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About the Book

It's easy to slip through life without taking any risks-without making your life count. But life ought not be wasted. You don't need to know a lot of things to make a lasting difference in the world, but you do have to know the few, great, unchanging, and glorious things that matter and be willing to live and to die for them.

John Piper's plea to a generation is, "Don't waste your life!" This book is a passionate call to make your life count for eternity. He acknowledges that there are risks for those who seek to make a lasting difference by faith, yet he believes that they are risks worth taking for the cause of the Gospel.

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First Edition 2003; Updated Edition 2009
Crossway Books (Wheaton, Illinois)

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Table of Contents

Preface – For Christians and Non-Christians
1. My Search for a Single Passion to Live By
2. Breakthrough—the Beauty of Christ, My Joy
3. Boasting Only in the Cross, The Blazing Center of the Glory of God
4. Magnifying Christ Through Pain and Death
5. Risk Is Right—Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It
6. The Goal of Life—Gladly Making Others Glad in God
7. Living to Prove He Is More Precious Than Life
8. Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5
9. The Majesty of Christ in Missions and Mercy— A Plea to This Generation
10. My Prayer—Let None Say in the End, “I’ve Wasted It”

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Translations

English-Philippines
Publisher: Lighthouse Inspirational
ISBN: 971-834-174-9

Afrikaans
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ISBN: 978-1-77000-811-3

Arabic
Publisher: Streams Ministry

Bulgarian
Publisher: New Man Publishers

Chinese-Traditional
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Purchase: Campus Books
ISBN: 1-932184-24-4

Czech
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Purchase: KMS
ISBN: 978-80-904378-0-7

Danish
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ISBN: 87-7242-292-0

Dutch
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ISBN: 978-90-6067-834-3

Farsi
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French
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ISBN: 978-2-8260-3485-8

German
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ISBN: 3-89397-963-8

Greek
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ISBN: 9789068796157

Indonesian
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ISBN: 979542238-3

Italian
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Japanese
Publisher: Word of Life Press
ISBN: 978-4-264-03037-9

Korean
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ISBN: 978-89-04-15888-1

Norwegian
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ISBN: 9788252002027

Polish
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Portuguese
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ISBN: 857622108X

Romanian
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ISBN: 978-606-8000-09-1 182

Russian
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Spanish
Publisher: Portavoz
Purchase: Amazon
ISBN: 978-0-8254-1770-2

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Related Resources

• Boasting Only in the Cross (conference message)
• Don't Waste Your Life (conference messages)
• The Radical Cost of Following Jesus (sermon)
• Risk and the Cause of God (sermon series)