{"id":399,"date":"2012-05-16T08:17:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:47:05","slug":"pleasures-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/05-16-2012\/pleasures-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasures of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to read The Pleasures of God by John Piper on several different occasions. I had read one of his books before, but this one, I just couldn&#8217;t get into.<\/p>\n<p>I have no problem with the topic, and what I read seemed right, all I can figure is that it is not written in a style that I get. Admittedly, I can have trouble with books that are theologically &#8220;deep.&#8221; I&#8217;m guessing that is the reason for my having problems reading this book.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, I can&#8217;t disagree with what I understand of the message of this book. I know God takes pleasure in many things: Jesus, in us, in hearing our prayers and worship, and others. I had looked forward to reading this book when I first got it, and learning about what God finds pleasure in.<\/p>\n<p>I do wish that I could have gotten more from it, perhaps I will at another time. Don&#8217;t let my problems affect your reading it though. It might be right up your alley.<\/p>\n<p>I received this book from Waterbrook Multnomah in exchange for my review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to read The Pleasures of God by John Piper on several different occasions. I had read one of his books before, but this one, I just couldn&#8217;t get into. I have no problem with the topic, and what I read seemed right, all I can figure is that it is not written in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}