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John Piper (1) (1946–)

Autore di Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

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John Piper (1) ha come alias John Stephen Piper.

410+ opere 88,514 membri 341 recensioni 165 preferito

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Opere di John Piper

Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias John Stephen Piper.

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986) 6,538 copie, 34 recensioni
Don't Waste Your Life (2003) 5,427 copie, 32 recensioni
Let the Nations Be Glad! (1993) 3,768 copie, 8 recensioni
When I Don't Desire God (2004) 2,739 copie, 9 recensioni
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (2001) 2,701 copie, 5 recensioni
Future Grace (1995) 2,424 copie, 7 recensioni
The Supremacy of God in Preaching (1990) — Autore — 2,279 copie, 10 recensioni
What Jesus Demands from the World (2006) 1,924 copie, 5 recensioni
This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence (2009) 1,448 copie, 4 recensioni
The Dangerous Duty of Delight (2001) 1,410 copie, 8 recensioni
Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again (2009) 1,367 copie, 4 recensioni
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God (2010) 1,274 copie, 8 recensioni
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (2006) 965 copie, 5 recensioni
Contending for Our All (2006) 919 copie
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (2005) 908 copie, 3 recensioni
Providence (2021) 694 copie, 1 recensione
Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce (2007) 664 copie, 2 recensioni
The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World (2007) 648 copie, 2 recensioni
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (2011) 485 copie, 6 recensioni
Don't Waste Your Life, Group Study Edition (2007) 472 copie, 4 recensioni
Coronavirus and Christ (2020) 422 copie, 5 recensioni
The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God (2002) 410 copie, 1 recensione
The Power of Words and the Wonder of God (2009) 327 copie, 1 recensione
The Innkeeper (1998) 224 copie, 1 recensione
Thinking. Loving. Doing.: A Call to Glorify God with Heart and Mind (2011) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 223 copie
For Your Joy (2005) 196 copie, 2 recensioni
In Our Joy (2007) 148 copie
The Prodigal's Sister (2003) 135 copie, 1 recensione
Don't Waste Your Cancer (2011) 125 copie
Lessons from a Hospital Bed (2016) 102 copie, 1 recensione
Seeing and savoring Jesus Christ 86 copie, 1 recensione
JOB (Old Testament) (2002) 54 copie
Esther (2012) 53 copie
Why We Believe the Bible (2009) 46 copie
The Gadarene (2010) 42 copie
Letter to a Friend (2014) 39 copie
A Baptist Catechism (1992) 36 copie
David Brainerd 12 copie
John G. Paton 11 copie
Adoniram Judson 11 copie
Le Coronavirus et Christ (2020) 8 copie
A Tribute To My Father (2013) 6 copie
Martin Luther 2 copie
Gedeeld geluk 1 copia
The Blazing Center — Autore — 1 copia
The True Purpose of Marriage 1 copia, 1 recensione
Learning to Savor the Love of God 1 copia, 1 recensione
Awakening Your Appetite for God 1 copia, 1 recensione

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Overcoming Sin and Temptation (2006) — Prefazione — 1,285 copie, 3 recensioni
Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution (2007) — Prefazione — 1,026 copie, 3 recensioni

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I'll summarize "Don't Waste Your Life" in the following quote taken from chapter 1:

"This was the great coming together for me - the breakthrough. What was life about? What was it for? Why do I exist? Why am I here? To be happy? Or to glorify God? Unspoken for years, there was in me the feeling that these two were at odds. Either you glorify God or your pursue happiness. One seemed absolutely right; the other seemed absolutely inevitable. And that is why I was confused and frustrated for so long.

Compounding the problem was that many who seemed to emphasize the glory of God in their thinking did not seem to enjoy him much. And many who seemed to enjoy God most were defective in their thinking about his glory. But now here was the greatest mind of early America, Jonathan Edwards, saying that God's purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God's glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion."

