Pleasure Is Only Protected by Pleasure

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Unless our pursuit of pleasure has proper boundaries, we’ll always come up short of the lasting joy we’re looking for.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	We're honored to be joined by Speaker and author Paul Trip on the Aspastra John podcast
0:09.4	this week.
0:10.9	Paul, you are like-minded to our ministry.
0:13.8	You seem to get Christian hedonism about as well as anyone.
0:16.9	You understand that life is competing glories.
0:20.0	You understand the explosive power of a new affection.
0:23.2	You get these dynamics.
0:25.4	And it seems like your contribution to the church is really helping others to apply these
0:29.5	realities to everyday life.
0:31.7	Would you agree with that?
0:33.2	Yeah, I think that's, I think that's true.
0:35.6	And I think I think a much of what I do in terms of the gospel and everyday life is
0:41.9	driven by those glory themes that I think John really influenced for me earlier in my
0:48.5	ministry.
0:49.5	And man, I think life this side of eternity is just one big glory war.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:57.4	And so you do this with a very concrete application.
0:59.4	Yeah.
1:00.4	And I think that's what that's the piece of the puzzle that God has entrusted to me.
1:04.2	I'm, I think of myself as a theologian, but I do it in the street.
1:08.6	And you do it with style.
1:10.7	Okay.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Desiring God, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Desiring God and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.