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Don't waste your life / John Piper. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway Books, (c)2003.Description: 191 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781581344981
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV4501.P665.D668 2003
  • BV4501
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Contents:
Breakthrough : the beauty of Christ, my joy -- Boasting only in the cross, the blazing center of the glory of God -- Magnifying Christ through pain and death -- Risk is right : better to lose your life than to waste it -- The goal of life : gladly making others glad in God -- Living to prove He is more precious than life -- Making much of Christ from 8 to 5 -- The majesty of Christ in missions and mercy : a plea to this generation -- My prayer : let none say in the end, "I've wasted it".
Subject: "John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. 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. 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. See my shells.' That is a tragedy" --Cover, pages 4.
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My search for a single passion to live by -- Breakthrough : the beauty of Christ, my joy -- Boasting only in the cross, the blazing center of the glory of God -- Magnifying Christ through pain and death -- Risk is right : better to lose your life than to waste it -- The goal of life : gladly making others glad in God -- Living to prove He is more precious than life -- Making much of Christ from 8 to 5 -- The majesty of Christ in missions and mercy : a plea to this generation -- My prayer : let none say in the end, "I've wasted it".

"John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. 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. 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. See my shells.' That is a tragedy" --Cover, pages 4.

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