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100	1		_aPiper, John, _d1946- _e1
260			_aSisters, Oregon : _bMultnomah Publishers, _c(c)2005.
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245	1	0	_aTaste and see : _b140 meditations / _cJohn Piper. _hPR
300			_a429 pages ; _c22 cm
504			_a4.es.
505	0	0	_a1. The exuberant omnipotence of God -- _treasserting God's rightful place in all of life -- _t2. Lesson from a lost Mastercard -- _t"Cast all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you" -- _t3. God is love, God is God -- _tBalancing complexity and simplicity in the Bible -- _t4. The great work of God: Rain -- _tA Thanksgiving meditation on Job 5:8-10 -- _t5. "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets" -- _tPondering the illusions created by a lazy heart -- _t6. Early morning at the manse -- _tHow a father fights for his faith and his family -- _t7. Ten lessons I learned from my father -- _thonoring my father for his faith and his family -- _t8. Lessons on retirement from Charles Simeon and Raymond Lull -- _t"He how loves not, lives not; he who lives by the life cannot die" -- _t9. Can Christians be held hostage by the sins of the beloved? -- _tWHen is mercy mercy and when does it mourn? -- _t10. When "want to" and "ought to" don't match -- _tliving between hypocrisy and license -- _t11. The only ultimate love -- _tdo people go to the Grand Canyon to enhance their self-esteem? -- _t12. "No evil will befall you," really? -- _tbeware of Satan's use of Psalms -- _t13. Will your family dig its own grave? -- _tmeditation on martyrdom and families -- _t14. Righteous Job and the rock star -- _tpondering power and popular influences on youth -- _t15. Her body, her self, and her God -- _tpondeirng diaries from yesterday, today, and tomorrow -- _t16. A letter to my wife saying yes to adoption -- _tMonday, November 6, 1995, 11:12 p.m. -- _t17. Sky rider, eternal home, and everlasting arms -- _tmeditation on the uniqueness of God in majestic helpfulness -- _t18. How to pray for the soul (yours or another's) -- _tpraying in sync with the way God works -- _t19. Beware of common sense! -- _t"Command what you wish, and give what you command" -- _t20 Clyde Kilby's resolutions for mental health -- _tawakening amazement at the strange glory of ordinary things.
505	0	0	_a21. The missing note of sovereign joy -- _ta lesson on love from Augustine -- _t22. How to be filled with the Holy Spirit -- _thow do you drink the wine of God? -- _t23. What is communion with God? Wisdom from John Owen -- _tthoughts on Hebrews 10:22 -- _t24. What if our dying is discipline? -- _tmeditation on I Corinthians 11:29-32 -- _t25. "The greatest thing in the world is to be saved" -- _tthinking about the greatness of what we are saved for -- _t26. The agonizing problem of the assurance of salvation -- _twhere to look when looking in is fearful -- _t27. Are you a descendant of King David? -- _tmeditation on Psalm 18:50 and Isaiah 55:3 -- _t28. There is no salvation outside Israel -- _tdid the Old Testament teach that Gentiles could be true Jews? -- _t29. Justified, but not forgiven? -- _tpondering the difference between judicial wrath and fatherly displeasure -- _t30. Imperfections: the mark of all the perfected -- _tmeditation on Hebrews 10:14 -- _t31. Ten reasons to love the truth -- _tthe perils of vulgar relativism -- _t32. Should Christian colleges indoctrinate? -- _tthe other alternative to the adolescent academia -- _t33. Luther, Bunyan, Bible, and pain -- _tmeditation on Psalm 119:71 -- _t34. Does God really want you to be encouraged? -- _ton seizing the gift of hope -- _t35. They gave it their best shot in vain -- _tif they don't knock you down, they can't let you up -- _t36. Discernment by desire -- _tfinding God's will by the fragrance of the Holy -- _t37. You are about to change your job -- _tthinking about how God shakes us loose and leads in a new way -- _t38. What is a "root of bitterness"? -- _tthe price of presumption -- _t39. When God's will is that His will not be done -- _tmeditation on I Samuel 2:22-25 -- _t40. The root of mental health: being healed by knowing God -- _ton not helping people be happy on their way to hell.
