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Overcoming Sin and Temptation 24 reviews
John Owen
Crossway Books, 2006
Indispensable!
I've read many books on "Christian living", all pale in comparison to this master. He is streets ahead of Stott, Piper, White, Schaeffer and the plethora of modern authors who've unsuccessfully (and I say that only after seeing Owen's acheivement) tackled this topic.
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Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism 40 reviews
Crossway Books, 2006
Biblical Truth exudes such commentaries
John Piper, and friends, are true Godly people seeking to help us understand God's Word. This book does that and the commentary included on this book by others shows the unwillingness to submit to the authority of God's Word and His Son. God's Word, and this book, show a beautiful role of men and women that, if followed, help make for a better world. It does NOT in any way put women down. It DOES ...
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Don't Waste Your Life 53 reviews
John Piper
Crossway Books, 2003
Don't Go to Heaven Without Reading this Book
This is one of those little books that everyone MUST read before going to Heaven. It's life changing in the sense that you'll rethink what you're doing with your life and start thinking about what you want to do with your life. This book encouraged my wife and I to begin planning for our career transition from business to ministry. Retirement is simply not a biblical concept, but transition ...
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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist107 reviews
John Piper
Multnomah Books, 2003
Oh taste and see that the Lord is good!
It is a tremendous grace that a friend directed me towards this dear book, and because of it I will never be the same. This book is a jar that has been carefully filled at the fountain of living waters. "Oh taste and see that the Lord is good." I have tasted and seen here...
This book will take you soaring on the winds of the manifold Glories of God. He is the treasure to be ultimately ...
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Let the Nations Be Glad! 2d ed.32 reviews
John Piper
Baker Academic, 2003
Book Review: Let the Nations Be Glad! by John Piper
John Piper has been the Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1980. He is the author of over 30 books and the founder of Desiring God ministries. The second edition of Let the Nations Be Glad was published in 2003.
Summary of Let the Nations Be Glad
On the back cover of the second edition of Let the Nations Be Glad, Patrick Johnstone, author of ...
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The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World 4 reviews
Crossway Books, 2007
Collection of essays to make you think
The whole collection of essays could easily be summarized in Voddie Baucham's statement on page 62: "Christ is 'before all things.' Why did you choose your last job? Was it because of the supremacy of Christ in truth as it relates to your purpose for existing? Or was it because it paid you more than the job you had before? Pastor, how did you choose your current church? Was it because of a ...
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The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright 14 reviews
John Piper
Crossway Books, 2007
Piper is a respectful, thorough and clear communicator
After reading Wright's "What Saint Paul Really Said" I know by instinct that, while he stated applicable truths to today's evangelicals and provided a certain balance that we all need, he also excluded some important aspects of the gospel as presented in Paul's epistle to the Romans.
What's especially great about this book is that it lives out the gospel by respectfully addressing Wright's ...
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What Jesus Demands from the World23 reviews
John Piper
Crossway Books, 2006
Are all Christians really going to Heaven?
"I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." ~ Luke 15:17
For Christians who take their salvation lightly, this book may shock them into reality. "What Jesus Demands from the World" is based on the words of Christ and for the most part the author takes them literally. He speaks out against divorce and ...
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Future Grace22 reviews
John Piper
Multnomah Books, 2005
Most Needed Theology in Modern Christianity
The theology explained in this book is one of the most neglected corners of the gospel in our day. We live in a day when people are taught that you can be a Christian and live like a pagan at the same time. Grace doesn't only justify; grace also makes us holy. "The just shall live by faith." This is simply the most profound, Scripture-drenched books I have ever read. God changed my heart and ...
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When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy15 reviews
John Piper
Crossway Books, 2004
insightful and profound even after multiple readings
I'm in the middle of my third pass through this book. I find myself underlining new things, struck by Piper's passionate exhortation to trust God and fight for joy in Him. If you find yourself spiritually lazy and apathetic, I can't commend this book to you enough.
