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Can we really know God if we don't know what makes him happy?

That's the question that is prompting the release of a new edition of John Piper's book,

The Pleasures of God. Many of our listeners, most I trust,

have read Desiring God, and I hope you've also read The Pleasures of God. I read that years ago,

and I'm grateful for this new revised edition. This is one of those foundational books for Piper, and in it, he navigates the biblical evidence

to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about him so that we might become

like the one we behold.

What does God take pleasure in? What pleases him and what are his

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