The Hidden Smile of God

by John Piper

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Only available in paperback. The 2nd volume in Piper's The Swans are not Silent series - a biographical series focuses on men whose faith God strengthened with trials, to shape servants whose worship and witness was filled with a supernatural passion for His glory and truth. This volume covers the lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd.

He suffered imprisonment for twelve years, even when a simple promise to cease preaching would have gained him freedom. But Bunyan's steadfast belief that God ordered every trial would not allow him to relent, and moved him to rely even more upon "Him who is invisible."

William Cowper: Even when his own sky was filled with clouds of dread, Cowper's poetry was a reflection of the sustaining character of God--music for the mind that led him to endure, and to worship more deeply.

David Brainerd: So great was Brainerd's desire to honor God that he joyously cried, "Oh for holiness! Oh, for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God." Through the loneliness of wilderness ministry and the agony of tuberculosis, he pressed on, transforming world missions forever.

Great privilege. Great pain. God's design. This is God's way: to take the privilege of faith and strengthen it with trials so that we can worship and witness with a greater passion for God.

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