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Desiring God God-Centered Resources from the Ministry of John Piper

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“Everywhere you look in the world, it seems, there are reminders that life is war. We are not playing games. Heaven and hell, Jesus says, are in the balance" (p. 25-26).


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About the Book

The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19).

But, of course, sin always tries to trash God's gifts. So we can't just celebrate sex for what God made it to be; we have to fight what sin turned it into. The contributors to this unique volume encourage you to do both: celebrate and struggle.

This book has something for all-men and women, married and single-from contributors like John Piper, C. J. and Carolyn Mahaney, Mark Dever, Al Mohler, Carolyn McCulley, and others.

First Edition 2005
Crossway Books (Wheaton, Illinois)


Table of Contents

Introduction by Justin Taylor

Part 1: God and Sex
1. Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part One by John Piper
2. Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part Two by John Piper
3. The Goodness of Sex and the Glory of God by Ben Patterson

Part 2: Sin and Sex
4. Making All Things New: Restoring Pure Joy to the Sexually Broken by David Powlison
5. Homosexual Marriage as a Challenge to the Church: Biblical and Cultural Reflections by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Part 3: Men and Sex
6. Sex and the Single Man by Mark Dever, Michael Lawrence, Matt Schmucker, and Scott Croft
7. Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know by C. J. Mahaney

Part 4: Women and Sex
8. Sex and the Single Woman by Carolyn McCulley
9. Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian
Wife Needs to Know by Carolyn Mahaney

Part 5: History and Sex
10. Martin Luther’s Reform of Marriage by Justin Taylor
11 Christian Hedonists or Religious Prudes? The Puritans on Sex by Mark Dever Recommended Resources for Further Reading


Translations

Indonesian
Publisher: Penerbit Momentum (Momentum Christian Literature)
ISBN: 979-3292-47-4

Portuguese
Publisher: Casa Editora Presbiteriana
ISBN: 9788576222415

Romanian
Publisher: Editura Scriptum
Purchase: Societatea Biblica Din Romania
ISBN: 978-973-1813-04-2

Russian
Publisher: Grace Publishing International
Purchase: Kniga
ISBN: 978-1-933508-09-2

Spanish
Publisher: Editorial CLC


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About John Piper

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of more than 50 books including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist. John and his wife, Noël, have five children and twelve grandchildren.


Endorsements

"Another Christian book on sex? This is so much more. . . . We don't need another book on sex that's all about us. We need to have our gaze lifted. We need to consider the God who made us sexual creatures for his glory. This book will help you form a Christ-centered, Bible-shaped understanding of sex. This is something we all need."

Joshua Harris, Senior Pastor, Covenant Life Church, Gaithersburg, Maryland

"This is the rare book that delivers more than it promises. Pick it up to learn about the true joy of sex: you will, and you'll also learn about the joy of God."

Marvin Olasky, Editor-in-chief, World

"This book is a glorious start to forming a Christian mind that expresses delight in God's gift of marital intimacy-a Christian mind that so desires to delight in that which God delights in that it revels in rejecting the cheap substitutes pawned off on this passing age as true pleasure. Instead, it only finds satisfaction in what is purest and highest and noblest and best."

 —J. Ligon Duncan, Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi; President, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

"The contributors to this volume have provided a refreshing, insightful, and much-needed treatment of this sacred subject, calling us to bring our thoughts and lives into captivity to the supremacy of Christ, and to reflect our ravishment with our heavenly Bridegroom in our sexuality. I pray that this resource will make a profound difference in how God's people think and live."

Nancy Leigh DeMoss, author, Biblical Womanhood in the Home; radio host, Revive Our Hearts

"Sex is a wonderful gift from God, but it makes a terrible idol, brutal and unyielding in the misery it inflicts. These authors are a breath of fresh air, because unlike our culture's self-proclaimed 'sexperts,' they respect biblical authority and warmly embrace the Lordship of Christ. Hence, they can lift up the torch of divine truth and expose the enemy's lies about sex that have penetrated not only the darkest corners of our culture, but of our churches."

Randy Alcorn, Founder, Eternal Perspective Ministries; author, If God is Good and Heaven

"In a culture that's desperately asking sex to be the alpha and omega, this book shows how sex is better when Christ is the Alpha and Omega."

Andree Seu, Senior Writer, World magazine



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