You cannot truly know someone unless you know what makes them truly happy. Our pleasure is the measure of our character. So it is with God. We cannot fully know the greatness of his glory without knowing what makes him happy. We must therefore understand the pleasures of God.
This is not a book about you. It is about the One for whom you were created: God himself. In this theological tour de force, Pastor John Piper navigates the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God reveal about Him so that we may become like the One we behold.
Knowing and loving, looking at and embracing, the great, glorious, sovereign, and joyful God of the Bible is what the Church and our world today need more than anything else.
"A rich feast for the serious believer." — John MacArthur, pastor-teacher, Grace Community Church.
"Do not walk, but run to get this remarkable book." — Joni Eareckson Tada
John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 1980, is a respected theologian and author. He is a graduate of Wheaton College, Fuller Seminary, and holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Munich. His books, including Desiring God, Don't Waste Your Life, and Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, have sold more than 2 million copies. He and his wife, Noël, have four sons and one daughter.
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: At the Dawn of the Millennium
- Introduction: How the Book Came to Be
- God's Pleasure in His Son
- God's Pleasure in All That He Does
- God's Pleasure in His Creation
- God's Pleasure in His Fame
- God's Pleasure in Election
- God's Pleasure in Bruising the Son
- God's Pleasure in Doing Good to All Who Hope in Him
- God's Pleasure in the Prayers of the Upright
- God's Pleasure in Personal Obedience and Public Justice
- God's Pleasure in Hiding from the Wise and Revealing to Children
- Epilogue: Almost Too Good to Be True: A Final Word of Hope
- Appendix: Are There Two Wills in God?
- Notes
Author: John Piper
ISBN: 9782895760672