I want to thank you again for an exceptional conference. There are those moments when living here [in a remote location] gets overwhelming, not so much because of the task, but because of the isolation. I have been to other conferences, but none have refreshed the spirit like this pastors' conference. I don't think I could even identify a particular aspect of the conference through which God ministered to me. It would be more accurate, I think, to simply note EVERY aspect of the conference from parking to pastors as "soul food" for satisfying the weary heart.

I want to encourage you that your ministry is bearing fruit outside of Bethlehem Baptist and as far as your brothers and sisters to your north, Canada. I have had a fair amount of dealings with DG and am very impressed with your sincerity to glorify God. Not just in the materials you sell. I mean also in the people I have spoken with. I have dealings with a fair number of other over-the-phone mail-order ministries. You exceed them all in friendliness, helpfulness, integrity and sincerity. That speaks volumes in a world of plastic, fickle Christianity. DG appears to be much bigger than just a business (a distributor of tapes and books), but a God-blessed ministry promoting the sovereign glory of God as the richest treasure for the satisfaction of man.

I can't thank you enough for providing the DVD resource "The Blazing Center!" I have been hoping that Dr. Piper would produce a DVD version of the awesome truths he proclaims from the Word for God that can be used for Bible study! I can take this resource into my church and establish either a small group or a life group session and allow God's word to be taught directly by Dr. Piper! And, because the information is so structured, I can use this to establish a string of small groups throughout homes in the Lexington, SC area! I am so excited! I am a Biblical teacher, but I have found it difficult to communicate the truths of Christian Hedonism in the same way Dr. Piper does, with the same effect. Churches in America are in such a need of revival and a return to true Biblical doctrine (mine included), and now I have a resource that could help to that end. Thanks again!

"Words fail to truly capture the impact your ministry has had on our lives. We have seen a clearer, more profound view of our Glory-driven King through Dr. Piper's daily broadcasts. I often listen to a sermon each day online as I do the data entry aspect of my job. These nuggets of truth equip me to overflow with His love and grace to my co-workers."

“Please know that my wife and I praise the Lord often for the wonderful ministry of the Gospel that He is working through Desiring God. Our lives have been so helped and blessed and changed as our souls are being empowered more and more to feast upon Christ alone for our hope and joy. It is our prayer that God will equip you to continue and expand your authentic and powerful ministry of the Word. Along with that prayer, He has enabled us to include this small gift toward your many financial needs.”

One of the greatest blessings about your ministry is your absolute desire to see someone like myself come to treasure Christ above everything else (It is working!!!). And in this desire, it is totally clear that you are willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen. I have received 4 free books from your ministry… Christ is more of a priority to you than money. Your “whatever you can afford” policy is wonderful. It is an incredible blessing to know that your ministry exists for Christ, no matter what the cost. All I can say is that I wish your radio program was aired more often. It is a tremendous blessing. May God continue to be glorified in and through your ministry.

I've been taking the guys in my small group through Future Grace, for the past year (1 section a month), and been reading, listening, consuming Dr. Piper's work on the side. It's totally changing the way I think and feel toward God and others, and for the first time in my 14+ yr. Christian walk, I am able to fight off a bondage to sin, with faith and joy, instead of miserable suffering and pleading to God which didn't grant much victory. To see how I have relied on the flesh and live with a legalistic mindset, which I knew was wrong, but didn't realize I was doing it, and now have hope and to feel excitement in drawing near to God and trusting His promises instead of a vague/generalized truth is mind-blowing. I'm loving it. Thank you and everybody involved. God's glory truly is beautiful.

