| Category: |
Christian Living
Bible Studies & Devotionals |
| Format: | Layflat |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Size: | 7.375 in x 9.25 in |
| Weight: | 9.47 ounces |
| ISBN-10: | 1-4335-5554-9 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4335-5554-1 |
| ISBN-UPC: | 9781433555541 |
| Case Quantity: | 50 |
| Published: | March 31, 2018 |
The American Dream beckons people to spend their lives on trivial diversions, slipping through life caught up with seeking success, comfort, and pleasure above all else. But God designed people for far more than this.
This study guide is designed to be used in a ten-session, guided group study that examines each chapter of the best-selling book Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper. It contains clearly defined objectives for each lesson, questions for reflection and discussion, a leader’s guide, supplemental resources, and blank pages for note taking—all to stimulate life-changing group discussion to consider Piper’s passionate plea to make our lives count for eternity
Author:
John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; and Providence.
Product Details
Table of Contents
Introduction to This Study Guide
Lesson 1 Introduction to Don’t Waste Your Life
Lesson 2 My Search for a Single Passion to Live By
Lesson 3 Breakthrough—The Beauty of Christ, My Joy
Lesson 4 Boasting Only in the Cross, the Blazing Center of the Glory of God
Lesson 5 Magnifying Christ through Pain and Death
Lesson 6 Risk Is Right—Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It and The Goal of Life—Gladly Making Others Glad in God
Lesson 7 Living to Prove He Is More Precious Than Life
Lesson 8 Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5
Lesson 9 The Majesty of Christ in Missions and Mercy: A Plea to This Generation
Lesson 10 Review and Conclusion
Leader’s Guide
Appendix A A Five-Session Intensive Option
Appendix B Leading Productive Discussions
Appendix C Weekly Activity Log
Appendix D List of Helpful Resources
A Note on Resources: Desiring God Ministries
Endorsements
“Risk is right. Be mastered by one thing. Make much of Christ and him crucified. Those exhortations—and many more like them—are just as relevant today as they were twenty years ago. As a young man, I was captivated by Piper’s pleas for ‘fear-defeating joy in Jesus Christ.’ I still need this message, but now I want my children to hear it as well. I’m confident, and prayerful, that God will continue to use this powerful book for twenty more years and beyond.”
Kevin DeYoung, Senior Pastor, Christ Covenant Church, Matthews, North Carolina; Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte
“This message changed my generation. I hope it will change the next ones too. We never grow out of the need to be reminded that God demands our souls, our lives, our all.”
Collin Hansen, Editor in Chief, The Gospel Coalition; author, Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation