{"id":34547,"date":"2021-05-07T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=34547"},"modified":"2021-05-23T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T13:57:36","slug":"book-review-providence-by-john-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=34547","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Providence, by John Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper. <em>Providence. <\/em>Crossway, 2021. 711 pages.<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago, I sat on a field outside Memphis, Tennessee with 40,000 other college students listening to John Piper preach for the first time. He was there as part of One Day 2000, a large gathering organized by Passion. He preached a message on Galatians 6:14 called \u201cBoasting Only in the Cross.\u201d Little did I know how God would use that message to embolden a generation of students not to \u201cwaste their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After that windy spring day at Shelby Farm, I began reading everything I could get my hands on from John Piper. Reading Piper\u2019s magnum opus, <em>Providence, <\/em>at this point in my life\u2014as a 40-year old husband of nearly two-decades, raising young children, and pastoring a local church\u2014has been a particular joy. This book not only encapsulates what Piper\u2019s writing and preaching has meant in my own life and ministry, the timing of the book prepares us for future trials on the cusp of a new decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A WELL-TIMED BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year (2020) has been a year of uncertainty. A worldwide pandemic, cultural polarization, a divisive election, racial injustice, hurricanes and wildfires, and economic upheaval are just some of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vision of God in these pages is (to use some hyphenated Piperisms) hope-giving, pride-humbling, and mind-stretching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[1510,1731,484,195],"class_list":["post-34547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-calvinism","tag-john-piper","tag-providence","tag-sovereignty-of-god","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34549,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions\/34549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}