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.

John Piper

John Piper is the author of the book, Don’t Waste Your Life. He is preaching pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN.

Do We Practice What We Preach?

We promote a message that says to deny yourself for the sake of Christ and his cause, so it is reasonable to wonder whether we follow our own direction.

We try to. One of our fundamental values is what we call wartime living. In the same way that a country during war focuses its resources on winning, we also try to focus our resources on the goal of achieving our mission. This means living a strategically simple lifestyle, so that more resources can be directed to war effort. As individuals, we must each discern how the Lord wishes for us to live out a wartime lifestyle. As an organization, we will constantly try to be wise and Christ-honoring with the resources he provides for us.

One practical way we try to show that we are about the gospel, not money, is by giving away all our online resources and offering a whatever-you-can-afford policy on the products we sell.