NEW JOHN PIPER BOOK

Pastor and author John Piper has just completed work on his next book, What Jesus Demands from the World. The book focuses on the commands of Jesus. I eagerly look forward to it's publication.

In a letter from his writing sabbatical, Piper describes the process he went through in writing the book.

I read the four Gospels and copied out all the commands plus many implied commands (like blessed are the merciful implies be merciful). There were over five hundred. Then after many efforts at distilling them, I grouped them into about thirty categories. Then I began to write chapters on those categories. Some of the chapters were long and I divided them. That resulted in a book of fifty modest chapters.

You can read the entire letter here.