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Praise for The Pleasures of God“The Pleasures of God is perhaps the most important book that John Piper has written. It is certainly the freshest and most penetrating. Many preachers and writers are calling Christians today to be more Godcentered. The irony is that even the call to be God-centered focuses attention on us, on what we must do. Certainly the Bible spends no small part of its pages telling us what we must do, but it does so out of profound God-centeredness. And here is a book that does not tell us what we must do to be God-centered; it simply is God-centered. Intoxicating.”—D. A. Carson, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School“There are quite a few books every Christian should read. And there are some that need to be read a second time to really digest them. But then there are a select few that should be read and reread and reread…perhaps every year. John Piper’s The Pleasures of God belongs on that ‘to be reread every year’ list.”—Randy Newman, campus minister and author of Questioning Evangelism“John Piper takes ten of God’s expressed ‘delights’ and searches their significance and implications with rare zeal. What a privilege to have someone think through these biblical realities so lovingly and seek out our biblical reactions so keenly. If all Christian books were offerings on an Australian barbecue, this would be one of the juiciest steaks around—hot, healthy, and wonderful.”—Simon Manchester, senior minister, St. Thomas Church, North Sydney, Australia“In Desiring God, John Piper introduced us to the idea that the pursuit of God’s glory and the pursuit of our joy are not at odds, for the pursuit of God’s glory is our joy. In The Pleasures of God, Piper helps us to see that God’s glory is revealed in great part in what makes Him happy. The Pleasures of God is an invitation to meditate on what makes Godhappy. If what makes God happy reveals His glory, and if we become like Him as we behold His glory (2 Corinthians 3:18), then meditating on the pleasures of God will be a means for increased joy in God and gradual conformity into His likeness. If that is your desire, then take up this new edition and read it over and over again.”—Juan R. Sanches Jr., preaching pastor, High Pointe Baptist Church, Austin, Texas“This book is breathtaking in both its scope and its focus and constitutes a joyful yet prophetic call to adore and worship God—whose infinite worth and excellence is revealed in what he loves and delights in. It is at once beautiful and moving, serious, stretching, and profound. The Pleasures of God surely ranks with J. I. Packer’s Knowing God as one of the most profoundly moving and world-view forming Christian books of modern times.”—Reverend Richard M. Cunningham, CEO of Intervarsity UK“Few books are genuinely life-changing. The Pleasures of God by John Piper is clearly one of them. I’ve often said to people, ‘If I were on a desert island and could have only three books, in addition to the Bible, I’d choose Desiring God and The Pleasures of God by John Piper.’”—Sam Storms, president, Enjoying God Ministries, Kansas City, Missouri“Books have profound potential—particularly the one you hold in your hand. John Piper is saturated with God, and his passion fills the pages of this book.”—C. J. Mahaney, Sovereign Grace Ministries“Run, don’t walk, to buy this remarkable work.”—Joni Eareckson Tada and Steven Estes“I encourage you to read [The Pleasures of God] twice; once to see the portrait as a whole, a second time to savor the sheer delight of loving a God so magnificent, so excellent, so holy.”—Erwin W. Lutzer, senior pastor, The Moody Church“In our fallen world, staring at the sun blinds us. But, by God’s grace, contemplating God gives us spiritual sight. Of all of Pastor John’s books, this is the most radical. Get this vision of God, and begin to see.”—Mark Dever, pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC
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About the Author
JOHN PIPER is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For thirty-three years, he served as pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. He is the author of more than fifty books, including the contemporary classic Desiring God, and more than thirty years of his sermons and articles are available, free of charge, at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noël, have five children and twelve grandchildren.
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Multnomah; Revised, Expanded edition (June 26, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576736652
ISBN-13: 978-1576736654
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6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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This book is amazing. John Piper, as always, has such great insight. His orientation is GOD focused, not man focused which is so needed in today's culture. The title of this book makes you think it will be about the pleasures to be found in God, when really it is about what brings GOD pleasure - not what brings man pleasure. The great thing is though, that when we are aligned with God, what brings him pleasure also brings us pleasure. I definitely recommend this book. It seems very seldom we are taught to stop looking at what we want out of God and to study God's character by looking at what brings him happiness and pleasure. Very enriching - a book that you can read over and over again.
John Piper shares the encouragement he found personally in reading Henry Scougal's correspondence. The concept Scougal gave wing to, and sent out into the world of thought is, "The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love".As I continue to unhurriedly savor my way on the path to higher ground, I am pleased to follow in the path Piper blazes toward the unapproachable Light whom no man has seen, nor can see at any time.I recently read what Dr. Mardy Grothe wrote, ". In the lives of countless people over the centuries, a life-altering book can be as influential as a lifetime of instruction from family members, clergy, and teachers.It happened several times with Ralph Waldo Emerson... In 1840, he sent a copy of Augustine's book [confessions of St. Augustine] to a friend along with this revealing note: "It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us... and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again." You will draw nearer to Paradise reading "The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God" by John Piper, it seems to me.
John does very well with his 'pleasures of being a Christian' theme, which some may know from other works of his. I skipped over the section on family for reasons of my own and found that, as usual, John had written the book so that portions can be skipped without causing a problem following other portions (I wish I had that talent). I found this book refreshing and renewing, thankful that John had once again shown from Scripture that our God is a happy God and that He takes pleasure in our taking pleasure in Him.
