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A basic guide to twenty Christian beliefs that is solid, yet readable, and not intimidating for new believers and Christians in general. Includes chapter review questions. It is a condensation of Wayne Grudem’s award-winning book on systematic theology, prized by pastors and teachers everywhere.

"You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body”. I have written this book to help you taste those words as sweet instead of bitter or boring.

What is future grace? It is all that God promises to be for us from this second on. Saving faith means being confident and satisfied in this ever- arriving future grace. This is why saving faith is also sanctifying faith. The power of sin's promise is broken by the power of a superior satisfaction; namely, faith in future grace. Gratitude for past grace was never meant to empower future obedience. Tomorrow's crisis demands tomorrow's grace. And faith that future grace will be there is the victory that overcomes the world. Future Grace contains 31 chapters - one for each day of the month - including practical chapters on how faith in future grace defeats anxiety, pride, shame, lust, despondency and more.

"Gospel" means good news-but what makes the good news good? What is the goal of the gospel, without which it is no longer good? It is that Christ's death brings sinners to God! Were it to bring us anywhere else we would be left hopeless. But the gospel is that God gives us himself-Christ died to give us Christ-, and this self-giving is his highest mercy to us and the best news for us! The most profound, most exceedingly gracious, final and decisive good of the good news is Christ himself as the glorious image of God revealed for our endless satisfaction.

The death of Jesus is of foremost importance for the world. And the central issue of Jesus’ death is not the cause, but the meaning—God’s meaning. In this book, revised and updated from the previously published The Passion of Jesus Christ, John Piper has gathered from the New Testament fifty reasons behind the crucifixion of the Christ. Not fifty causes, but fifty purposes—in answer to the most important question facing us in the twenty-first century: Why did Jesus suffer and die?

You've never met him in person, and you don't know anyone who has, but there is a way to know him. Look at the Jesus revealed in the Bible. Keep your eyes open, and fill them with the portrait of Jesus in God's Word. Ask God for the grace to understand, and you will see the truth of his Son. This book is meant to help you see Jesus as the treasure that he is so you will enjoy him above all else.