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Future Grace Study Guide: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
Freedom from Sin through the Promises of God
This study guide companion to the DVD version of Future Grace —the foundational book by John Piper on the expansive reach of God’s grace—will help individuals and groups understand that victory over sin comes not from a herculean effort to avoid worldly pleasures, but through fixing one’s focus on the reality that God is far more desirable than even life itself. Delighting in the bounty of God's promises frees us from sinful patterns, to the glory of Christ!
The DVD and this guide create an ideal package for adult and youth Sunday school classes, small groups, retreats, classrooms, families, as well as for individual study.
Topics for this 12-session guided study include:
· A Passion for Holiness
· Justification by Faith and the Necessity of Perseverance
· What Is Faith?
· The Crucial Function of Bygone Grace
· The Role of Gratitude in Producing Obedience
· How Faith in Future Grace Produces Radical Love
· Future Grace Versus Anxiety and Covetousness
· Future Grace Versus Lust, Bitterness, and Impatience
Complete with Scripture, key quotations for reflection, thought-provoking questions, and five daily assignments per week, this study guide helps reveal how a life of purity can be recovered through the power of God's future grace, which streams into the present through faith.
Also includes a six-session track option. Leader’s Guide Included.
This study guide companion to the DVD version of Future Grace —the foundational book by John Piper on the expansive reach of God’s grace—will help individuals and groups understand that victory over sin comes not from a herculean effort to avoid worldly pleasures, but through fixing one’s focus on the reality that God is far more desirable than even life itself. Delighting in the bounty of God's promises frees us from sinful patterns, to the glory of Christ!
The DVD and this guide create an ideal package for adult and youth Sunday school classes, small groups, retreats, classrooms, families, as well as for individual study.
Topics for this 12-session guided study include:
· A Passion for Holiness
· Justification by Faith and the Necessity of Perseverance
· What Is Faith?
· The Crucial Function of Bygone Grace
· The Role of Gratitude in Producing Obedience
· How Faith in Future Grace Produces Radical Love
· Future Grace Versus Anxiety and Covetousness
· Future Grace Versus Lust, Bitterness, and Impatience
Complete with Scripture, key quotations for reflection, thought-provoking questions, and five daily assignments per week, this study guide helps reveal how a life of purity can be recovered through the power of God's future grace, which streams into the present through faith.
Also includes a six-session track option. Leader’s Guide Included.
144 pages, Paperback
First published September 18, 2012
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About the author
John Piper
609 books4,586 followersJohn Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.), and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years, he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem.
John is the author of more than 50 books and more than 30 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and twelve grandchildren.
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He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.), and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years, he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem.
John is the author of more than 50 books and more than 30 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and twelve grandchildren.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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August 3, 2024
This is a book you read slowly & go back to. Equips you with hope and courage. Contributes to build a solid foundation for our faith in the unshakable promises of God.
April 12, 2021
I only read this book halfway; the first half of the book proved truly insightful and helpful! I love how Piper clearly explains (in intense detail, per his usual style) how faith (in future grace) works itself out in the details of our daily sanctification, always using Scripture to back it up. From what I read, this is a Piper classic for good reason.
However, I stopped simply because I grew tired of the redundancy, and though I gobbled up the book at the beginning, by the middle and was no longer found it intriguing.
Although I'm a huge JP fan, I have a problem with his confidence in certain conclusions he draws while I believe he tends to straw-man others' points of view, specifically the Arminian point of view. As someone who considers themselves an Arminian (with a high view of God's pursuit, initiation, and sovereignty in salvation), I'm not saying he shouldn't present his interpretation, it's just a turn-off when someone presents your view in a way you don't recognize. Truly not that big of a deal, but just was the straw that broke the camel's back (the camel being me ready to move onto another book and being a bit worn of the redundancy).
However, I stopped simply because I grew tired of the redundancy, and though I gobbled up the book at the beginning, by the middle and was no longer found it intriguing.
Although I'm a huge JP fan, I have a problem with his confidence in certain conclusions he draws while I believe he tends to straw-man others' points of view, specifically the Arminian point of view. As someone who considers themselves an Arminian (with a high view of God's pursuit, initiation, and sovereignty in salvation), I'm not saying he shouldn't present his interpretation, it's just a turn-off when someone presents your view in a way you don't recognize. Truly not that big of a deal, but just was the straw that broke the camel's back (the camel being me ready to move onto another book and being a bit worn of the redundancy).
April 21, 2025
Probably one of the most underrated books in the Christian English-speaking-world today.
Massive impact on my view of the word "faith" in the Bible. Pinpointed my issue for motivation in the Christian life.
This is an essential book in my opinion. But it might just be me that thinks this way. This is a Piper essential. If you want to know who Piper is and what is one of the "greats", this is it.
Massive impact on my view of the word "faith" in the Bible. Pinpointed my issue for motivation in the Christian life.
This is an essential book in my opinion. But it might just be me that thinks this way. This is a Piper essential. If you want to know who Piper is and what is one of the "greats", this is it.
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