For many Christians, the teachings of Tim Keller have been transformative in their relationship with Christ and their understanding of the gospel. After spending hours reviewing Keller's speeches, sermons, books, and interviews Smethurst has provided the reader with a beautiful summary broken up into a number of categories, including God and prayer, work, and friendship, to name of few. Woven throughout the chapters he has also shown how God used various circumstances, individuals, and experiences to transform Keller's own understanding of scripture and develop his preaching and teaching.
Smethurst is a gifted writer whose engaging writing style drew me in from page one and left me disappointed when I reached the end. What Smethurst does best is take a book focused on Keller yet draw the readers eyes to Christ. One can not read this book with out being filled with such awe over the goodness of our God and the incomprehensible depths of his sovereignty over all things. This book is a treasured addition to my personal library and one I will pick up again and again to read, review, and meditate on.

This is an excellent summation of the some of the sermons given by Tim Keller during his long preaching ministry. It covers various topics such as work, friends, and suffering, but I found the chapter on prayer particularly helpful.

I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it to all Christians.

Thanks to NetGalley and Crossway. I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Wonderful read. I love Keller's teaching, though many books of his are so comprehensive that it can be hard to approach them (still working through his book on prayer). Having a resource like this that approaches each topic with the best, most applicable parts of his theology is extremally helpful. A few specific praises:

1. I really feel as though I am getting Keller's teaching, and not just the authors interpretation.

2. As it accurately summarizes Keller's teaching, the book also accurately points to the heart of it, the gospel of Christ.

3. The book leads me to Keller's work. I came out of many chapters wanting to interact with Keller's teaching directly through his books/teaching/etc.

All that being said, I don't know who I would recommend this book to. The challenge I've been thinking through reading this is where a book like this fits. For most, I would recommend one of Keller's own books, to interact with his teaching directly, much before I would recommend this. Yet, I see myself coming back to specific chapters here in the future.

I’m an avid Tim Keller podcast listener, so I really expected to love this book. I found myself really struggling to figure out the significance of what the author was trying to express in many instances in this book.

There is a flower in every meadow.

Every page of this book shines like gold.

Each concept, each quote, each anecdote is powerful and beautiful.

I would be shocked if I read a more transformative book this year.

Matt Smethurst is like a treasure hunter, searching through the depths of decades of Tim Keller’s books, articles, sermons, teachings, interviews, and more to bring us the very best.

Each chapter synthesizes Keller’s teachings on an aspect of the Christian life. My favorite chapters were on friendship, prayer, and suffering—but not a single chapter disappointed.

This is a work that honors Keller and his love—Jesus Christ.

Thank you, Matt.
Thank you, Tim.
Thank you, Jesus.

Amazing reflection of the life of Tim Keller that ultimately points to Christ. As a Christian who hasn't listened to a message from Tim Keller, this book convinced me to look up som sermons. I do wonder who is the target audience for this book. Is it for someone like me who knows the gospel (because this book is much easier for someone who knows the gospel), but hasn't explored Keller's ministry? Maybe for the person who just misses Tim Keller? I gleaned much from this book, glad I read it.