“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love,” Henry Scougal wrote in his 17th-century work, The Life of God in the Soul of Man. And if this is true of humans, might it also be true of God?

That is the starting place to John Piper’s book, The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God. He recently led a five-hour seminar on the book in Minneapolis, all of which is now available for free. Here is the seminar in three parts:

The Pleasures of God – Part 1:

The Pleasures of God – Part 2:

The Pleasures of God – Part 3: