nothing Except Christ Crucified
• August 15: Preaching to the Cultural Heart
• August 16: Preaching Christ by the Spirit’s Power
• August 17: Confidence in God’s Word
• August 18: Christ in All of Scripture
• August 19: The Fulfillment of Covenant History
• August 20: The True and Better Leader
• August 21: The True and Better Jonah
• August 22: The True and Better Tree of Life
• August 23: The True and Better David
• August 24: The True and Better Israel
• August 25: The True and Better Blessed One
• August 26: Actions Shape the Heart
• August 27: Actions Open the Eyes
• August 28: The Heart Shapes the Actions
• August 29: God and the Heart
• August 30: Not Even One
• August 31: Confession
• September 1: The Discerning Heart
• September 2: The Importance of the Heart
• September 3: Changing Minds and Hearts
• September 4: Capturing the Imagination
• September 5: Imagination and Empathy
• September 6: The Hidden Truth of Fantasy
• September 7: The Good Spell of the Gospel
• September 8: A Subtext of Worship
• September 9: Introvert or Extrovert?
• September 10: Inside and Outside
• September 11: Deep Waters
• September 12: Trapped by Desire
• September 13: Ordering Desire
• September 14: The Sociology of Desire
• September 15: Approval
• September 16: A Puzzling Story?
• September 17: Prodigal Prophet
• September 18: Running from God
• September 19: Two Ways of Running
• September 20: The World’s Storms
• September 21: God Turns Storms to Good
• September 22: God of All People
• September 23: Recognizing Common Grace
• September 24: Whose Are You?
• September 25: Embracing the Other
• September 26: The Pattern of Love
• September 27: “The Sea Ceased from Its Raging”
• September 28: Running from Grace
• September 29: Amazing Grace
• September 30: Doing Justice, Preaching Wrath
• October 1: Why Do People Repent?
• October 2: Heart Storms
• October 3: The Problem of Self-Righteousness
• October 4: The God Who Is Patient
• October 5: The God Who Weeps
• October 6: The Weeping God in Human Form
• October 7: Born into a Living Hope
• October 8: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
• October 9: The Gift of Baptism
• October 10: Enduring the Sword
• October 11: Born of God
• October 12: The Beauty of Jesus
• October 13: Growing in Grace
• October 14: Marriage Was Made for Us
• October 15: Mutual Self-Giving
• October 16: Avoiding Idolatry in Marriage
• October 17: God Our Bridegroom
• October 18: The Most Patient Spouse Ever
• October 19: The Signpost of Sex
• October 20: The End of History
• October 21: The Hope of the Resurrection
• October 22: Knowing the Resurrection
• October 23: The Good Invasion
• October 24: The Power of the Resurrection
• October 25: The Necessity of the Resurrection
• October 26: The Evidence for the Resurrection
• October 27: The Strangeness of the Resurrection
• October 28: Can We Know That the Resurrection Happened?
• October 29: A Gracious Faith
• October 30: Hope from the Future
• October 31: By Faith Alone
• November 1: Forgiveness Without Limit
• November 2: The Difficulty of Forgiveness
• November 3: The Request and the Release
• November 4: The New Offence
• November 5: The Verdict
• November 6: (Our) Failures of Forgiveness
• November 7: Paid in Full
• November 8: The Temple to End All Temples
• November 9: Upside Down Kingdom
• November 10: The Once and Future King
• November 11: “So the Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up”
• November 12: A Living Relationship
• November 13: Seated with Christ in the Heavenly Realms
• November 14: Forgiveness in the Books of Moses
• November 15: Forgiveness in the Psalms
• November 16: Forgiveness in the Prophets
• November 17: Forgiveness in the Gospels
• November 18: The Basis for Forgiveness
• November 19: The God of Fury and Love
• November 20: Where Love and Fury Meet
• November 21: Hope for Relationships
• November 22: Bearing Witness on Race
• November 23: Hope for Justice
• November 24: Things Unseen
• November 25: Effective Hope
• November 26: Light and High Beauty Forever
• November 27: When Darkness Seems Your Closest Friend
• November 28: Neither Death nor Life
• November 29: Our Champion
• November 30: Where, O Death, Is Your Sting?
• December 1: Weep with Those Who Weep
• December 2: Grieving with Hope
• December 3: Personal Hope
• December 4: Material Hope
• December 5: Beatific Hope
• December 6: Assured Hope
• December 7: The Mountains and the Trees Will Sing for Joy
• December 8: Light in the Darkness
• December 9: The Meaning of Light
• December 10: The Dawning of the Light
• December 11: The Light of Grace
• December 12: Good News, Not Good Advice
• December 13: More than a Fairy Story
• December 14: Genealogy of Grace
• December 15: Son of the Most High
• December 16: The Power of the Most High
• December 17: The Importance of Honest Doubts
• December 18: Be It Unto Me According to Thy Word
• December 19: Courage to Be with Him
• December 20: The Virgin Birth
• December 21: Hear Well
• December 22: Fear Not
• December 23: Treasuring Up in Our Hearts
• December 24: The Greatest Hope
• December 25: One of Us
• December 26: Forgive on the Spot
• December 27: Confront and Forgive
• December 28: Two Aspects of Forgiveness
• December 29: Love Your Enemies
• December 30: Union with Christ
• December 31: Forward in Love
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