The Way of Wisdom by Timothy Keller
Genre: Christian, Devotionals
Read: June 2024 - June 2025
Published: 19 October 2017
★★★★★ 5 stars
DESCRIPTION:
From pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes a beautifully packaged, yearlong daily devotional based on the Book of Proverbs
Proverbs is God's book of wisdom, teaching us the essence and goal of a Christian life. In this 365-day devotional, Timothy Keller offers readers a fresh, inspiring lesson for every day of the year based on different passages within the Book of Proverbs. With his trademark knowledge, Keller unlocks the wisdom within the poetry of Proverbs and guides us toward a new understanding of what it means to live a moral life and apply it to the reality of our modern lives.
God's Wisdom for Navigating Life is a book that readers will be able to turn to every day, year after year, to cultivate a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with God.
Day after day, Keller unlocks and renews our understanding of the essence and goal of a Christian life. Each entry has a verse, a meditation and a prayer, and includes a question that will invite and inspire you to live a life rooted in wisdom.
If you have enjoyed My Rock, my Refuge, Keller's devotional on the psalms, you will love The Way of Wisdom.
MY THOUGHTS:
I love the Proverbs. They hold some of my most favourite verses in the Bible and Timothy Keller brings each one to life in this verse by verse study of the Bible's book of wisdom. Unlike his devotional on the Psalms (which I struggled with and shelved for a later time) which proceeds in Biblical order, this devotional is divided into themes - including marriage, the seven deadly sins (one by one), friendship, parenting. Each day he focuses on a couple of verses (and not necessarily concurrent ones) and building his commentary on which we can then draw on and apply to our own lives.
None of us are perfect and none of us can say that only some apply to us while others don't. In all honesty, each and every devotional can be applied to our own lives - we just have to find the parallel and draw on it. Keller brings understanding into the Word and the beauty of these Proverbs. Each devotional is insightful and thought-provoking - and sometimes convicting - as well as easily understandable for a daily devotion. Towards the end of the year, Keller steps out of Proverbs but with his sight still on wisdom brings us verses from Job and Ecclesiastes to complete our journey on the way of wisdom.
I began this devotional in June last year and completed it in June this year. I plan to have another go at the devotional on the Psalms as I really want to understand them more and when I first tried the devotional I found it a tad heavy. But this on Proverbs is easy to understand and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My dog even decided he liked it one day when I was out and I came home to its cover being ripped and the book chewed somewhat but the book itself was still in tact and able to read. My mum took that copy and worked her way through it while I bought myself a new one.
I thoroughly recommend this easy to understand daily devotional. Having themes brings a perspective that we today can relate to. Highly recommended.
MEET THE AUTHOR:
Timothy Keller is the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, which he started in 1989 with his wife, Kathy, and three young sons. For 28 years he led a diverse congregation of young professionals that grew to a weekly attendance of over 5,000.
He is also the Chairman & Co-Founder of Redeemer City to City (CTC), which starts new churches in New York and other global cities, and publishes books and resources for ministry in an urban environment. In 2017 Dr. Keller transitioned to CTC full time to teach and mentor church planters and seminary students through a joint venture with Reformed Theological Seminary's (RTS), the City Ministry Program. He also works with CTC's global affiliates to launch church planting movements.
Dr. Keller’s books, including the New York Times bestselling The Reason for God and The Prodigal God, have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into 25 languages.
Christianity Today has said, “Fifty years from now, if evangelical Christians are widely known for their love of cities, their commitment to mercy and justice, and their love of their neighbors, Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians.”
Dr. Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. He previously served as the pastor of West Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Hopewell, Virginia, Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, and Director of Mercy Ministries for the Presbyterian Church in America.
In June 2020, Keller revealed that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died under hospice care at home in Manhattan on May 19, 2023, at age 72.
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