God is the Gospel

Meditations On God'S Love As The Gift Of Himself

John Piper

• Publisher: IVP
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781844741090
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789740752
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Theology

Most people, when they ponder what it means to be loved by God, do not think God-centred thoughts. They think of the things that God does for us but which, in their minds, don't have God as the satisfying centre.
But it wouldn't be loving of God to give us everything but himself - and so his love doesn't do that. It gives us himself for our enjoyment, and it gives us other things as means of knowing him better and loving him more.
In John Piper's reflective, paradigm-challenging book, he drives home the point that what is most loving about God is not his making much of us, but his enabling us, at great cost to himself, to enjoy making much of him forever.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Word of Thanks
• Introduction: What the World Needs Most—The Gospel’s Greatest Gift, God
• Chapter 1 The Gospel—Proclamation and Explanation
• Chapter 2 The Gospel—The Biblical Scope of Its Meaning
• Chapter 3 The Gospel—“Behold Your God!”
• Chapter 4 The Gospel—The Glory of Christ, the Image of God
• Chapter 5 The Gospel—Confirmed by Its Glory, the Internal Testimony of the Holy Spirit
• Chapter 6 The Gospel—The Glory of Christ in Evangelism, Missions, and Sanctification
• Chapter 7 The Gospel—The Glory of the Gladness of God
• Chapter 8 The Gospel—The Glory of Christ as the Ground of Christ-Exalting Contrition
• Chapter 9 The Gospel—The Gift of God Himself over and in All His Saving and Painful Gifts
• Chapter 10 The Gospel—The Gift of God Himself over and in All His Pleasant Gifts
• Chapter 11 The Gospel—What Makes It Ultimately Good: Seeing Glory or Being Glorious?
• Conclusion: God Is the Gospel—Now Let Us Sacrifice and Sing
• Desiring God: A Note on Resources
• Scripture Index
• Person Index
• Subject Index