THE DAWNING OF INDESTRUCTIBLE JOY
Daily readings for Advent
By John Piper
IVP. 94 pages. £4.99
ISBN 978 1 783 591 787
This short offering from John Piper consists of 25 daily readings, through December to Christmas day, plus a Christmas sermon on Luke 2.11-14.
It is meant to turn the reader’s attention away from the materialism of contemporary secular Christmas to focus on the profound fact and implications of the coming of God in Christ which provides rescue and indestructible joy for sinners like us. In these pages you will find many of Piper’s hallmark themes concerning God’s sovereignty and sufficiency and the glory of the cross. God is our well of salvation from which we may drink deeply to the satisfying of our souls. The book is full of boundless grace and has an evangelistic edge. ‘Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.’
