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Customer Reviews for Crossway Books & Bibles Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It
Crossway Books & Bibles Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It
Piper has a passionate message for our generation: Dare to live for the great and glorious things that matter! Calling you to put your faith into action, this stand-alone chapter from Piper's best-selling Don't Waste Your Life shows that living for Christ involves risk---and leads to joy, the glory of God, and the good of others.
Please note that the content of Risk is Right is an expanded version of Chapter 5 from Don't Waste Your Life.
Please note that the content of Risk is Right is an expanded version of Chapter 5 from Don't Waste Your Life.
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Review 1 for Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It
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A thought transcended into a book
Date:May 13, 2013
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The book was much a-due about nothing. It has been said by leadership many times better. There was no transition into the book from principle to practical. I did not enjoy the book and would not recommend it. Don't risk it!
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magnifying Christ with your life means risk
Date:January 17, 2013
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What do you live for? Piper writes that the meaning of life should be, based on Phil.1:21, “Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ.” (15)
Piper says if our all-embracing passion is to make much of Christ in life and death and if the life that magnifies Him most is the life of costly love, then that is a life of risk. And there will be the possibility of loss or injury.
We can't avoid risk. Piper argues that it is woven into the very fabric of our lives. And the seriousness of risk? Piper writes, “Risk avoidance may be more sinful – more unloving – than taking the risk in faith and love, and making a wrong decision.” (23)
Piper explores the risk takers in the Old Testament as well as Paul, the great risk taker of the New Testament.
He addresses the right and wrong reasons to risk. He looks at what God promises when we risk. “The bottom-line comfort and assurance in all our risk taking for Christ is that nothing will ever separate us from the love of Christ.” (49)
Piper says if our all-embracing passion is to make much of Christ in life and death and if the life that magnifies Him most is the life of costly love, then that is a life of risk. And there will be the possibility of loss or injury.
We can't avoid risk. Piper argues that it is woven into the very fabric of our lives. And the seriousness of risk? Piper writes, “Risk avoidance may be more sinful – more unloving – than taking the risk in faith and love, and making a wrong decision.” (23)
Piper explores the risk takers in the Old Testament as well as Paul, the great risk taker of the New Testament.
He addresses the right and wrong reasons to risk. He looks at what God promises when we risk. “The bottom-line comfort and assurance in all our risk taking for Christ is that nothing will ever separate us from the love of Christ.” (49)
Are you taking risks to magnify Christ? If not, read Piper's book. It is short but it really packs a punch.
I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher for the purpose of this review.
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