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About this book

There is a certain irony to the fruit of suffering.

-Bunyan's confinement taught him the pilgrim path of Christian freedom.
-Cowper's mental illness yielded sweet music of the mind for troubled souls.
-Brainerd's smouldering misery of isolation and disease exploded in a global mission beyond all imagination.

'Irony and disproportion are all God's way,' says John Piper. 'We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it little. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big. Barren Sarah gives birth to the child of promise. Gideon's three hundred men defeat a hundred thousand Midianites. A slingshot in the hand of ...

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Specifications

Contributors:
John Piper
ISBN:
9780851115535
Format:
Paperback
First published:
May 2007
Dimensions:
135mm x 215mm x 14mm
Weight:
0.24 kg
Language:
English
Pages:
175
Publisher:
IVP

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Where the Fruit of Affliction Grows

Chapter One
"To Live Upon God That Is Invisible"
Suffering and Service in the Life of John Bunyan

Chapter Two
"The Clouds Ye So Much Dread Are Big with Mercy"
Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Life of William Cowper

Chapter Three
"Oh, That I Might Never Loiter on My Heavenly Journey!"
Misery and Mission in the Life of David Brainerd

Conclusion
A Plea to Follow in the Fruitful Wake of the Suffering Swans

A Note on Resources
Desiring God Ministries

Index of Scripture
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects

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