505	0	0	_a41. The simultaneous sound of laughter and weeping -- _tliving in the real world of constant pain and pleasure (somewhere) -- _t42. Thank God for diaries, journals, and biographies! -- _tmeditation on the life of David Brainerd -- _t43. Are we not content just to sow -- _tpondering ordinary and extraordinary seasons of ministry -- _t44. News! News! News! -- _tgetting the gospel and theology in right order -- _t45. The dangers of computer unreality -- _tfive resolutions -- _t46. Darwinism on my front porch -- _tare your a tick-tock in the timeline of evolution? -- _t47. Does God have civil rights? -- _turban injustice, the Fourteenth Amendment, and God -- _t48. Can joy increase forever? -- _tmeditation on Ephesians 2:7 -- _t49. Prison profanity: Where does it come from? -- _tmeditation on Ephesians 4:29 and 5:4 -- _t50. How can Elsie run? -- _thow to run and box when you are over eighty -- _t51. The unashamed God -- _tmeditation on Hebrews 11:16 -- _t52. God does not repent like a man -- _tmeditation on I Samuel 15:11, 29 -- _t53. Devil prayers and divine pleasuers -- _tmeditation on being real -- _t54. A word of poetry -- _tpondering the implication of rock-solid reality for creative art -- _t55. Prayerfully ransack the Bible -- _tpondering the both-and of prayer and study -- _t56. How can eternal life be a free gift and yet "according to works"? -- _tmeditation on Romans 2:6-8 -- _t57. Jesus and the children -- _tpondering children as pride detectors -- _t58. Bodies, breakfast, and the marriage bed -- _tmeditation on daily worship -- _t59. The pistol star and the power of God -- _tmeditation on science, sight, and divine splendor -- _t60. If you believe, you will see the glory of God -- _tthoughts on whether seeing grounds faith or faith grounds seeing.
505	0	0	_a61. How does the Spirit produce love? -- _tand why He does it this way -- _t62. Can the regenerate be erased from the Book of Life? -- _tmeditation on Revelation 3:5 -- _t63. How dangerous is our faith? -- _tless and more dangerous than you think -- _t64. Facts, seen and unseen -- _twhat does it mean to walk by faith and not by sight? -- _t65. Please, feed me more! -- _tthe cry of dying faith -- _t66. Cherishing truth for the sake of love -- _tobscuring truth to obtain triumph -- _t67. Augustine on what it means to love God -- _tthoughts on love as delighting, not just acting and willing -- _t68. "Lord of the dead" -- _tfacing death when God is your God and Jesus is your Lord -- _t69. How does one sun make you guilty of the whole law? -- _tdegrees of guilt before God -- _t70. One danger of denying God's foreknowledge of human choices -- _tundermining the New Covenant -- _t71. The grace of being born to you -- _ta tribute to the supremacy of grace in the life of Ruth Piper -- _t72. How dispensable is gender? -- _tpreserving God's precious and satisfying patterns of life -- _t73. Making a difference by fire -- _t"what are you doing here?" I hare been very zealous for the Lord of Hosts" -- _t74. When to separate and when not to -- _ta letter to an earnest inquirer -- _t75. Some questions to ask when considering a job -- _tpondering vocation as service to Christ -- _t76. Sweet sovereignty and the assurance of salvation -- _twhat can be sweeter than to be "kept by the power of God"? -- _t77. More, more, more -- _tseventeen aspects of holy dissatisfaction -- _t78. On lending to God -- _tmeditation on Proverbs 19:17 -- _t79. "The terror that is named the flight of time" -- _t"In the Lord your labor is not in vain" -- _t80. Foundations for thinking about race and interracial marriage -- _tpondering the primacy of being created in the image of God.
505	0	0	_a81. Controversy: Essential and deadly -- _tcommuning with God in the doctrines for which we contend -- _t82. "Finally, brethren, pray for us" -- _ta plea for pastors -- _t83. Being loved and being hated -- _tthinking about the dark side of missions -- _t84. Embracing a God-centered God with God-centered love -- _ta letter to one longing to love the God of Romans 9 -- _t85. Between resignation and triumphalism -- _tfinding the way between presumption and paralysis -- _t86. How to be strong in the Lord -- _tpondering the power of joy in the Lord -- _t87. "For your sake He became poor" -- _ttaking the poverty of Jesus to heart -- _t88. From shadow to substance for the sake of Christ -- _tpondering the shift from Old Testament to New -- _t89. The sovereignty of God: A precious and practical doctrine -- _tsavoring the sovereignty of God in the life of George Mueller -- _t90. How is the wrath of God being revealed now? -- _tmeditation on Romans 1:18 -- _t91. The wrath of God on believers and unbelievers now -- _twhat wrath becomes in the life of believers -- _t92. What does the slaughter of the Amorites mean? -- _twhen to leae judgment to God -- _t93. A life well-lived is like writing a good poem -- _tmeditation on I Corinthians 15:10 and the process of writing and living -- _t94. Martin Luther's rules for how to become a theologian -- _tprayer, meditation, and suffering -- _tthe path to understanding -- _t95. Is the Holy Spirit phase three of God's Word? -- _tpreserving the finality of phase two -- _t96. Who governs thought and tongue? -- _tmeditation on Proverbs 16:1 -- _t97. Answers to prayer in the midst of nonanswers -- _tmeditation on the detours of God -- _t98. Who was Jesus' grandfather? -- _thow to think about apparent contradictions in the Bible -- _t99. "They love all men" -- _tthoughts on how to make a name for Christ -- _t100. Pluralism: We have been here before -- _tmeditation on why we are here.
