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The Search for Substance

2024/5/3
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The sermon discusses the concept of rootlessness and weightlessness in modern society, comparing it to the stability of an oak tree versus the freedom of a tumbleweed. It highlights how this condition affects individuals and society, leading to superficiality and a lack of enduring internal reality.

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A plant without roots is at best a tumbleweed. Is a tumbleweed freer than an oak tree? Yeah, it’s free to be blown about forever. 

There is what the Bible calls a rootlessness and a weightlessness about our society right now. Many of the problems you face today are that you’ve been affected deeply by this weightlessness we experience in our culture and society. 

The roots of this rootlessness were addressed long ago in Psalm 1, which tells us 1) the diagnosis of rootlessness and 2) the prescription for rootlessness.

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 19, 1993. Series: Modern Problems; Ancient Solutions. Scripture: Psalm 1.

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