Don’t Waste Your Life (Study Guide)
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Overview
This study guide is based on and is a companion to Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper.
Give up lesser pursuits and make your life count for eternity. Ask the average person to sum up his or her ideal life, and you get the American dream: College. Job. Marriage. House. Kids. Comfortable income. Cushy retirement. But God has designed us for far more than this. Rather than wasting life on lesser pursuits, the members of your church, ministry or small group can, with this high-impact resource, awaken to the soul-saving reality that to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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- Complements the core teachings of Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper as a dedicated study companion
- Challenges readers to abandon “lesser pursuits” in favor of making their lives count for eternity
- Equips church groups and ministries to awaken to the biblical reality that “to live is Christ, and to die is gain”
- Introduction to This Study Guide
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Don’t Waste Your Life
- Lesson 2: My Search for a Single Passion to Live By
- Lesson 3: Breakthrough—the Beauty of Christ, My Joy
- Lesson 4: Boasting Only in the Cross, The Blazing Center of the Glory of God
- Lesson 5: Magnifying Christ Through Pain and Death
- Lesson 6: Risk Is Right—Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It and The Goal of Life— Gladly Making Others Glad in God
- Lesson 7: Living to Prove He Is More Precious Than Life
- Lesson 8: Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5
- Lesson 9: The Majesty of Christ in Missions and Mercy— A Plea to This Generation
- Lesson 10: Review and Conclusion
- Leader’s Guide
- Appendix A: A Five-Session Intensive Option
- Appendix B: Leading Productive Discussions
- Appendix C: Weekly Activity Log
- Appendix D: List of Helpful Resources
- Desiring God Ministries
- Title: Don’t Waste Your Life (Study Guide)
- Author: John Piper
- Publisher: Desiring God
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 127
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9781433506338, 1433506335
- Resource ID: LLS:DONTWASTESG
- Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
- Metadata Last Updated: 2026-01-30T19:35:00Z
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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