505	0	0	_a101. "God has allotted to each a measure of faith" -- _tmeditation on Romans 12:3 -- _t102. Shall we goof off that grace may abound? -- _twhy does the gift of faith not produce passivity? -- _t103. Another paradox of prayer: "vain repetitions" versus "continual coming" -- _tpondering Matthew 6:7, Luke 11:8, and Luke 18:5 -- _t104. Does unconditionality conceal the real remedy? -- _twisdom from anther century -- _t105. Where does Christian living come from? -- _trefections on the power of right knowing -- _t106. Can you be worthy of God? -- _tfinding what fits with the faithfulness of God -- _t107. If I have found favor, let me, O God, find favor -- _tmeditation on knowing God in Exodus 33:13 -- _t108. Are Christians fully satisfied? -- _tpondering (again) the path between paralysis and triumphalism -- _t109. Going beyond the limits of unlimited atonement -- _tChrist died for all, but especially for His bride -- _t110. When adulteresses are men -- _tspillover of a sermon on abortion -- _t111. A joyful meeting with -- _tthe camaraderie of a common vision of suffering -- _t112. When Jesus will not answer a question -- _thow not to be a pig or a dog -- _t113. In quest of rest -- _tpondering the God-centered purpose of sleep -- _t114. Will we love Christ at the end of the year? -- _tmeditation on I Corinthians 16:22 -- _t115. "Take heed how you hear!" -- _tten practical preparations for hearing the Word of God on Sunday morning -- _t116. "Why do you call me good? God alone is good" -- _twhat th rich ruler needed to learn about the goodness of God -- _t117. You almost can't teach an old dog new tricks -- _tthoughts on the possibilities of change -- _t118. Seneca, C.S. Lewis, and a sale -- _thow does death steal our days? -- _t119. Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come -- _thow shall happiness not be thin? -- _t120. A surprise endorsement for doctrine -- _tteach us what the Bible says.
505	0	0	_a121. A Jewish response to the Passion of Christ -- _tan open letter to Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, Temple Israel -- _t122. Use means, but don't trust in means; trust in God -- _ta lesson from George Mueller's life and teaching -- _t123. How to speak about God when He hurts us -- _televen truths from the Book of Lamentations -- _t124. What did Christ purchase for your children with His blood? -- _tthe blessings and limits of Christian ancestry -- _t125. How the Archbishop got it wrong -- _thumane confidence versus destructive doubt -- _t126. Sin, civil rights, and missions -- _tthe amazing role of sober truth -- _t127. "Abhor what is evil" -- _tthe part about mercy I left out of the sermon -- _t128. God works wonders -- _tin steady-state obedience and in total disobedience -- _t129. Surrendering and demanding rights: two kinds of love -- _tthoughts on mercy and justice in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 -- _t130. Should only unanimous decisions guide the church? -- _tletter to a friend on how leadership works -- _t131. Tsunami and repentance -- _tthe point of all pleasure and pain -- _t132. "Fact! Faith! Feeling!" -- _ttesting a common slogan -- _t133. If Christ predicted war, may Christians pray for peace? -- _tdistinguishing God's work and ours -- _t134. The transforming power of feeling mercy -- _tusing imagination and revelation to know our condition -- _t135. The greatest event in history -- _ttwo paradoxes in the death of Christ -- _t136. A call for Christian risk -- _thow the removal of eternal risk creates the call for temporal risk -- _t137. Do Jews have a divine right in the Promised Land? -- _thow Christians should think about the Jewish-Palestinian conflict -- _t138. What is the Christian gospel? -- _tExploring what makes the "Good News" good news -- _t139. A prayer for our church -- _tasking God to build a certain kind of man and woman -- _t140. The Lord alone will be exalted -- _tmaking war on pride.
520	0		_aThis update to the second volume of Piper's popular devotional, A Godward Life, features 20 new articles, which address controversies such as partial-birth abortion and gay marriage. With three indexes and 120 brief biblically based essays, it also provides pastors and lay leaders with illustrations as sound as Scripture and as current as tomorrow's Internet news.
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