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Tim Keller's freedom of self-forgetfulness

Tim Keller's freedom of self-forgetfulness

"What are the marks of a heart that has been radically changed by the grace of God?" asks Tim Keller in the opening of his book "The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness". In an age where promoting yourself, building your résumé and pleasing other people are seen as the ultimate pathways to happiness, Keller challenges us to find true rest in 'blessed self-forgetfulness'. .

  • Economic slavery: Glencore in Zambia

    Good Copper Bad Copper is an explosive documentary released on YouTube earlier this year, bringing to light the social, economic and environmental plundering of Zambia by the larger multinational mines, specifically Glencore\'s Mopani mine in Mufulira.

  • Christmas, gatherings and eternal treasures

    We recently had a big family gathering for my husband\'s side of the family. We do this once a year, not so much as a \'Christmas\' function but more so that we can meet up with family we wouldn\'t normally see. It is a great occasion and I am always amazed at how much difference a year makes. Children of cousins who I once towered over, now look down at me from amazing heights!

  • Jesus' stable was certainly not a safe or pleasant labour ward!

    Apparently we look young. When sales people knock on our door they often ask "is your Mum or Dad home?" To which we reply, "no, but my husband/wife and baby are." Now, before you beg us to divulge our beauty secrets, let's be clear, we do not enjoy being mistaken for very young parents. Simply because society can be quite hostile to such people.

  • New Church Outreach Program: Giving people the Big Picture

    "Allow God's story to transform yours" This was the slogan for a new outreach series launched at mooraboolchurch.org last October. "The Bible: The Big Picture" outline the Bible's central storyline and challenges people to see how God's salvation plan impacts them.

  • O little town of tradition

    T. S. Eliot said that a tradition without intelligence is not worth having. He was right. As with a number of things in life, the good reasons we once had for doing things are easily lost in the repetition of doing them. And yet there seem to be some champions of tradition, as if an action or event repeated for long enough warrants some value.

  • Humble to the Dying Breath

    Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. (Philippians 2:3-4)

  • A new life and a new youth found at New Life Youth

    For about eighteen months I was between Churches and Youth groups. Once I had finished high school at the end of 2010 it was hard to find a youth group for those not currently in high school and not necessary an adult, that in-between phase was difficult to adjust to and took a while to find a new youth group.

  • Life's a race, where will any of us finish?

    For the past two and half years I have been honoured to write for Christian Today Australia; however this will be my last article. After weighing up the responsibilities of a young family, work and other ministries I'm involved in, I made the difficult decision to step aside from my role as a Comment writer.

  • Melbourne weather teaches us to hold fast

    An indescribable climate.

  • God's plans versus our plans

    Earlier this year, I travelled to the Philippines on a short term exposure trip. Not long after arriving in Manila I began work on a project that explored the life experiences of a small pocket of Christians living within the slum community of Tatalon. It was an exceptional and surreal experience to have people I'd never met before, open up about such painful, shameful or intimate moments in their lives.

  • A Merry Grinchmas to All

    Christmas is coming and so is the stuff, stuff, stuff until it reaches your eyeballs. Yes, Christmas is the time of plenty and that 'plenty' is plenty of stuff that you could live without. I can't count all the gifts I've bought for people just for the mere sake of having something to give and not looking like a cheapskate. I can't count all the gifts I've received in the same manner – most that get regifted the first opportunity I have to give them away to someone I hope can use them more th