What’s the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined according to the Bible (Study Guide)
This study guide—a companion to the What’s the Difference? DVD—commends the beauty and the biblical truth of God’s plan for men and women as part of a six-session, guided group study. Each lesson comes complete with Scripture and key quotations for reflection, penetrating questions, and five daily assignments per week to prepare group members for and reinforce Piper’s powerful teaching so that all may come to recognize and embrace our God-given differences.
- Designed to be read in small group settings
- Reflection questions allow for deeper interaction with the text
- Focuses on gender difference, when the trend of culture is to minimize the observable dissimilarities
- Title: What’s the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined according to the Bible (Study Guide)
- Author: John Piper
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 187
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Sex role › Biblical teaching; Men (Christian theology) › Biblical teaching; Masculinity › Religious aspects--Christianity; Women › Biblical teaching; Femininity › Religious aspects--Christianity; Sex role › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781433507670, 9781433507687, 9781433507694, 1433507676, 1433507684, 1433507692
- Resource ID: LLS:WHATSDIFFERENCE
- Resource Type: text.monograph.bible-study
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-18T18:34:47Z
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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