After the first couple of chapters, I didn't think that this book was anything to write home about. I felt like they were too short and lacking in detail. I kept listening, and it got a bit better. The chapters were still short, but I felt like they were a bit more engaging.

He says it in the beginning (or maybe Mark Noll says it in the foreword), so it's no surprise that this book is heavy on biblical exposition, which I liked, although sometimes it was hard for me to follow when I couldn't see the words. But that's a personal thing and shouldn't be held against the book.

He doesn't drop the "e-bomb" (you know, "elect/election," haha) until chapter twelve, and I think that's the only place he uses the word/refers to the concept. I don't consider my theology to be Reformed, so I'm not necessarily on Piper's page with this, but I don't think his position on this discredits his whole point to those who don't agree. In the context of what he was talking about, I think that God knows all of us, not just a "chosen" or "elect" people, so that is how I choose to think of what he was saying, even if he was referring to something different. Or I could be completely off with what I think he's saying and how I'm interpreting it, who knows. :)

Overall, it was a decent book, although I had a lot more love for J.P. Moreland's Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul after I read that, but the two could probably be read for their different strengths and approaches.