Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It

by John Piper, David Platt (Foreword by)

Overview

A choice lies before you: Either waste your life or live with risk. Either sit on the sidelines or get in the game. After all, life was no cakewalk for Jesus, and he didn’t promise it would be any easier for his followers. We shouldn’t be surprised by resistance and persecution. Yet most of us play it safe. 

We pursue comfort. We spend ourselves to get more stuff. And we prefer to be entertained. We are all tempted by the idea of security, the possibility of a cozy Christianity with no hell at the end. But what kind of life is that really? It’s a far cry from adventurous and abundant, from truly rich and really full, and it’s certainly not the heights and the depths Jesus calls us to. 

Discover in these pages a foundation for fearlessness. Hear God’s promise to go with you into the unknown. And let Risk Is Right help you see the joys of a faith-filled and seriously rewarding life of Jesus-dependent abandon!

Risk Is Right is a significantly expanded version of a chapter previously published in the book Don't Waste Your Life (chapter 5).

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433535376
Publisher:	Crossway
Publication date:	01/31/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	324 KB

About the Author

John Piper (DTheol, University of Munich) is the founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and the chancellor of Bethlehem College&Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as the senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; This Momentary Marriage; A Peculiar Glory; and Reading the Bible Supernaturally.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Platt 7

1 The Ultimate Meaning of Life 13

2 What Is Risk? 17

3 Stories of Risk in the Old Testament 23

4 The Great Risk Taker in the New Testament 27

5 When the People of God Risk and When They Don't 33

6 Right and Wrong Reasons to Risk 37

7 The Great Eight and the Foundation of Risk 41

8 On the Far Side of Every Faith-Filled Risk: Triumphant Love 47

Desiring God: Note on Resources 53

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From the Publisher

“This book is absolute dynamite. While probably Piper’s smallest work, I would argue it's content is the most critical. I plead with all my heart that you buy it, read it and with God's help, live it out.”
—Jonathan Carswell, founder of The 10 Group of Companies (incorporating www.10ofthose.com)