Free Audiobook - "Think" by John Piper

This month's free audio-book download on christianaudio.com is John Piper's Think. A video trailer for the book is shown below.



Did I mention that it is FREE! So go ahead and get it!

Let Not the Fire Go Out

"...thinking is dangerous and indispensable.  Without a profound work of grace in the heart, knowledge - the fruit of thinking - puffs. up.  But with that grace, thinking opens the door of humble knowledge.  And that knowledge is the fuel of the fire of love for God and man.  If we turn away from serious thinking in our pursuit of God, that fire will eventually go out."


   - John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God, pages 164-165.

The Climatic Demonstration

"Divine wisdom reached its climatic demonstration in the cross of Christ - because the cross was a way of salvation that humbles man and exalts the grace of God.  When divine wisdom is revealed to humans in the death of Christ, its effect is to save us and humble us by doing for us what we could not do for ourselves."

   - John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God, pages 146-147.

Two Kinds of Wisdom Distinguished

“We may say that a fundamental difference between divine wisdom and human wisdom is that God’s wisdom exalts what the cross stands for and human wisdom is offended by what the cross stands for...

...what offends human wisdom about the cross is that it humbles man and exalts the unearnable grace of God. I makes humans look dependent and helpless - like little children - and makes God look all-sufficient and all-providing and absolutely free in giving salvation to sinners.”

   - John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God, pages 146-147.

  

Glorying in the Facts of the Gospel

“The nature of saving faith demands more than facts as a ground — not less, but more. . . . [S]aving faith is not mere receiving of facts. It is the receiving of Christ as the one who died for us and rose again, and is infinitely glorious, and wondrously beautiful, and supremely valuable. Therefore, the ground of such faith must be the spiritual sight of such glory and beauty and value.”

- John Piper, Think: The life of the Mind and the Love of God (Wheaton, Ill.; Crossway, 2010), 73

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Piper on Think

I am currently reading Pastor John Piper's new book Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God.  Here's a video of Piper explaining what the book is about.