A Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
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Overview
This definitive collection of John Piper’s missions-oriented sermons, drawn from his 35+ years of ministry, challenges Christians everywhere to cultivate a holy ambition to preach Christ where he has not yet been named.
The apostle Paul had a holy ambition: to preach the gospel to peoples who had never heard. He ached to proclaim Jesus where he had not yet been named. So today, missionaries cross cultures, learn languages, and pour out their lives in word and deed to break through thousands of years of darkness and the reign of Satan over a people who do not know the King of kings and the Savior of the world. Missionaries go to, and minister among, peoples who otherwise have little to no access to the saving news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection.
And since Jesus’s Great Commission to make disciples of all nations is still in effect — and since there are thousands of peoples today who have never heard of him — every church should pray that God would not only make all of us evangelists among our own people, but also that he would raise up from among us missionaries to take the gospel where it has never gone before.
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- Challenges Christians everywhere to cultivate a holy ambition to preach Christ.
- Encourages to proclaim Jesus where he had not yet been named.
- Invites to take the gospel where it has never gone before.
- Title: A Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
- Author: John Piper
- Edition: Second Revised Edition
- Publisher: Desiring God
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Sermons, English; Missionaries › Appointment, call, and election
- ISBNs: 9780982768990, 0982768990, 9781949253061, 9781949253085, 1949253066, 1949253082
- Resource ID: LLS:AHOLYAMBITION
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T21:02:38Z
John Piper (b. 1946) is a widely respected theologian and bestselling author who serves as founder and lead teacher at Desiring God and is chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, Piper served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church. He has authored more than 50 books, and more than 30 years of his preaching and writing are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. Piper resides in the Minneapolis area with his wife of 51 years, and has five children and 14 grandchildren.
Piper attended Wheaton College where he majored in literature and minored in philosophy. He completed his Bachelor of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he studied under Dr. Daniel Fuller. Piper received his Doctorate in Theology from the University of Munich and taught biblical studies for six years at Bethel College.
In 1994, Piper founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides Piper’s sermons, articles, and information on titles he has authored. One of his bestsellers, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist, prompted the name of the ministry.
Several of Piper’s books have been Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian book award winners including What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God’s Passion for His Glory. The Crossway John Piper Collection (39 vols.) includes 39 titles from Piper, including Love Your Enemies and A Hunger for God. His preaching ministry of more than 30 years is available in the John Piper Sermon Archive (1980–2014).
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