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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist | 
 enlarge | Author: John Piper
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 9734
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised and Expanded
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 358
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1590521196
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
EAN: 9781590521199
ASIN: 1590521196
Publication Date: March 1, 2003
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Product Description
Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering classic, newly revised and expanded, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delight is our duty. Readers will embark on a dramatically different and joyful experience of their faith
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 Piper is the best there is today. January 3, 2009
This book rocked my world to its core. The ideas and concepts in this book are the most inspiring things I have ever read aside from The Word itself. This is a profound and amazing work. But it is not light reading. Passages need to be pored over and meditated upon. Spend some time letting these truths sink in deep.
Prepare to leave your pride at the door and enter in ready to give God all the glory. If you are a proud person or do not relish God's all encompassing sovereignty, you will reject much of this book as offensive. But if you thirst for God's glory and making much of Him (instead of Him making much of you), you will revel in the truths Piper provides here.
I really enjoyed it December 30, 2008
This book "Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist" by John Piper will help people build a relationship with their God. Our number one mission should be to Glorify God and by doing so we will get in return eternal peace and joy. I think you will also enjoy the chapter on "The Happiness of God."
I see from reading the reviews on this site some people have recommend my book, "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone," and again I just want them to know how much I appreciate their recommendation, especially at such a excellent site. I wrote this book out of love and for the glory of God and Jesus, not for my own fame or fortune. I welcome people to read my book, I'm sure you'll find this non-fiction account of a loving God just as positive and inspiring
 Good Title December 11, 2008
Piper is an interesting man. He has an interesting look on faith. Good or bad, I haven't decided. But the book is worth it.
Read, Repent, Rejoice! September 8, 2008
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Desiring God (Audio-book Review)
Audio-books are an excellent gift, as they can be listened to and enjoyed many times and places reading cannot. I bought this as a wedding gift for a dear friend and his new bride. To be honest I don't read as much as I should, but I am always listening. The narrator is supurb and strangely delightful to hear.
John Piper is without a doubt one of the most influential authors and speakers in the Evangelical Church today, and a man to whom I owe a great debt of thanks. When I read a book for the first time, especially theological works, I try to keep my guard up against letting a book "get to me" or affect me in any real meaningful way without time to ponder and pray before discussion and review. Desiring God broke down all my defenses and had me on my knees before I knew what hit me! It took all my will to finish it completely I was so eager to read it again. This book has restored true joy and fulfillment in my life and relationship with my Lord and Savior. Piper sees clearly that the majority of Christians today are "too content" with their relationship to God and that their real longing and desires (where their "joy" is found) are misplaced in the lusts of the world. Piper's book, Desiring God, has brought a new light to my understanding of who our Triune God really is, the source and overflowing fountain of true desire and joy He has in Himself. To desire what God desires is to find true happiness in this life and the next eternal (and THAT is not evil). Read it at least twice.
 Book tells wives to be submissive to husbands and to avoid a "cocky" attitude September 5, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Piper's book was shallow, repetitive, and not useful. He also has a painfully bad writing style that was tiring to wade through. He advocates disturbing things like wives always being submissive to their husbands. He warns wives not to be "cocky" in their behavior to their husbands. Repellent, ugly stuff.
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