God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. Piper places a heavy emphasis on the objective and absolute nature of truth and is confident in the Christian's ability to grasp that truth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Don't Waste Your Life Quotes Showing 1-30 of 95. Piper's motto in ministry, preaching, and teaching is: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls those who live out this motto Christian Hedonists. John Stephen Piper is a Reformed and Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1994, he founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides all of Piper's sermons and articles from the past three decades, and most of his books online free of charge, as well as offering for sale books, CDs, and DVDs and regularly hosting conferences. Piper hit the evangelical scene after the publication of his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986) and has continued to publish dozens of other books further articulating this theological perspective. In 1980, after what he described as an "irresistible call of the Lord to preach", Piper became Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has been ministering ever since. The evangelical organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986). Dont Waste Your Life By John Piper Other Retailers Format: Availability: Out of Print Related Titles: God at Work Rethinking Retirement View All John Piper writes, 'I will tell you what a tragedy is. His books include ECPA Christian Book Award winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of Jesus Christ. Is a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If you believe that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to live for Christ, and don't waste your life! It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion. Socrates said, The unexamined life is not worth living. I would like to encourage you to make some autumn resolutions. Any and all resolutions for good have God’s approval if we resolve by faith in Jesus. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. And mid-year, and three-quarters-year, and monthly, and weekly, and daily resolutions. Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives." The wasted life is the life without this passion. "God created us to live with a single passion to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells.' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. He lived there, as simply as he felt he could, for two years, two months, and two days. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. In the summer of 1845, Henry David Thoreau (18171862) moved into a small, spartan cabin he had built on the wooded edge of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion.John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. In this best-selling book, John Piper makes a passionate plea to the next generation to avoid the dangers of a wasted life, calling us to take risks and. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is.
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