Friday, November 26, 2004
What I'm Reading Today - The Pleasures of God
I thought I'd use this space to start compiling some reviews of books that I've read or are reading, particularly Christian Books.
So today I'll start with a book I'm about 3/4 of the way through.....
John Piper is best known for his work Desiring God, and this book has a similar popular, yet detailed approach to attributes of God.
This book kind of follows on from Desiring God, focusing on the truth....
I won't deny that there are page and a half long footnotes, and sometimes you have to read this twice or thrice to nut out the flow of the concept, but this is an enriching book, filled with truths of God that we can learn from and aspire to living out.
This work is a scripturally true representation of the Sovereign God we love, asking difficult questions of difficult passages.
So today I'll start with a book I'm about 3/4 of the way through.....
John Piper is best known for his work Desiring God, and this book has a similar popular, yet detailed approach to attributes of God.
This book kind of follows on from Desiring God, focusing on the truth....
"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him...... We will be most satisfied in God when we know why God himself is most satisfied in God."Therefore, to most satisfy God, we should emulate the things about God that most satisfy God.
I won't deny that there are page and a half long footnotes, and sometimes you have to read this twice or thrice to nut out the flow of the concept, but this is an enriching book, filled with truths of God that we can learn from and aspire to living out.
This work is a scripturally true representation of the Sovereign God we love, asking difficult questions of difficult passages.
