You will be humbled as you read. Pam Glass, Christian Book Previews. He has wrestled with his content, and the books final chapter is his prayer for the reader to not waste life, to be glad in God at any cost, to treasure Christ above life. John Piper has a way of presenting deep truth in a way that is engaging and understandable. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: Look, Lord. Piper tells of the couple that took early retirement in Florida, playing softball, cruising on their boat, and collecting seashells. Perhaps the illustration that captures the essence of the book best is the story from Readers Digest recounted in chapter three, and highlighted on the back cover. ![]() Pipers topic headings within each chapter are as thought provoking as the content: Is Eternal Life a Heaven Full of Mirrors? Shall We Prize What He Presents or What it Portrays of Him? I found the chapter Making Much of Christ From 8 to 5 very encouraging, and the subsequent chapter on missions was sobering. The writings of Jonathan Edwards provided a turning point in his realization of lifes purpose: The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples. This concept of joy has been dealt with in his earlier work, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist. He gives credit to his early influences at home, at college, and in his reading. The opening chapters are autobiographical, setting the stage for principles that follow. The style is easy, but the content will have you going back again and again to extract truth for deeper meditation. “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, ‘For Your sake we are being put to death all day long We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.John Piper has written another excellent book to add to his body of work Dont Waste Your Life (Crossway) is valuable reading. ![]() What He’s promised to His elect in Jesus Christ is worth the risk! At the end of every other road-secure and risk-free-we will put our face in our hands and say ‘I’ve wasted it!’” ![]() “It is right to serve the people of God, and say ‘If I perish, I perish!’ It is right to stand before the fiery furnace of affliction and refuse to bow down to the gods of this world. I used to waste my life and want no new manifestations of those temptations. And therefore it is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.” (Based off Luke 21:16) “It is the will of God that we be uncertain about how life on this earth will turn out for us. Human nature wants certainty about tomorrow. Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the. Below are 15 of the most popular quotations and excerpts from the book. In my ministry, I have often said after making a hard decision where both directions are painful, ‘This is why I love the gospel.’” In his best-selling book that has sold more than 1 million copies, Don‘t Waste Your Life, John Piper makes a passionate plea to the next generation to not waste their lives, but to live wholeheartedly for Christ. “Risk avoidance may be more sinful-more unloving-than taking the risk in faith and love and making a wrong decision. We believe in a gospel of grace when we sin. “It may not be loving to choose comfort or security when something great may be achieved for the cause of Christ and for the good of others.” To properly love someone, we must remember they possess a soul. If you take a risk you can lose money, you can lose face, you can lose your health or even your life.” “I define risk very simply as an action that exposes you to the possibility of loss or injury. I appreciate the clarity of his definition. (My comments are in italics Piper’s quotes are in parenthesis “”.) Christ’s power is made perfect in weakness (verse 9). To keep me from becoming conceited (verse 7). Paul mentions four purposes for his weaknesses. I’d like to recommend to you a short, readable booklet entitled “Risk is Right.” A free electronic version is available by clicking here (you can check out the webpage here.) To advance the message from last Sunday, I would like to share a few of my favorite quotes from this important booklet. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. In v.24, Jesus issued three mandates if we are to “come after Him.” We learned biblical Christianity will be dangerous Christianity. As though tables in a temple, Christ turned over their doctrines: the self-exaltation of personal preferences, the self-preservation of comforts and safety, the self-insulation that claims to love God, but disregards His people. ![]() The Word of our Lord did great harm to the beliefs of American Christianity (Matthew 16:24-27). (The following are my favorite quotes from the booklet “Risk is Right” by John Piper)
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