Piper John - Stand: a Call for the Endurance of the Saints

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Stand

Copyright 2008 by Desiring God

Published by Crossway Books

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First printing, 2008

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-0476-1

Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-0477-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stand : a call for the endurance of the saints / John Piper and
Justin Taylor, general editors.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-1-4335-0114-2 (tpb)

1. Perseverance (Theology) I. Piper, John, 1946 . II. Taylor, Justin,
1976 . III. Title.

BT768.S73 2008

243dc22 2008008297

ML 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08

15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To
JOHN MACARTHUR

whose life and ministry stands
on the Word of God

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM). Before founding EPM in 1990, he served as a pastor for fourteen years. He has spoken around the world and has taught on the adjunct faculties of Multnomah Bible College and Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Randy is the best-selling author of twenty-seven books including the novels Safely Home and Deception. His fourteen nonfiction works include Money, Possessions, and Eternity; The Treasure Principle; The Purity Principle; The Grace and Truth Paradox; Why ProLife? and Heaven. Randy has written for many magazines and produces the popular periodical Eternal Perspectives. The father of two married daughters, Randy lives in Gresham, Oregon, with his wife and best friend, Nanci.

Jerry Bridges is a well-known Christian writer and conference speaker whose best-known book, The Pursuit of Holiness, has sold well over a million copies. His nine published books have sold over 2.5 million copies and have been translated and published in sixteen different languages. In addition to his writing ministry, Jerry also serves as a guest lecturer at several seminaries and speaks at numerous conferences all over the world. He has served on the staff of The Navigators since 1955 and currently serves as a resource person to The Navigators University Students Ministry in the United States. Jerry received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Jane, have two married children and six grandchildren and reside in Colorado Springs.

John MacArthur is a popular author and conference speaker and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, since 1969. John is a fifth-generation pastor, and his pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly two thousand English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes his books, software, audiotapes, and CDs. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes. John is the president of The Masters College and The Masters Seminary, and he has written hundreds of books and study guides. His best-selling titles include The GospelAccording to Jesus; Ashamed of the Gospel; Twelve Ordinary Men; and TheMacArthur Study Bible, a 1998 ECPA Gold Medallion recipient. John and his wife, Patricia, have four grown children and fourteen grandchildren.

John Piper is pastor for preaching and vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, where he first sensed Gods call to enter the ministry. He went on to earn degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (BD) and the University of Munich (DTheol). For six years he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church. He has written, among other books, Desiring God; Dont Waste Your Life; God Is the Gospel; BattlingUnbelief; and What Jesus Demands from the World. He is married to Nol and has four sons, one daughter, and eight grandchildren.

Helen Roseveare was born in England in 1925. She was born again while a medical student at Cambridge University in 1945, joined WEC International missionary society in 1950, and sailed for the Belgian Congo in 1953. Helen served first under Belgian colonial rule, then during the transfer to independence, then through the civil war in 1965, and finally in what became Zaire (renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo). During the next twenty years, Helen ministered by setting up a rural hospital, several rural clinics, and a training school for national paramedical workers, and by joining in the formation of a large inter-mission referral hospital and training college for nurses and midwives. Since 1973 she has served on the home-end of WEC International as a deputation worker, speaking to young people, university students, and church groups all over the English-speaking world, challenging them to consider Gods claim on their lives for full-time service. She has also written several books for her mission, underlining principles for Christian living and missionary outreach work.