Personal Archives - Dee Brestin Ministries

To Be Called Your Son

with 36 comments by Dee Brestin

The Younger Son Knew How To Apologize - and So Do My Grandkids! https://deebrestin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AQNVNsFB_iTHEJFDQSz6oL5T4JcvuQHp_7i_5RITdbLjj0Z6A8hFphfJ40z8xkAOtI6l9U4_Kq7IO4QQY4D4b7kLKqc1vpSs1HfLxvIjhX-Cnw.mp4 In a good apology you make no excuses or justifications, you show ...

Personal

He Came To Himself

with 149 comments by Dee Brestin

"He came to his senses." When I was being interviewed about Idol Lies on 100 Huntley Street, my Canadian interviewer probed me about my sin of being passive-aggressive, wondering why ...

Personal

GIVE ME MINE!

with 187 comments by Dee Brestin

When Kathy Keller heard Tim's message on this parable, she told him it was the most important sermon he'd ever preached. It certainly is a paradigm changer. I panicked a ...

Personal

New Study for 2026!

with 128 comments by Dee Brestin

If you are new here, just make a comment and put in your name and e-mail the first time you come online, and check the box to be saved. (Your ...

Personal

Advent 4: Real Change in 2026!

with 123 comments by Dee Brestin

Christmas Day is past, but Keller has insight for how fruit can flow from our lives in 2026. It's hidden in: "Let it be to me according to Thy Word," ...

Personal

Advent # 3 Tim and Kathy Keller. The Magi

with 93 comments by Dee Brestin

Free pexels photo by Jonathan Meyer Leave it to Tim Keller to show me something new from this familiar Christmas passage. Just as he has said ...

Personal

Advent #2 with Tim and Kathy Keller. Fully God, Fully Man

with 139 comments by Dee Brestin

Free photo by Pixabay One of C. S. Lewis's most famous quotes, and one that helped me understand who Jesus really was: In this Advent message, ...

Personal

Advent #1 With Tim and Kathy Keller

with 105 comments by Dee Brestin

Sharing the Beauty of Advent Together! Free Unsplash Photo by Anthony Delanoix During Covid in 2021, Tim and Kathy Keller recorded 4 Advent Sermons. They run between ...

Personal

Thanksgiving Weekend 2025

with 145 comments by Dee Brestin

I do know that today is actually the first Sunday in Advent, but I wanted to cap off Thanksgiving with one of my favorite "Thanksgiving" sermons from Keller. We'll begin ...

Personal

FRIENDSHIP PART II

with 109 comments by Dee Brestin

I'd love to be around the table with all of you. There is something sacramental about breaking bread together with dear friends, especially with brethren who share the same love, ...

Personal

Friendship Part I

with 147 comments by Dee Brestin

What wonderful friendships we have developed on this blog, not superficial but deep because of the Lord knitting us together. Indeed, blest be the Tie that binds! We are different, ...

Personal

True Wisdom Part II

with 106 comments by Dee Brestin

Jesus is in every book of the Bible, including Proverbs. This week is such a beautiful passage. I love how Keller brings out from the Hebrew that our Lord "frolicked" ...

Personal

True Wisdom Part I.

with 105 comments by Dee Brestin

In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom. The wisdom of Christ created the world and the double rainbow Laura saw last week in New Hampshire. [caption id="attachment_56590" align="aligncenter" ...

Personal

Hospitality Part II.

with 140 comments by Dee Brestin

When I think of the stranger, someone who is different from me, it opens so many doors: the young, the handicapped, the very poor, the immigrant, one of the 400 ...

Personal

Hospitality Part I.

with 142 comments by Dee Brestin

How do you feel when a surprise visitor turns up? Free pexels photo by RDNE Long ago, when my husband was looking to practice with other ...