Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life than to Waste It

by John Piper

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2013

Overview

A choice lies before you: waste your life or live with risk. Either sit on the sidelines or get in the game. After all, life was no cakewalk for Jesus, and he didn’t promise it would be any easier for his followers. We shouldn’t be surprised by resistance and persecution. Yet most of us play it safe.

Discover in these pages a foundation for fearlessness. Hear God’s promise to go with you into the unknown. And let Risk Is Right help you see the joys of a faith-filled and seriously rewarding life of Jesus dependent abandon!

Interested in more? Check out the Crossway John Piper Collection (39 vols.).

Key Features

• Advocates boldly living in light of Christian truth
• Draws lessons from the life and death of Jesus
• Challenges readers to find rewards in risking for God's Kingdom

Contents

• The Ultimate Meaning of Life
• What Is Risk?
• Stories of Risk in the Old Testament
• The Great Risk Taker in the New Testament
• When the People of God Risk and When They Don’t
• Right and Wrong Reasons to Risk
• The Great Eight and the Foundation of Risk
• On the Far Side of Every Faith-Filled Risk: Triumphant Love

Top Highlights

“To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.^{3” (Page 21)}

“What Jesus meant was that our Father in heaven would never let us be tested beyond what we are able (1 Cor. 10:13). If there is one scrap of bread that you need, as God’s child, in order to maintain your faith in the dungeon of starvation, you will have it. God does not promise enough food for comfort or life—he promises enough so that you can trust him and do his will.” (Page 45)

“If our single, 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 life is risk, and risk is right. To run from it is to waste your life.” (Page 17)

“I define risk very simply as an action that exposes you to the possibility of loss or injury” (Page 17)

“It is the will of God that we be uncertain about how life on this earth will turn out for us. And therefore it is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life than to Waste It
• Author: John Piper
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 64
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Risk perception; Opportunity
• ISBNs: 9781433535345, 9781433535352, 9781433535369, 9781433535376, 1433535343, 1433535351, 143353536X, 1433535378
• Resource ID: LLS:RISKISRIGHT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:43:36Z

About John Piper

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).

Hear how Piper uses Logos for his Bible Study.

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Key Features

• Advocates boldly living in light of Christian truth
• Draws lessons from the life and death of Jesus
• Challenges readers to find rewards in risking for God's Kingdom

Contents

• The Ultimate Meaning of Life
• What Is Risk?
• Stories of Risk in the Old Testament
• The Great Risk Taker in the New Testament
• When the People of God Risk and When They Don’t
• Right and Wrong Reasons to Risk
• The Great Eight and the Foundation of Risk
• On the Far Side of Every Faith-Filled Risk: Triumphant Love

Top Highlights

“To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.^{3” (Page 21)}

“What Jesus meant was that our Father in heaven would never let us be tested beyond what we are able (1 Cor. 10:13). If there is one scrap of bread that you need, as God’s child, in order to maintain your faith in the dungeon of starvation, you will have it. God does not promise enough food for comfort or life—he promises enough so that you can trust him and do his will.” (Page 45)

“If our single, 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 life is risk, and risk is right. To run from it is to waste your life.” (Page 17)

“I define risk very simply as an action that exposes you to the possibility of loss or injury” (Page 17)

“It is the will of God that we be uncertain about how life on this earth will turn out for us. And therefore it is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life than to Waste It
• Author: John Piper
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 64
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Risk perception; Opportunity
• ISBNs: 9781433535345, 9781433535352, 9781433535369, 9781433535376, 1433535343, 1433535351, 143353536X, 1433535378
• Resource ID: LLS:RISKISRIGHT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:43:36Z

About John Piper

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).

Hear how Piper uses Logos for his Bible Study.