John Bunyan, William Cowper und David Brainerd mussten während ihres Dienstes für das Reich Gottes durch viel Leid hindurchgehen. Bunyan landete im Gefängnis und war oft in Gefahr, weil er das Evangelium predigte. Cowper litt lebenslang unter Depressionen und gar Selbstmordabsichten. Brainerd litt an Tuberkulose und der »tiefen Finsternis« der amerikanischen Wälder. In diesen drei Biografien erklärt John Piper, wie die Standhaftigkeit der drei inmitten ihrer Prüfungen ihr Lied des Glaubens süßer und intensiver machte. Durch diese Geschichten ihres Leidens, ihres Ertragens und der Frucht, die aus ihrem Leiden hervorging, wird ein radikales Christsein, in dem Gott im Mittelpunkt der Anbetung steht und Christus in der Mission erhöht wird, entfacht. Der Leser wird beim Nachdenken über diese Geschichten einmal mehr erkennen, dass keine Arbeit und keine Leiden, die uns auf dem Weg des Gehorsams gegenüber Christus begegnen, jemals vergeblich sein werden.
John Piper (1946 - Present)
is a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His books include ECPA Christian Book Award winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of Jesus Christ. The evangelical organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986).In 1980, after what he described as an "irresistible call of the Lord to preach", Piper became Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has been ministering ever since. Piper hit the evangelical scene after the publication of his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986) and has continued to publish dozens of other books further articulating this theological perspective. In 1994, he founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides all of Piper's sermons and articles from the past three decades, and most of his books online free of charge, as well as offering for sale books, CDs, and DVDs and regularly hosting conferences.
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed and Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books.
Piper's motto in ministry, preaching, and teaching is: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls those who live out this motto Christian Hedonists. Piper places a heavy emphasis on the objective and absolute nature of truth and is confident in the Christian's ability to grasp that truth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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