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Topic: The Glory of God
Format: Audio Book on MP3 CD
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ISBN: 978-1596441118
Publisher: Hovel Audio
Product Code: ABPG
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The Pleasures of God Audio BookMeditations on God's Delight in Being God
Narrated by Grover Gardner One way to see the glory of God is to meditate upon the object of his delight. In this reissued version with a new cover design, John Piper unfolds for us a vision of God through the lens of his happiness. What most delights the happiest Being in the universe? God's gladness in being God. If God's excellencies can be admired in his pleasures, and if we tend to become like what we admire and enjoy, then focusing on these pleasures can help us to be gradually conformed to his likeness. In other words, we will be most satisfied in God when we know why God is most satisfied in God. Download chapters 1-3 of the book (PDF).
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Table of Contents
What's New in the Revised and Expanded Edition?Acknowledgments
Preface: At the Beginning of the Millenium
Introduction: How the Book Was Born
1. The Pleasure of God in His Son
2. The Pleasure of God in All He Does
3. The Pleasure of God in His Creation
4. The Pleasure of God in His Fame
5. The Pleasure of God in Election
6. The Pleasure of God in Bruising the Son
7. The Pleasure of God in Doing Good to All Who Hope in Him
8. The Pleasure of God in the Prayers of the Upright
9. The Pleasure of God in Personal Obedience and Public Justice
10: The Pleasure of God in Concealing Himself from the Wise and Revealing Himself to Infants
Epilogue: Almost Too Good to Be True--A Final Word of Hope
Appendix: Are There Two Wills in God? Divine Election and God's Desire for All to Be Saved
Study Guide
Indexes
Endorsements
I have found The Pleasures of God to be a challenging and thought-provoking text that I regularly require for seminary students in an advanced theology class on the doctrine of God. It contains profound doctrinal reflection coupled with lively writing and penetrating application to the human heart. I recommend it highly!
Wayne Grudem
Research Professor of Theology and Bible, Phoenix Seminary
The Pleasures of God was a thought-gripping challenge to godliness when it was first published. Now reworked slightly, expanded carefully, and sharpened in its use of the Scriptures, it is an even stronger book. Its message—that the joy of life begins when we begin with God—is perennial, the intense piety of its high Calvinism a tonic.
Mark A. Noll
McManis Chair of Christian Thought, Wheaton College
Theologians today are more favorable than formerly to the idea that God has feelings. But what does it actually feel like to be God? Many writers today stray far from Scripture when they take up such questions, but John Piper stays close to the text, thus presenting a cogent and profound analysis. I'm pleased to recommend it for college and seminary classes on the doctrine of God, and for everybody's meditation.
John M. Frame
Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando
The Pleasures of God brings refreshment to the soul of Christians. Though we usually understand pleasure in terms of our personal lives, John Piper shows us the source, goal, and end of all pleasures. He shines the spotlight on God's pleasure in His own "being" and God's pleasure in the Christian's response to Him. This is the source of all pleasure.
R. C. Sproul
President, Ligonier Ministries
Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology & Apologetics, Knox Theological Seminary
The Pleasures of God is one of the best books on the doctrine of God I have read. It is not dry theology as the word "doctrine" often infers, but a heart-warming, mind-challenging, God-glorifying study of what gives God pleasure. Any seminary or college that wants to produce God-centered graduates should include this book somewhere in its curriculum.
Jerry Bridges
The Navigators. Author and Lecturer
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