September 2010
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We've moved
For those of you following Don’t Waste Your Life on Tumblr, we’ve moved to a new Tumblr page. We did this so that we could bring you posts from multiple authors. What this means is you will have to go to dontwasteyourlife.com and click the “follow this tumblr” button.
The new Don’t Waste Your Life blog will launch on the 17th!
August 2010
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A Full, Wasted Life
Looking back on our childhood, we can all laugh at a time when we thought that life was over because we had missed out on a new toy or a visit to Chuck E. Cheese. If we only knew then what we know now, eh? What many people don’t realize is that this is a fairly accurate picture of heaven. Where, in the presence of our Lord and Savior, we will look back on our lives and laugh at what we...
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“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree along...”
– - Warren Buffet
We tend to think of the immediate payoff when deciding what to do next. What will have an immediate effect? What will bring me immediate pleasure, immediate reward, immediate satisfaction, immediate recognition, immediate results?
Nothing big would ever be accomplished if we all...
July 2010
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Don't Waste Your Trials
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. - 1st Peter 1:6-7
Take all your pain and hurt and anger and sorrow and...
“Don’t waste your life trying to look good. Spend your life making God look good....”
– John Piper, “Discern What Pleases God: Himself”, New Attitude Conference 2007
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“Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation. Evangelical...”
– Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise on Religious Affections
(posted by: matt heerema)
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How to be a difference maker in a local church.
Found on the Sovereign Grace Ministries blog:
At the Next 2010 Conference, Kevin DeYoung gave a list of suggestions for “How to be a difference maker in a local church.” A few of them were:
Find a good local church.
Get involved.
Become a member.
Stay there as long as you can.
Put away thoughts of a revolution for a while.
Be patient with your leaders.
Rejoice when the...
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“As long as we imagine we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know...”
– A.W. Tozer
(posted by: matt heerema)
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Who Is Behind Don’t Waste Your Life?
Desiring God
This website and all the Don’t Waste Your Life resources are developed and sponsored by Desiring God, the ministry of John Piper. Desiring God offers all 27 years of John Piper’s sermon audio and manuscripts at no charge as well as many other products and free resources to help people find their joy in God.
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John Piper is the author...
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What Is Don’t Waste Your Life?
A Message
We want people to know that they will find their greatest happiness and deepest fulfillment when they spend their lives magnifying Christ.
We want to show them that God loves them, but that this love may be different than they’ve ever thought.
And we want people to see that the unwasted life is the life that seeks its own joy by putting the infinite...
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Don’t Waste Your Life
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Meant for personal or group studies, this book will guide you through the teachings found in the book, Don’t Waste Your Life. It includes: •Ten lessons (one per chapter) •Lesson objectives •Guiding questions •Space for note-taking •Read (PDF) a sample. •See more information about this...
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Through this high-impact resource the members of your church, ministry, or small group will be challenged to wake up from the American dream to the soul-saving reality that “to live is Christ and to die is gain.”Each component of this triple-DVD set features John Piper speaking directly to viewers. See more information...
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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of Him in every part of our lives. – John...
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