This was a major breakthrough for me, as well. Revolutionary!
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thesthomp | 31 altre recensioni | Jul 16, 2024 |
This book is written from a pastor to pastors as a warning against the trap of "professionalism" that so many find themselves stumbling into today. He argues that Christlike traits such as childlikeness, tenderheartedness, and dedication to prayer clash are what we should be seeking emulate in our lives and in ministry.

Even though I'm not a pastor, this book was a good read and gave me insight into the need for Christlike character over professionalism.
 
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thesthomp | 28 altre recensioni | Jul 16, 2024 |
While I agree with much of Piper's message in this book, I found it a bit long-winded and repetitive. Not to mention boring - especially the first half.

There were a few times when I cringed at the author's choice of words or examples, even though I understood what he was getting at. Hopefully others won't be put off by these things the way I was, but instead be challenged and encouraged because, as I said, the message is a good one.
 
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RachelRachelRachel | 31 altre recensioni | Nov 21, 2023 |
*Overall Thoughts

I appreciated that the authors continually came back to the fact that women are valuable and that just because they serve a different function than men does not mean that they or their function are “less than."

The following quote sums up their view, I believe:
“In the home when a husband leads like Christ and a wife responds like the bride of Christ, there is a harmony and mutuality that is more beautiful and more satisfying than any pattern of marriage created by man. ‘Biblical headship’ for the husband is the divine calling to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant-leadership, protection and provision in the home. ‘Biblical submission’ for the wife is the divine calling to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership and help carry it through according to her gifts. (pp 52-53)

On submission, they are clear to point out that submission “is not an absolute surrender of [a wife’s] will. Rather, we speak of her disposition to yield to her husband’s guidance and her inclination to follow his leadership…. Even when she may have to stand against the sinful will of her husband (e.g., 1 Peter 3:1, where she does not yield to her husband’s unbelief), she can still have a spirit of submission – a disposition to yield. She can show by her attitude and behavior that she does not like resisting his will and that she longs for him to forsake sin and lead in righteousness so that her disposition to honor him as head can again produce harmony.” (p 61)

On the analogy of the marriage relationship being a picture of Christ’s relationship with the church, the authors say, “We may not press the analogy between Christ and the husband [too] far. Unlike Christ, all husbands sin…. Not only that, but also, unlike Christ, a husband is not preparing a bride merely for himself, but for another, namely, Christ…. At this point he must not be Christ to his wife, lest he be a traitor to Christ. He must lead in such a way that his wife is encouraged to depend on Christ and not on himself. Practically, that rules out belittling supervision and fastidious oversight.” (p 64)

I’ve heard that this book is used as a textbook for various colleges and seminaries, and I can see how it would be more appropriate in that setting. It is incredibly thorough - for a layperson like myself, the bulk of it became very tedious and dry reading.

*Section I: Vision and Overview

I appreciated chapter one, which gave an overview of “biblical complementarity." Chapter two is a Q&A which basically just rehashed everything in chapter one, but in question format. This annoyed me.

*Section II: Exegetical and Theological Studies

This is where the book gets boring – the reading is very technical and dry. It’s also very choppy, as every two or three words there are parentheses to either clarify or reference various Bible verses, etc. Great for the theology student, not so thrilling for the layperson.

*Section III: Studies from Related Disciplines

There are five chapters, dealing with various issues that come up in the areas of church history, biology, psychology, sociology, and law.

I particularly enjoyed chapter fifteen on women in the history of the church and chapter sixteen on biology, which delves into the physiological differences between males and females.

*Section IV: Applications and Implications

I was very disappointed in this section. It truly doesn’t offer much in the way of applications, and as I am very practical in nature, application is what I look for the most in the books that I read! It also only had to do with marriage and children. There is a foreword “For Single Men and Women (and the Rest of Us)” that apparently was supposed to make us single people feel better about reading the book – sort of “You can still be masculine/feminine even if you’re not married!” but there was no real application at all for singles in either the foreword or the entire application section. This was very unfortunate.
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RachelRachelRachel | 7 altre recensioni | Nov 21, 2023 |

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