Today I received a thank-you letter from you for my contribution to the radio project. In it was a testimony from someone whose experience with DG's ministry so closely parallels mine that I felt compelled to tell you about it. In the few years I became aware that, although I was well taught in the doctrines of grace, I had little passion or joy in the Gospel, and I was mourning the lack. I began to long and pray for more of God. About two years ago I was given a copy of Desiring God. The title drew my heart like a magnet, but, along with the joy of what I was reading came the worry that perhaps this teaching was too good to be true. I began to pray that God would show me if what I was reading was truly Biblical. Like the man in your letter, I wondered if this was the same Gospel. However, the more I read the greater was my conviction that outside of the Bible itself, the book was the most God-glorifying piece of writing I'd ever come across. Through it the Holy Spirit has developed in me a hot-heartedness and longing to be totally satisfied with all God is and all His promises in Lord Jesus. The joy of this is heart stopping, breathtaking--beyond my words to express. I absolutely see the immense importance of "seeing truly and feeling duly". Now I'm praying all the time. My mind is continually coming back to God. I am experiencing much more boldness and desire to share the Gospel. I pray every day to be totally satisfied in God and to display that satisfaction by His grace in every way I can. God has taken a very timid quiet person and opened my mouth to encourage "heart hunger" for Him in everyone who will listen. We now have a prayer group in our church that prays for God to awaken our church to desire all He is for us above anything else. I'm giving away copies of The Dangerous Duty of Delight and Desiring God whenever I can. I want to spread this teaching like a holy infection to as many people as I can. I am so grateful to God for leading me to you. This is profoundly of His sovereign grace! I pray that He will continue to prosper His word and work through you.

I would like to express my appreciation to you for making the book The Dangerous Duty of Delight available. It quickly became one of the books that I have both treasured and recommended to others. As a mother of young children, one of the central concerns of my life is evangelizing my children. I have always been conscious that as they observe my Christian life, they see two things: 1. That the way I live my life proves the faith that I express with my words is true. I don’t want there to be a disconnect between my faith and my actions. 2. The Christian life is a life of joy, not grim-faced duty. Unfortunately, last year I ran into some circumstances which severely tested my resolve on the second point. I had been assigned to serve the church in a situation that was overwhelming and frustrating. I was struggling with resentment and anger. It was at this low point, that I read the book The Dangerous Duty of Delight. While I was reading the book, my heart was shouting, “Oh yes! This is what is missing. None of this is any good without the joy.” I was not only convicted of where I had been failing–I was also given new hope for a future of joy-filled service. Thank you again for publishing this book. It was so helpful to me.

I've been reading your book Don't Waste Your Life and God has truly spoken to me through it. I'm 19 and just became a youth minister at a church in South Texas. I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to tell every young person I see - I'm going to beg them not to waste their life on the superficialities of this world - not to be too easily pleased. I feel it would be a great tragedy for me to do otherwise.

By the grace of God, the Lord in His wonderful, loving providence has used the book Don't Waste Your Life to instill within me a fresh passion to do all things for the glory of God. Your book not only confirmed all the things that the Lord was speaking to me through his Spirit by his Word, but has made me rethink my whole life's ambitions. I thank God for your ministry and for this book. They have been used by our Lord to help edify me to a closer relationship with the Father and his Son.

Don't Waste Your Life is changing my life in a radical way. I feel the Lord is calling me to reach college students in this generation, and the next, to become passionately in love with who God really is.

Just wanted to say God bless you and Thank you. My wife and I are currently reading Don't Waste Your Life, which has inspired a weekly chat with our church. Just wanted to say thanks.

I can say without exaggeration that Piper's writing in the first chapter of Let the Nations be Glad has more profoundly impacted my life, ministry direction and theology than any other single chapter of any book (outside those of Scripture) that I have ever read. I am thankful to God that the theological and practical gap that once existed between the worlds of worship and missions is closing. I am eternally grateful that we live in a day when we are seeing God move powerfully to hasten the fulfillment of His promise in Isaiah 61:11: "...As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

John Piper's writings have allowed me to understand and freely enjoy the great love that the Father has lavished upon us. He has given me words to encourage others to lavish their love upon the Father in the same unhindered manner.

I am a seminary student... it is a real encouragement to see the impact that DG, and more specifically, the ministry of John Piper has had on this campus. All of the professors that I talk to say that John Piper has been one of THE most influential writers and preachers in their lives, as he has been for me. What is so amazing about the impact that his ministry has is not just the depth of it, but the breadth of his influence. Ethics professors, missions professors, preaching professors, and of course theology professors are all affected by his teaching. I am personally thankful for his ministry, but above all I am thankful for the God who Pastor John constantly and relentlessly points me to. John Piper has been a pastor to me for the past few years and has influenced my life more than anyone else. I thank God for DG and can't wait to come to the pastor's conference in February!