The Blazing Center Study Guide: The Soul-Satisfying Supremacy of God in All Things
Language: English
Published by Multnomah, 2006
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- Title
- The Blazing Center Study Guide: The Soul-Satisfying Supremacy of God in All Things
- Author
- Desiring God [Creator]
- Publisher
- Multnomah
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1590526856
- ISBN 13
- 9781590526859
- Item weight
- 5 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x0x8
All the planets of your life—from your labor and leisure to your thinking and feeling—are held in orbit by the greatness, gravity, and blazing brightness of Jesus Christ at the center of your life. When He ceases to be the center, the planets of your life fly into confusion, sending a hundred things out of control. Pastor John Piper’s powerful teaching is recorded during an intimate retreat for youth leaders and students onto three The Blazing Center DVDs. With the study guide, this is an ideal package for adult and youth Sunday school classes, small groups, retreats, classrooms, and families. Discover surprising insights about the reality of sin, how your love for God is really revealed, and how only joy in Him will sustain you through times of suffering.
God Is the Blazing Sun at the Center of Reality
Everything revolves around Him. And as the most valuable and glorious person who exists, God is loving, not conceited, when He calls us to worship Him. His pursuit of glory and our pursuit of joy are not at odds—because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
This study guide is designed to be used in a ten-session, guided group study that focuses on The Blazing Center DVD set:
Lesson 1—Introduction to The Blazing Center
Lesson 2—The Blazing Center: A Personal Story
Lesson 3—The Blazing Center: Is God Vain?
Lesson 4—Pursue Your Joy: Isn’t That Hedonism?
Lesson 5— Pursue Your Joy: God Commands It!
Lesson 6—True Love: Duty or Delight? (Part 1)
Lesson 7—True Love: Duty or Delight? (Part 2)
Lesson 8—Suffering: For the Joy Set Before You (Part 1)
Lesson 9— Suffering: For the Joy Set Before You (Part 2)
Lesson 10—Review and Conclusion
Complete with Scripture and key quotations for reflection, penetrating questions, and five daily assignments per week, this study guide will help you place God at the center of your life. When God is the blazing sun at the center of your solar system, all the planets of your life come into proper orbit.
Leader’s guide included!
Story Behind the Book
“The greatest news in all the world is that there is no final conflict between my passion for joy and God’s passion for His glory. The knot that ties these together is the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. Jesus Christ died and rose again to forgive the treason of our souls, which have turned from savoring God to savoring self. In the cross of Christ, God rescues us from the house of mirrors and leads us out to the mountains and canyons of His majesty. Nothing satisfies us—or magnifies Him—more.”
—John Piper
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About the Author
Some of his books include:
Personal holiness:
Don't Waste Your Life, The Pleasures of God, When the Darkness will not Lift, Future Grace, Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, When I Don't Desire God, A Hunger for God and Battling Unbelief.
Ministry and missions:
The Supremacy of God in Preaching, Let the Nations be Glad, Brothers we are not Professionals and God is the Gospel.
Academic:
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Beyond The Bounds, Counted Righteous in Christ, The Justification of God, Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, What Jesus Demands from the World, The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World, and The Future of Justification.
Devotionals:
A Hunger for God, Seeing and Savouring Jesus Christ, A Godward Life (2 vols), Pierced by the Word, Life as a Vapor, Taste and See, and Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die;
Historical biography:
Swans are Not Silent series #01: The Legacy of Sovereign Joy (Augustine, Luther and Calvin), #02: Tested by Fire (Bunyan, Cowper and Brainerd), #03: The Roots of Endurance (Newton, Simeon and Wilberforce), #04: Contending for our All (Athanasius; John Owen; and J. Gresham Machen), and Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce, and Robert Speer.
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