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Summary: A most helpful and profound reading!
Review: Clearly John Piper has more than a surface understanding of the Scriptures. He knows how to keep central ideas central - a rare gift today! Anyone who wants to fast in the Spirit of Christ would undoubtedly be helped by reading this book.
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Summary: A most helpful and profound reading!
Review: Clearly John Piper has more than a surface understanding of the Scriptures. He knows how to keep central ideas central - a rare gift today! Anyone who wants to fast in the Spirit of Christ would undoubtedly be helped by reading this book.
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Summary: piper on fasting
Review: HUNGRY FOR GOD BY JOHN PIPERA BRILLIANT BOOK ON THE SUBJECT OF FASTING COVERING MANY ASPECTS OF FASTING. SHOULD BE IN EVERY CHRISTIANS BOOK CASE. IF I HAVE TO GIVE THIS BOOK A SCORE OUT OF A HUNDRED IT WOULD BE 100 OUT OF 100. EXCELLENT. WELL DONE JOHN PIPER YOU WILL DO FOR ME.......!
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Summary: piper on fasting
Review: HUNGRY FOR GOD BY JOHN PIPER A BRILLIANT BOOK ON THE SUBJECT OF FASTING COVERING MANY ASPECTS OF FASTING. SHOULD BE IN EVERY CHRISTIANS BOOK CASE. IF I HAVE TO GIVE THIS BOOK A SCORE OUT OF A HUNDRED IT WOULD BE 100 OUT OF 100. EXCELLENT. WELL DONE JOHN PIPER YOU WILL DO FOR ME.......!
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Summary: Takes on a topic that we seem to "fast" from...
Review: I appreciate the forthrightness with which Piper divides the Word or Truth in each and every one of his works. "A Hunger for God" is no exception. In this book, which continues to build on Piper's idea that our "duty" as Christians is to delight ourselves in intimacy with our Heavenly Father, he speaks of the power of prayer and fasting-- and how these disciplines which seem to be so tedious, so difficult, so "duty" like actually release some of the greatest freedom and joy we can experience in this life. Read it along with Dallas Willard's "Spirit of the Disciplines" and/ or Richard Foster's "Celebration of Disciplines."
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Summary: Takes on a topic that we seem to "fast" from...
Review: I appreciate the forthrightness with which Piper divides the Word or Truth in each and every one of his works. "A Hunger for God" is no exception. In this book, which continues to build on Piper's idea that our "duty" as Christians is to delight ourselves in intimacy with our Heavenly Father, he speaks of the power of prayer and fasting-- and how these disciplines which seem to be so tedious, so difficult, so "duty" like actually release some of the greatest freedom and joy we can experience in this life. Read it along with Dallas Willard's "Spirit of the Disciplines" and/ or Richard Foster's "Celebration of Disciplines."
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Summary: John Piper understands the human heart
Review: I read this book several months ago, and passed it along to friends immediately. I would gladly pay the price of this book just for one of his insights: how much of what we do is actually done to be seen by men rather than for God's eyes alone. How difficult, how very difficult it is to fast and not tell anyone that we are (or have been or soon will be) fasting. Can you possibly keep yourself from saying, "You know, whenever I fast...." or "At the end of my last 21 day fast...."? Worth thinking about!
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Summary: John Piper understands the human heart
Review: I read this book several months ago, and passed it along to friends immediately. I would gladly pay the price of this book just for one of his insights: how much of what we do is actually done to be seen by men rather than for God's eyes alone. How difficult, how very difficult it is to fast and not tell anyone that we are (or have been or soon will be) fasting. Can you possibly keep yourself from saying, "You know, whenever I fast...." or "At the end of my last 21 day fast...."? Worth thinking about!
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Summary: An incomplete look at fasting
Review: I read this book to learn about fasting because it's something I haven't practiced but thought that maybe I should. Piper is brilliant in stating why he thinks Christians should fast and in suggesting reasons to fast (such as our longing for the return of Christ), but he falls short in the how-to department. The closest he comes is on page 126 where he says we can avoid the physical dangers of fasting by following a few simple guidelines. Then he footnotes to the back where he recommends a couple books that apparently list the guidelines. How complex are those "simple guidelines" that he can't list them himself? Doesn't that seem a no-brainer in a book of this sort, to cover the practical aspects of fasting? Piper's thorough in telling me why I should fast, but how can I practice what he preaches if he neglects such a fundamental component?
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Summary: poignant and encouraging; makes me yearn for God even more!
Review: John Piper does a great job of describing what fasting is, and what it isn't. He is very encouraging in the way he draws us to want more of God - it's a heart issue, so much more than not eating. I heartily recommend this book.
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