His most recent, Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?, addresses America’s forgiveness crisis. Some of his bestsellers include The Prodigal God, The Meaning of Marriage and The Reason for God. Keller's books have also sold more than 3 million copies. In February, The Gospel Coalition, which Keller co-founded, announced the launch of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, an initiative designed to help pastors, young people and other Christian leaders adapt to a "post-Christendom culture." One of the most influential pastors of the last several decades, Keller has championed planting churches in urban areas through Redeemer City to City and popularized the term “Gospel-centered churches.” My wife and I would never want to go back to the kind of prayer life and spiritual life we had before the cancer, never," he said, adding that his cancer journey has led him to genuinely experience Psalm 90:14: "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." "This is going to sound like an exaggeration. Still, the pastor shared that he and his wife had seen their prayer lives grow and develop as they faced his diagnosis together. "This one could show that it's out of control." "You know that it doesn't matter how good the last one was," he said. However, he acknowledged that the cancer was “still there" and could "break out anytime." He added that every time he had a scan, he experienced "scanxiety."
I'm very, very grateful to God,” he said. “Most people are gone within months or a year I'm still going strong and I'm going into two-and-a-half years. In November, the pastor told The Christian Post that the treatments had kept his cancer at bay, keeping him “exactly where I was two-and-a-half years ago when I got the cancer diagnosis.” Keller is also a survivor of thyroid cancer, which he had in 2002. Please continue to pray during this slow recovery," she wrote at the time. “Tim is out of the hospital and recovering at home after complications from his treatment.
#TIM KELLER HEALTH UPDATE#
In an update Saturday, the pastor’s wife, Kathy Keller, revealed he had suffered “complications” from that treatment.
However, in March, the 72-year-old pastor revealed that new tumors had developed, requiring him to undergo a repeat of the immunotherapy treatment. Last year, he underwent immunotherapy at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, which he said at the time was “successful in eradicating 99% of the tumors.” Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, was initially diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in May 2020. Please continue to pray for his recovery,” Michael Keller, Tim Keller’s son, wrote on social media Wednesday morning. “A brief health update on my Dad: After being released from the hospital on Saturday, he returned late Sunday night to receive additional care. Tim Keller’s family has asked for continued prayers for the pastor and bestselling author as he recently returned to the hospital amid his ongoing battle with pancreatic cancer. Pastor Timothy Keller, founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, speaks at Movement Day Global Cities at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on October 27, 2016.
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