In fact, for the follower of Jesus, delight is the duty as Christ is most magnified in His people when they are most satisfied in Him.

Piper reveals that there really is no need to choose between duty and delight in the Christian life. Desiring God is a paradigm-shattering work that dramatically alters common perspectives on relating to God. According to John Piper, the pursuit of pleasure in God is not only permissible, it's essential. In this paradigm-shattering work, Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delight is our duty.īook Synopsis Experience the Lifelong Pleasures of Knowing God!. 11).About the Book Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. “But my aim is much more modest: to convey enough of his ministry and his own thought that ordinary ministers are encouraged, not least by the thought that the God of Augustine, Calvin, Spurgeon, and Piper is no less the God of Tom Carson, and of you and me” (p. Carson pays Piper no small compliment in the preface to Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson by mentioning him parallel to three other giants of the faith:

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Desiring God sermon series (text and audio).

In addition to selling the print book for just $9.50, Desiring God Ministries offers the following free resources: It shaped my attitude towards Reformed soteriology and convinced me that God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him.”

I read it as a freshman in college and again during my first year of seminary, and it had a revolutionary effect on my Christian life. “This richly theological and warmly devotional best-seller has been the means for sending countless Christians on a trajectory towards theology that is increasingly joyful, robust, God-centered, Christ-exalting, and gospel-treasuring. Q: “What Christian book (other than the Bible) do you think has been read by the most people attending T4G 2008, and why?” (Perhaps mine had the least misspelled words and the most Piper-like hyphenated ones! Regardless, I’m grateful for this happy providence and eager for edification along with about 5,000 other people at T4G in mid-April 2008.) Here’s Mark’s question followed by the 100-words-or-less answer I submitted: Mark Dever posed his eighth “T4Free question” on the T4G blog earlier this week, and I was surprised that my answer was selected.

Desiring God by John Piper