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When I Don't Desire God

How to Fight for Joy

The Edition

Notes: The 2013 redesign, carrying a new preface written ten years after the first edition of 2004 -- Piper notes in it that his pastorate at Bethlehem had since ended and his daughter grown up. The book is the companion to Desiring God for people who find that they do not in fact desire God, and it treats joy as something to be fought for rather than felt.

Preface to the Tenth-Anniversary Edition
Preface and a Prayer
1. Why I Wrote This Book: Sustaining the Sacrifice of Love
2. What Is the Difference between Desire and Delight? Discovering How Both and Neither Is the Goal
3. The Call to Fight for Joy in God: Taking God's Demand for Delight Seriously
4. Joy in God Is a Gift of God: Doing Ourselves What Must Be Done for Us
5. The Fight for Joy Is a Fight to See: Valuing God through the Eyes of the Heart and the Ears of the Head
6. Fighting for Joy like a Justified Sinner: Learning the Secret of Gutsy Guilt
7. The Worth of God's Word in the Fight for Joy: Seeing the Measure of This Mighty Weapon
8. How to Wield the Word in the Fight for Joy: Musing, Memorizing, and the Message of God
9. The Focus of Prayer in the Fight for Joy: Desiring All Else Only Because We Desire God
10. The Practice of Prayer in the Fight for Joy: Morning, Noon, and Evening without Ceasing
11. How to Wield the World in the Fight for Joy: Using All Five Senses to See the Glory of God
12. When the Darkness Does Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God -- and Joy
Notes
Scripture Index
Person Index
Subject Index