Return Of The Book Reveiw

I have just finished an absolutely outstanding book. "Suffering and the Sovereignty of God" by John Piper and Justin Taylor. Actually, there are quite a few authors in this book, John Piper writes a couple of sections and he and Justin Taylor edited and compiled the work.

The book is kinda heavy, certainly one that I will have to read again someday, to see what else I can get out of it. It's informative, deep, moving, thoughtful, dogmatic, and compassionate, all rolled into one. (And I don't mean dogmatic in a bad way, I understand that it can be a bad thing, but it can also be appropriate at times.)

One of the great things of this book is that you are not only learning what the Bible says about suffering from great Bible teachers, you are, but you are also learning about the Bible's teachings about suffering as it is lived out in the lives of real people.

I don't know all of the contributors to this work, but they include, Stephen F. Saint, whose father, a missionary, was killed on the mission field trying to reach a tribe, known to be violent to outsiders, with the Gospel, and how, through his death, and the deaths of the men with him, those people were ultimately reached, and many of them did embrace Christ. Also, you get to see what he learned, many years later, through the death of his own daughter. A truly remarkable chapter.

Also included is Joni Eareckson Tada, who is generally fairly well known in Christian circles, as she has long tried to use her disability for the Glory of God. She tells how, in the early days after the diving accident where she broke her neck, God brought her through that dark time, and what he has done with her life since then.

This is a really remarkable book, and I would highly recommend it.