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.

Thanks for the awesome way in which God uses you to bring glory to himself. Since I read "Desiring God" and other books available on this site (as well as Jonathan Edwards stuff), I've been having a great deal more joy in my walk with the Lord. As someone raised in a Church that often treated faith as a cold duty, finding my strength in the joy of the Lord was kind of foreign. Thanks for pointing me to that joy.

Thank you [John Piper] for the truths you wrote in Desiring God. This December, my husband and I were at an all-time spiritual low after seeing our daughter through open-heart surgery. After three years of intensive praying and focusing on her, we came through surgery beautifully only to find ourselves spiritually burned out instead of refreshed! At a crucial moment, I saw your book title on a shelf and the Spirit said, "Buy it." It has turned my life around. God has used it to bring my husband and I such great joy, and has used it to free us from so many worldly "dependencies," that we daily marvel at the miracle of our life. And you were so right about sharing it in order to double our joy--we can't stop talking about it, and we rejoice to see that others in our daily life are buying the book and getting excited, too. Thank you.

Desiring God has put clear words to the thoughts in my mind that Christianity is more than a set of rules. Thank you for sharing your love of the Savior with me--I've bought and given away 10+ copies of that book, and I'm sure I'll be getting more soon!

I just wanted to express how much I appreciate Desiring God. I'm currently attending Seminary in Jacksonville, Texas. I have enjoyed and learned many insights into Gods Word from John Piper. He preaches and speaks with such passion for the Word of God, I often find myself desiring a deeper relationship with God. The books that you publish are of the greatest quality and I learn so much from them. They've all been so helpful with my personal studies. My first book I ever picked up after surrendering to the ministry was The Supremacy of God in Preaching. I have tried to pattern my preaching after that book, for it speaks the truth of how I should focus on his majesty and proclaim his truths. Thank you for your intense laboring efforts.

…for some reason Desiring God caught my attention. That night I started reading and finished it in a few days. The message was so liberating! It was as though scales fell from my eyes, and I could see wonders I never dreamed of. I read and re-read the book…I have been challenged, enlightened, probed, and delighted with your books. I can't express how much of an influence your writing has made upon my life, my ministry, and every aspect and dimension of my daily routine…Thank you for being an agent of transformation in my perspective of God's greatness and glory and supremacy in all things.

I just wanted to write…to let you know what an important book Desiring God has been for me and my family. It has changed forever my knowledge of God and my outlook on life. We as a family were…asking whether we were to be involved with the work of reaching the unreached peoples with the gospel when we discovered this book and all of the scripture that it totally opened up to us. Dr. Piper's desire to 'push some over the edge' happened to us and we were able to see clearly and resolutely God's desire for us to give ourselves to the task. The thing that makes this book so solid is that Dr. Piper does not use the Bible to add to his thoughts, but it is just one scripture after another brought together in a way that totally makes them come to life and relevance to real life…I must say that my love and respect for the Bible has been renewed. It is there that I will find the knowledge of God…Thank you!

I just finished reading Dr. Piper’s book, "Desiring God." I was very encouraged, but also convicted by his words. Several months ago my life verse became Psalm 37:4. I’m 16 years old and I was truly searching on what "desiring God" really meant. Dr. Piper’s book really helped to open my eyes, as also did my further study in God’s Word. Thank you for obeying the Lord and sharing through your ministry.

Thanks so much for your goodness in offering these books on your affordable price policy. I am a missionary in the Middle East and Dr. Piper’s "Desiring God" has radically changed by heart’s orientation. I have ordered another one because I am constantly encouraging people with the principles of "Christian Hedonism" but I am reluctant to give my copy out too widely. I use it constantly. I will use a new copy for lending and include DG contact details for people to order their own.

The Lord began dealing with my heart concerning missions, particularly frontier missions, beginning in the summer of 1997… To make a long story short, Desiring God pushed me to the brink of surrendering to full-time missions, Let the Nations Be Glad pushed me over the brink and now, by God's grace, the principles contained in Future Grace will keep me there. My family and I are willing to learn to "walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7) and "be content, whatever the circumstances" (Philippians 4:11) in a way that we've never had to before. We have applied for missionary training…and will hopefully begin training in August.

Thank you for the book Desiring God. The theme of it has encouraged me greatly. As a Christian in his early 40's having begun my pilgrimage in my mid-teens, I seem to be going back to the very basic things at the moment. The contents of this book have thrilled me.