Excerpt
“I do love the Bible and try to steep my mind and heart in it year after year. So what I have written here is partly meditations on biblical reality and partly applications to contemporary life” (p. 11).
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About the Book
This revision of the follow-up to the popular A Godward Life adds twenty fresh entries to the original 120 daily meditations that are solid meat and sweet milk from God’s Word. The new entries broach current and controversial subject matter, such as partial-birth abortion and gay marriage. Piper asks the hardest questions and finds wonderfully poignant but practical and applicable truths from the Bible. These 350 pages of substantive spiritual nourishment will brace readers’ minds with truth and nourish their hearts with God’s sovereign grace. Pastors and lay leaders particularly will appreciate the three indexes included. They don’t need to look any further to find a pertinent illustration or tidbit of inspiration!
The soul tastes truth like the lips taste food. Spiritual hunger cries out for rich, substantial nourishment. It is remarkable how much meat these daily portions contain. Skillfully presented by pastor John Piper, this devotional of contemporary meditations on biblical reality will whet your appetite for more of God Himself and refresh you in your daily communion with Christ.
John Piper’s life-long love affair with his church is evidenced in each of the 140 articles included in Taste and See. Originally, each article was written for his flock at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. They are sometimes follow-ups to Sunday sermons; sometimes meditations of a pastor’s heart, expressing his longing for the holiness of his congregation. Many of the entries are his own relentless interrogations of a biblical text. A few are colorful anecdotes from a pastor’s daily life—a pastor whose heartbeat for God pulsates through every word.
First Edition 1999; Revised Edition 2005
Multnomah Books (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Translations
Korean
Publisher: Good Seed Publishing
Purchase: Aladin
ISBN: 89-5874-074-4
Portugese
Publisher: Editora Fiel
ISBN: 978-85-99145-46-3
Spanish
Publisher: Editorial Vida
Purchase: Lehmanns Media
ISBN: 978-0-8297-4861-X
Related Resources
- Why Memorize Scripture? (article)
- Life As a Vapor (book)
- A Godward Life (book)
- Pierced by the Word (book)
- Sweeter Than Honey, Better Than Gold (sermon)
- The Word of God: Living, Active, Sharp (sermon)
About John Piper
John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of more than 50 books including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist. John and his wife, Noël, have five children and twelve grandchildren.
Endorsements
“This volume is a treasure of true doctrine applied to life.” —R. Albert Mohler Jr., President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“Going to sleep with John Piper’s words on your mind will coax you from complacency and wake you up to a passionate faith.” —Phil Callaway, speaker and bestselling author
