Learning to Linger

By Tim Keller, Lead Pastor Monday morning Cheri and I headed to our favorite diner to enjoy our typical Monday morning breakfast. Because of my schedule the past few weeks it was going to be our first Monday breakfast together in nearly a month and we were both looking forward to it. With Monday being my day off, our weekly […]

A Timely Word

by Tim Keller, Lead Pastor Have you ever been impressed by the fact that so many television characters seem to be able to speak the perfect line at the perfect time? A co-worker makes an observation about the boss and the star rolls her eyes and says something witty, clever and funny. The character playing the president or the vice-president […]

The Exodus

by Tim Keller, Lead Pastor Late in 2017 a poll was taken of more than 2000 American young adults between the ages of 23 and 30. What they had in common was that they had attended a Protestant church two or more times a month for at least a year while in High School. The results were startling: 66% of […]

But If God Isn’t There…Then?

by Tim Keller, Lead Pastor It was the nineteenth century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche who declared that God was dead and with His demise the end of morality. He held that sin was nothing more than an elaborate ruse invented by a band of religious zealots in order to control the souls of their flocks. He sought to charter a […]

A Sanctified Sound System

by Tim Keller, Lead Pastor The new sound system at CAC has been paid for, delivered, installed and a noticeable change has become detectable to the ears of our congregation. Hallelujah! Wait; there’s more. After utilizing the system for a week those working the sound board have given indication there’s even better sound coming in the future. How can this […]

Wading in a Cold Stream

by Tim Keller, Lead Pastor Our neighborhood association has a clean-up day each spring where, among other things, a few of us wade into the LeTort stream and pick up trash that people have tossed in throughout the past year. Usually we collect everything from grocery carts to plastic toys, from empty two-liter bottles to plastic bags. When we pick […]

The Praise Jar

by Tim Keller, Lead Pastor Some traditions begin with a wildly successful event that goes over so big that everyone clamors for a repeat engagement as soon as possible. This is no doubt why Hollywood has never met a sequel it didn’t try to utilize to squeeze additional revenue. Other traditions begin slowly, almost silently, and yet become foundational to our […]

Who Is Going To Tell Him?

by Tim Keller, Lead Pastor Recently the news reported that Britain’s 97 year old Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was involved in a car accident near his country estate in Norfolk. Apparently, he pulled his Land Rover in front of a Kia driven by a 28 year-old woman who had her 9 month-old baby in a car seat in […]

Ships in the Harbor

Tim Keller, Lead Pastor You don’t pull out the GPS for directions on how to get to your job, do you? You don’t need to stop and ask for help getting to your favorite restaurant, right?  Of course not. What about the first day you worked there? What about the night you made your first trip to that Italian restaurant […]