Piper's concern is to remind us that this grace in which we stand in relation to God, is a condition of joy and delight rather than grudging discipline. As the herald of Christian hedonism he prophetically calls Christians away from the drabness of explicit or implicit practical legalism. Too many Evangelicals consider discipleship as a general, stoical acceptance of toilsome religious duties and an unhappy scepticism of anything that gives pleasure. Paraphrasing H. L. Mencken, Piper is fighting against the "suspicion that someone, somewhere is enjoying themselves" as the prevailing character of Christian life.Piper eloquently points us away from ourselves and toward God's Person as the sine qua non for true human living. In this book he undertakes to help us avoid a very real pitfall that causes many Christians to stumble. He seeks to remind us that it is a very subtle form of self-worship which understands our relation to God as being one where God's ultimate purpose is to make us happy and complete. Too often Christians are so caught up with the idea that "God has a wonderful plan for our life.." that we can get to thinking that God's whole reason for Being is so that WE can be happy. Piper does a good job in this book of showing us that our lives and indeed all of creation, is not about US, it is about HIM! God's Delight is what is of first importance. Our happiness is a by-product of that Delight when God enables and motivates us to enter into His joy. It is a very important point and one that is difficult for a consumer oriented generation of Christians to appropriate for themselves or teach others.I was struck by the ease with which Piper strengthens his writing by taking on the questions that can distract us from finding our delight in God's Person and thereby entering into His Joy. Specifically, in this book, I found his handling of the question of God's electing grace to be wonderfully concise yet remarkably thorough. It is not easy to connect the dots between God's sovereignty and His delight in that sovereignty and our joy in being the objects of that sovereignty, yet Piper does as good a job as I have ever seen. For those of us who fell in love with the doctrine years ago, it will not add much in the way of new insights, but he provides us a very accessible manner of communicating it to others, and that alone makes this book worth reading.I will admit that in this book, as in Desiring God before it, I could never escape the feeling that he is too anthropomorphic in his characterizations of God. Though he often affirms God's transcendent nature, yet his practical focus tends to keep "bringing God down to our level" rather than lifting us up to His.Piper's central purpose in this book is to tell us about God's delight : how He delights in Himself as the Triune God, how He delights in all the things He does, etc. Piper wants to point us toward God's pleasure as a real and controlling principle for all that we are to understand about Him. This is right and good. It is also true that the Scriptures continually remind us of God's pleasure in doing things, and His contentment in His work, and His joy in various people especially His Son. The problem comes in when Piper implicitly presents God's pleasure as being essentially like our pleasure. He does not adequately convey to us that the Scriptural discussion of God's pleasure, joy and delight, reflects God's condescension to us. It gives us a way to think about God in terms of something that we know and can experience. It is true that man being created in the image of God is able to draw some analogs between those things he finds in himself and their equivalent aspect in God's character. But there are decided limits that must be observed.Man cannot reconcile his own pleasure with his own displeasure. Man cannot be simultaneously content and agitated with anger. Man cannot experience the sense of well-being as he is engaged in the outflow of passions. All this is to say that man is sequential and finite. God is neither. God's delight can never be opposed to His "unhappiness" about sin. God's pleasure is never distinct from His wrath. God does not move from one mood to another. We can think of Him in terms that we recognize and seek to worship Him for the knowledge of Himself that He communicates to us in those terms, but we must stop well short of identifying God or His attributes with those things. God is incomprehensible to us in His Being. His delight is ultimately incomprehensible also. He is God and we are not. The Creator who is outside of all creation can never be understood in His essence through the use of terms which are limited by their correspondence to creation.This does not pose a barrier to anything that Piper desires to do. God intends for us to think of Him in terms of being angry at sin and wrathful toward those who commit it. Alternately, when WE think of Him looking down from heaven on the baptism of His Son, it is right and proper that we should think of His Heart overflowing with pride and joy at the event, even as we parents have that experience when we bring our children to be baptized. It is absolutely proper for us to think that way. But we must always keep in mind that God is above and beyond that description. His Heart did not overflow with joy at that particular moment in any way that would make His level of joy greater than it had been before. In fact , we can't even consider, from God's point of view, that there was a "before" and an "after" since God is beyond time.I know that the mind boggles at this point and that practical Christianity cannot constantly abide in the realm of God's incomprehensibility. That is why God adopts anthropomorphic terms when He speaks to us and why He allows us to think about Him in those ways. But, and this is where I think Piper needs to improve His work, we must not go too far down the pathway that these terms open up for us. We must not ever forget that the wonder of God is most manifested in the way that His incomprehensible fullness was incarnated in a finite body. The wonder of that cannot be described and it is lost when we identify the finite with that which only infinity can covey.That being said, I must again affirm that this is a very good book for Christians to use and encourage others to use. Piper's heart comes through on every page and he has something very important to say.
Have you ever wondered why God does what he does? Have you ever wondered what God's ultimate aim is? John Piper answers these questions with incredible precision and solid Biblical support in his usual, passionate, heartfelt, worshipful style. God's ult8imate aim is to display and uphold the infinate value of his own glory. His aim isn't to preserve man's autonomy or 'free will' as some would say. God is the most valuable being in the universe who deserves to be loved, cherished and admired above all things even man. Man is not the center of the universe. God is. He does all things for his self and, as Piper tries to point out, for our good. The two are not at odds with each other. As another reviewer has said, this is one of Pipers more difficult books to read. If you are of an Arminian persuasion then be warned, John is staunchly Calvinistic even though he rarely mentions the word Calvinism in his books. If you are not familiar with reading Theological works then prepared to be stretched and placed into the world of an inftinately valuable and glorious God.
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