THE SATISFIED SOUL:
Showing the Supremacy of God in All of Life
By John Piper
Multnomah. 395 pages. £16.99
ISBN 978 1 601 429 995
How can Christians drink orange juice differently from non-Christians? What can we learn from the fathers of John Paton, C.S. Lewis and Robert Louis Stevenson? Should Christians watch TV? What does submission and headship look like in the home?
If you’re struggling to work out what connects these four questions, the answer is that they are all addressed by John Piper in his latest book The Satisfied Soul. I say ‘book’ but this is rather a compilation of 120 short meditations which cover a wide range of topics. It’s the third volume in his series, following on from A Godward Life and Taste and See.
Whole Christ for the whole person
This is classic John Piper. Each meditation is Scripture-soaked, God-centred, Christ-exalting, and insightfully applied to many different areas. This indeed is the whole Christ for the whole person. I’d heartily recommend this book, even if I don’t agree with all his conclusions. It could be just the thing to kick-start a stale devotional life, or for a holiday read with friends or family, to make mealtime discussions more intentional. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on loving Jesus, on God carrying our loads, fighting lust (using the ANTHEM strategy) and the place of confronting in marriage. There’s much gold here. Tolle, lege.
