Matt Kottman

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Suppose you’re sick. Your friend brings a meal. What meets your needs—the meal or the friend? Both. Of course, without your friend, there would be no meal; but even without a meal, you would still treasure your friendship. Hence, your friend is both your higher pleasure and the source of your secondary pleasure (the meal). Likewise, God is the source of all lesser goods, so that when they satisfy us, it’s God himself who satisfies us. (In fact, it’s God who satisfies you by giving you the friend who gives you the meal.) When I speak elsewhere in the book of the multifaceted joys of the ...more
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Heaven: A Comprehensive Guide to Everything the Bible Says About Our Eternal Home
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