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Book Review–Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper

This book has taken a little longer to read because it was given to me in a PDF and therefore has been my first e-read. I have to admit I don’t know how I feel about Kindle’s or other forms of electronic books; I enjoy physically turning pages, highlighting and underlining and pulling the book back off the shelf. Anyhow, enough on that! John Piper is first a Christian hedonist, secondarily the preaching pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in MN, a reformed church. He has written numerous books including, Desiring God and This Momentary Marriage , which are available for free download on his website: http://www.desiringgod.org/ . His passion is all things of God, but especially missions and unreached people groups. The premise of this book is that according to 1 Corinthians 6:19+20 , we exist to glorify God. Piper begins with a biographical sketch of his formative years at Wheaton college, during which he describes what he felt was a call to be a minister. He recalls learning the

Christmas gift alternative

Please check this page out as you may be considering an alternative to Christmas gift giving this year. It is such a privilege for us to have a (or several) copies of God's word in our homes and what a blessing to be able to get a copy of God's word into a believer's hand somewhere across the globe. WycliffeCatalog