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Sep 22
42m 36s

The Search for Pleasure

TIM KELLER
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When you go on a spiritual search, there are problems people always run into. One of them is the problem of pain. But there’s also the problem of pleasure. I don’t think I’ve ever really talked to anybody who said, “I have trouble believing in God because of pleasure. Why is there pleasure in the world?” But my thesis, and the Ecclesiastes writer’s thesis, i ... Show More
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