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When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy9 reviews
John Piper
Crossway Books, 2006
Worthy of More Than What 79 Pages Delivers ...
When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy
John Piper does not waste words nor space in filling this book with things other than scripture explaining the root of depression and Christian ways in assisting those afflicted with hopelessness, bitterness, and sadness. Darkness is the main impetus that keeps a depressed soul down, riddled with the falsehoods, ...
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Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry21 reviews
John Piper
B&H Publishing Group, 2002
A must for all pastors
This book is written first of all by one of America's greatest pastors.He deals with issues that futre pastors may encounter in ministry but strictly through the word of God. John Piper looks at these issues through a servants heart rather than the eye of one who pastors asa profession. Great book.
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Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure5 reviews
John Piper
Multnomah Books, 2007
We Sin Because It Offers Happiness: Don't Believe the Lie
Battling unbelief contains chapters excerpted from Piper's much longer and more complete work, Future Grace. In Future Grace, each of these chapters is accompanied by two or three chapters setting forward the promises of God that we are to believe and put our hope in in order to win the battle with sin. I highly recommend Future Grace, but if the 400+ pages of that book may be a little daunting ...
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Sex and the Supremacy of Christ9 reviews
Crossway Books, 2005
This book needed to be written a long time ago!
Last Spring, Justin Taylor of Between Two Worlds Blog (and Desiring God Ministries) put out a call for bloggers to review a book he had a part in - Sex and the Supremecy of Christ. I was one of the lucky few who got in early enough to be blessed with the opportunity, and below entails my thoughts on the book.
First, I would like to comment on how appropriate the subject for the book is for ...
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The Supremacy of God in Preaching18 reviews
John Piper
Baker Books, 2004
An excellent read for pastors and pastors-to-be
This is an excellent book that unabashedly attacks some of the problems with preaching today. The author argues effectively for a return to a focus on God in preaching instead of all the trends and gimmicks used in so many churches today. As an example of a God-focused preacher, Piper spotlights Jonathan Edwards' life and ministry.
Very educational and readable.
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Suffering and the Sovereignty of God10 reviews
Crossway Books, 2006
Humbling Essays
This book has some great essays. It provides a great mix of theology, and personal testimony, and narratives of how God uses suffering to progress the gospel. The question of suffering is very complex so having a variety of writers from diverse backgrounds attacking the issue from slightly different perspectives helps the reader to understand how God uses suffering to glorify Himself, to mature ...
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Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution7 reviews
Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, ...
Crossway Books, 2007
A Line in the Sand
The doctrine of penal substitution doesn't, on the face of it, sound too glorious. It is a doctrine involving curse, punishment, blood and death. It is little wonder that people object to it so strenuously. Indeed, this teaching has been at the very center of a rift within the church--a rift that seems to be growing ever-wider and ever more visible. Once the realm of scholars cloistered away in ...
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God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself15 reviews
John Piper
Crossway Books, 2005
Don't underestimate the title...
John Piper called this book his most important that he has ever written. With that in mind, I decided to read it. I have a lot of respect for this man in his preaching, his ecclesiology, his missiology and especially his overall orthopraxy. As I started to read the book though, I felt like it was beginning to be a little repetitive and really didn't know how Dr. Piper was going to fill up close ...
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Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ13 reviews
John Piper
Crossway Books, 2004
Savor the Savior
The healing of the soul begins by restoring the glory of God to its flaming, all-attractive place at the center (of our soul). (p.15)
There is no one who doubts there is something that needs healing in the human soul.
But the proposed cures are many, even in Christianity.
The fact that American Christians are largely just as dysfunctional as unbelievers is testimony that we largely ...
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The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God37 reviews
John Piper
Multnomah Books, 2000
Life transforming insights
I'm involved in a weekly Bible study using this book. The richness and spiritual quality of intimate relationship with God as expressed through Mr Piper is unsurpassed in present day devotionals. Highly recommended for those desiring to do more than just read a book; it is for those willing to put God's principles into practice.
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