{"id":111272,"date":"2022-04-12T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111272"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:54:30","slug":"tish-warren-via-nyt-tim-keller-for-holy-week-how-a-cancer-diagnosis-makes-jesus-death-and-resurrection-mean-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111272","title":{"rendered":"(Tish Warren via NYT) Tim Keller for Holy Week&#8211;How a Cancer Diagnosis Makes Jesus\u2019 Death and Resurrection Mean More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How has cancer and this encounter with your own mortality changed how you see your life and how you see death?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On an emotional level, we really do deny the fact that we\u2019re mortal and our time is limited. The day after my diagnosis, one of the words I put down in my journal was \u201cfocus.\u201d What are the most important things for you to be spending your time doing? I had not been focused.<\/p>\n<p>The second change was you realize that there\u2019s one sense in which if you believe in God, it\u2019s a mental abstraction. You believe with your head. I came to realize that the experiential side of my faith really needed to strengthen or I wasn\u2019t going to be able to handle this.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to believe God loves you, another thing to actually feel his love. It\u2019s one thing to believe he\u2019s present with you. It\u2019s another to actually experience his presence. So the two things I wrote down in my journal: one was focus and the other one was \u201cKnow the Lord.\u201d My experience of his presence and his love was going to have to double, triple, quintuple or I wouldn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/10\/opinion\/timothy-keller-cancer-easter.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m thankful to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tish_H_Warren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tish_H_Warren<\/a> who interviewed me for this article. It was a joy to discuss the impact the resurrection has on our lives (and my cancer).<\/p>\n<p>How a Cancer Diagnosis Makes Jesus\u2019 Death and Resurrection Mean More <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dIQn4VMmU4\">https:\/\/t.co\/dIQn4VMmU4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timkellernyc\/status\/1513495585462132748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has cancer and this encounter with your own mortality changed how you see your life and how you see death? On an emotional level, we really do deny the fact that we\u2019re mortal and our time is limited. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111272\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,571,178,104,570,98,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-easter","category-eschatology","category-health-medicine","category-holy-week","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111275,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111272\/revisions\/111275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}