Making Sense of God
Timothy Keller
If you’ve been around our GoodReads for a while, then you know we keep recommending this one. That’s because it clearly unveils Secularism’s sore spots: on the loss of meaning, the distortion of freedom, and the difficulties with identity. Making Sense of God is the one-stop shop for why Christianity offers substantive solutions to perennial human problems.
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as . . . not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual thing to worship. . . . is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. . . . Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure, and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. . . . Worship power— you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart—you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
