Doctrine Matters by Piper, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITOR’S PREFACE 1. GOD IS

1.1 Future-Creating Realities 1.2 God Absolutely Is 1.3 Understanding Exodus 3 1.4 Three Things God Says About Himself 1.5 The Truth Makes an Irrepressible People 1.6 Ten Things It Means for God to Be Who He Is 1.7 The Cosmic Outrage 1.8 Never Make God Peripheral A. MORE ABOUT GOD Seven Glorious Truths About God in Isaiah 6

2. THE GLORY OF GOD

2.1 The Bible Is Clear About the Glory of God 2.2 Isaiah’s Testimony to the Glory of God 2.3 How “Glorify” Is Different from “Beautify” 2.4 Why Did God Make This Particular World? 2.5 Five Points on God’s Glory and Christ’s Cross 2.6 Four Questions About Your Life B. MORE ABOUT THE GLORY OF GOD Seven Examples of God’s Commitment to His Name

3. CHRISTIAN HEDONISM

4. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD

4.1 What It Means to Be God 4.2 God Purposes All Things 4.3 A Straightforward Statement on Sovereignty 4.4 The Choice We All Face 4.5 God’s Sovereignty in the World Around Us 4.6 God’s Sovereignty in the Details 4.7 God’s Sovereignty in Human Actions 4.8 God’s Sovereignty in Your Own Life 4.9 Seven Exhortations for How We Live Because God Is Sovereign D. MORE ABOUT GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY The Preciousness of God’s Sovereignty in Our Pain

5. THE GOSPEL OF GOD IN CHRIST

5.1 What Is a Theological “Trademark?” 5.2 The Price and Prize of the Gospel in Romans 5 5.3 A Testimony from Church History 5.4 The Price and Prize of the Gospel in 1 Corinthians 15 5.5 The Love of God Is the Gift of Himself E. MORE ABOUT THE GOSPEL How Is the Gospel the Power of God unto Salvation?

6. THE CALL TO GLOBAL MISSIONS

6.1 A Powerful Image of the Missions Effort 6.2 Do You Have a Compulsion to Go? 6.3 Ten Biblical Convictions on Global Missions F. MORE ABOUT MISSIONS Four Motives for Missions from John 10:16

7. LIVING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

7.1 Eight Crucial Things to See in 2 Thessalonians 1:1–12 7.2 A Panorama of the Christian Life 7.3 What It Means for the Everyday 7.4 Why We Should Be Grateful 7.5 Faith in Jesus Means Being Satisfied in Him 7.6 Six Examples of God’s Promises in Your Life G. MORE ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN LIFE Build Your Life on the Mercies of God The Life That Overcomes by Faith

8. THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

8.1 Will You Endure in Faith? 8.2 A Theological Overview on Perseverance 8.3 God’s Unbreakable Faithfulness 8.4 How Is Our Perseverance Connected to the Cross of Christ? 8.5 The Necessity of Community in the Certainty of Security 8.6 There Is No Substitute for the Church H. MORE ABOUT PERSEVERANCE Settling Our Security in God Alone

9. BIBLICAL MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD

9.1 What Does “Complementarian” Mean? 9.2 The Wonder of Being Human 9.3 Gender Roles Are Not About Competency 9.4 The Testimony and Application of Ephesians 5:22–33 9.5 A Specific Challenge to Men I. MORE ABOUT BIBLICAL MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD Conflict and Confusion After the Fall

10. SORROWFUL YET ALWAYS REJOICING

10.1 What the World Needs to See in Us 10.2 Why Does It Matter What the World Needs? 10.3 Removing Obstacles in Three Steps 10.4 Six Amazing Paradoxes in Gospel Ministry 10.5 Prosperity Does Not Commend Us 10.6 Two Pictures of Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing 10.7 Salt and Light in This World J. MORE ABOUT SUFFERING Six Reasons to Keep on Rejoicing No Matter What