Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life [Paperback]

John Piper (Author)

Book Description

Release date: August 9, 2005

A Devotional Powerhouse!

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!

Expanded Edition of the Popular Godward Life II Devotional

Taste and see…The Lord is good.
Psalm 34:8

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.

“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

Story Behind the Book

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.

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About the Author

John Piper, Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis , Minnesota , since 1980, is a respected theologian and author. More than two million volumes of his works have sold, including The Passion of Jesus Christ, Desiring God, Pierced by the Word, The Pleasures of God, and Life as a Vapor. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Munich and taught biblical studies for six years at Bethel College before becoming a pastor. He and his wife, Noel, have four sons and one daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Multnomah Books (August 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590524497
• ISBN-13: 978-1590524497
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 8.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

John Piper is the Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, where he first sensed God's call to enter the ministry. He went on to earn degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.) and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem. John is the author of more than 30 books, including Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, What Jesus Demands from the World, and Don't Waste Your Life.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best devotional I've read February 5, 2010

By Mom13

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I'm not a fan of devotional books,because I would rather just read the Bible. Most devotionals are "light reading". I know they meet a need for a lot of people, don't get me wrong. But this book is "deep". It really challenges me to examine myself in light of the truth of God's word. John Piper has way of really whetting your appetite to dig deeper. The title really fits the content. When you taste a little "meat" from God's Word, you really want more. You begin to see the greatness of our God. This book has the effect of causing me to savour and meditate on the truths about God that are presented in each day's reading.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Glorified and Satisfied July 9, 2006

By Robert W. Kellemen

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John Piper understands that God designed us in His image as relational beings who thirst, long, desire, and hunger with passion. Piper also understands that "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him" (learned well from the writings of Jonathan Edwards). It is this combination of truths that motivate Piper whenever he speaks and writes. "Taste and See" is no exception. As his subtitle suggests, Piper focuses upon helping his readers to move toward "Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life." In other words, don't only know God ratonally (which is vital), don't only obey God volitionally (which is our duty), but pursue Him passionately.

By the way, another reviewer seems to confuse our God-given emotionality with our God-given relationality. Emotions are our God-given capacity to respond to our longings, thoughts, and actions. Affections are our God-given capacity to be motivated by and pursue what our soul craves. Put another way, "We pursue what we perceive to be most pleasing" (from "Soul Physicians" by way of Church history and biblical exegesis). Piper is simply teaching us who we are and how we relate. We can no more cease to follow our affections than the deer can seek to drink from the waterbrook.

Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of "Soul Physicians," "Biblical Psychology," "Spiritual Friends," "Martin Luther's Pastoral Counseling, and "Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Focusing In February 27, 2006

By Trevor Akin

Format:Paperback

This book helps to get one's mind focused on biblically sound ideas of God in the morning or whenever one may choose to read it. I am dreading reaching the end of this book, so great are the bits of truth it contains.