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Don't Waste Your Life is a best-selling book by pastor and theologian John Piper of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. [1] [2] It was published in 2003 by Crossway Books, which re-published Group Study Editions in 2007 and 2009.
The Collected Works of John Piper (13 volume set plus Index) – Hardcover: 8464 pages * Publisher: Crossway (March 31, 2017). Reading the Bible Supernaturally: Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture – Crossway, (April, 2017). The Satisfied Soul: Showing the Supremacy of God in All of Life – Multnomah, (September 5, 2017).
The term was coined by John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God based on Vernard Eller's earlier use of the term hedonism to describe the same concept. [1] Piper summarizes this philosophy of the Christian life as "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, seed-faith gospel, Faith movement, or Word-Faith movement) [1] is a religious belief among some Charismatic Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive scriptural confession, and giving to ...
The title "Bread of Life" (Ancient Greek: ἄρτος τῆς ζωῆς, artos tēs zōēs) given to Jesus is based on this biblical passage which is set in the gospel shortly after the feeding the multitude episode (in which Jesus feeds a crowd of 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish), after which he walks on the water to the ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. The World English Bible translates the passage as: The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." The 1881 Westcott-Hort ...
Symmachus translates it ἐξαίρετος, that is, ‘chief,’ or ‘excellent,’ though in one place he has interpreted ‘peculiar.’ When then we pray God to give us our ‘peculiar’ or ‘chief’ bread, we mean Him who says in the Gospel, I am the living bread which came down from heaven. (John 6:51.) [32]
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670.. Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources. Religion and music historian Herbert Lockyer, Jr. writes that "music, both vocal and instrumental, was well cultivated among the Hebrews, the New Testament Christians, and the Christian church through the centuries."