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    The Dangerous Duty of Delight: Daring to Make God Your Greatest Desire

    By John Piper

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    Each of us is hard-wired to pursue our happiness. We long for significant, profound joy. Some try to satisfy it with exotic vacations, high-tech gadgets, career success, sports, academics, drug experimentation, even ascetic rigors.

    Yet the longing remains. Why?

    In The Dangerous Duty of Delight, John Piper turns our heart toward the one true object of human desire and happiness: God. Piper shows from Scripture that pursuing our happiness in Christ is not optional for the Christian, but essential.
     
    Come along on a journey from desperate desire to infinite delight. Learn how you were created for ultimate satisfaction in Him, and how this new perspective will change your attitudes toward worship, relationships, material goods—and everything.

    “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee.”
    --Saint Augustine
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 18, 2011
    ISBN9781601422927
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    The Dangerous Duty of Delight: Daring to Make God Your Greatest Desire
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    John Piper

     John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; and Providence. 

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