About DWYL

What Is Don’t Waste Your Life?

A Message

We want people to know that they will find their greatest happiness and deepest fulfillment when they spend their lives magnifying Christ.

We want to show them that God loves them, but that this love may be different than they’ve ever thought.

And we want people to see that the unwasted life is the life that seeks its own joy by putting the infinite value of Christ on display for the world to see.

A Book

This message is more fully explained in the book Don’t Waste Your Life.

A Campaign

This year we are trying to spread the message of Don’t Waste Your Life with a more concerted effort. In conjunction with the book, we have created a study guide, a group study kit, and this website in order to help people find their happiness and purpose in Jesus.

Share the Message

If you too want as many people as possible to find their life’s purpose in the cause of Christ, then you may want to share this message with others. Here are some ideas:

• Email this site to a friend.
• Tell your friends about the Don’t Waste Your Life video podcast.
• Pass along whatever you find helpful by selecting “Email to a Friend” on the right side of any resource on the Desiring God website.
• Let us know how Don’t Waste Your Life has affected your life.
• Lead a group study.
• Sponsor books for those who can’t afford them.

Who Is Behind Don’t Waste Your Life?

Desiring God

This website and all the Don’t Waste Your Life resources are developed and sponsored by Desiring God, the ministry of John Piper. Desiring God offers all 27 years of John Piper’s sermon audio and manuscripts at no charge as well as many other products and free resources to help people find their joy in God.

John Piper

John Piper is the author of the book, Don’t Waste Your Life. He is preaching pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN.

Do We Practice What We Preach?

We promote a message that says to deny yourself for the sake of Christ and his cause, so it is reasonable to wonder whether we follow our own direction.

We try to. One of our fundamental values is what we call wartime living. In the same way that a country during war focuses its resources on winning, we also try to focus our resources on the goal of achieving our mission. This means living a strategically simple lifestyle, so that more resources can be directed to war effort. As individuals, we must each discern how the Lord wishes for us to live out a wartime lifestyle. As an organization, we will constantly try to be wise and Christ-honoring with the resources he provides for us.

One practical way we try to show that we are about the gospel, not money, is by giving away all our online resources and offering a whatever-you-can-afford policy on the products we sell.