Multnomah Books, 2012, 309 pgs.
Summary: A warm thoughtful meditation on what delights God. Piper carefully exegetes dozens of verses to prove God delights in being a triune, speaking, creating, holy, saving, just, sustaining, prayer answering, King. The hoped for reader’s response to God’s delight is to worship him.
Benefits/ Detriments: A delight. Accessible. Includes a careful and scholarly response to those who reject God’s sovereignty in creation and salvation in the foot notes. Twice Piper’s habit of absolutizing a single metaphor (prayer is “a wartime walkie-talkie and not a domestic intercom” [214] and “grace is power, not just pardon” [233]) could lead to confusion if applied consistently. Coming soon to Andover’s bookshelf.