The Return

Review: The Satisfied Soul: Showing the Supremacy of God in All of Life John Piper Multnomah 2017 Seems like there’s been several of the more mature leaders of the Christian faith who have assembled some of their work into volumes like this one.   Not a bad thing.   For those who don’t know them already it’s a great introduction to what the author has spent his life teaching.   For those that are acquainted, these works are like paging through a scrapbook. Either way, they continue to speak.  This book draws together a wide range of meditations or teaching points.   I have sampled several throughout the book and find them to be more instruction than meditation.   The meditation happens after the reader finishes the reading.   A quick look at the table of contents gives the reader a sense of the variety of areas Piper has included.   There’s also a subject, a scripture, and a person index included for the reader’s...

Review: The Ragamuffin Gospel Brennan Manning Multnomah Books 2015 This is a 25 th anniversary issue of this Brennan Manning book.   John Blase mentions in his preface to this edition that the book has already sold nearly a million copies over its 25 year run. (ix)   What I found interesting is that with just a few exceptions this book is as current now as it was when it was written.      This is my first time reading this book.   I had read a couple Manning’s other works and decided it was time to read this one as well.   I was not disappointed in the least with it and found it to be encouraging.   It reinforced a line from one of his other books that had stuck with me for years now---God loves you and there’s nothing you do about it.   That’s probably a paraphrase but close and I cannot remember which book it’s from.   Sorry. There’s not a lot that hasn’t already been said about this book already since its 25 yea...