Crossway Review: Treasuring God In Our Traditions
When I unwrapped this month’s Crossway book for review on this blog, I was very interested and excited to begin the read. Treasuring God In Our Traditions, by Noel Piper, is a short and simple look at the traditions in our lives—what they are, and why they’re important.
In each of the ten chapters of this book, Mrs. Piper explores common questions about tradition. What is a tradition? What makes them important? How do they teach? The chapters are supplemented with stories, poems (written by John Piper), an occasional recipe, and scripture verses.
I’ve never spent too much time thinking about tradition, but reading this book sparked a new interest and a desire for something more. Mrs. Piper approaches tradition in a new way. It isn’t mindless habit or rote repition; rather, tradition is “laying up God’s words in our own hearts, and passing his words to the next generation.”
In this sense, Mrs. Piper writes mainly to parents, so much of the book wasn’t directly applicable to my life as a young adult—at least, not yet. But maybe someday. And it’s probably because of the ‘someday’ that I enjoyed the read.
One of my favorite parts of Treasuring God In Our Traditions was actually rather shallow: the design, inside and out, is fabulous! It’s simple, beautiful, and unique. Each page left me eager to see the next.
In the end, Treasuring God In Our Traditions is an easy read that may very well be worth your time. Parents, you’re bound to come away with a broader understanding of tradition and more of a desire to implement it. For young people like me…well, don’t be afraid to be inspired for the future!
*screams*
I wanted to keep up with this blog, and having waltzed over here to check your progress as regards to the blogosphere, found I had a heck of a lot of catching up to do! *groans* Having talked with you so much on the chatzy I think you’re entitled to at least a few comments from me! Does WordPress host a mailing list or anything like the regular HSB deal did?
*wicked grin* How is Jarrett? How is JTN? How is –muahaha– Cael? *wonders how she could become on a first-name basis with Bethy’s characters on such short notice and guesses proposals tend to do things like that*
BTW, is Ness part of your debate group? Cuz I saw a peekchur that had a girl who looked like her in there…it looks really fun! No, really! Debating looks FUN! *wild grin*
God bless,
~PIP~
Oh, I love the Pipers! I love the Pipers! I love the Pipers! I love John Piper’s website, blog, articles, videos, conferences, sermons, and, most of all, the books! He is so gospel-centered and always reminding me to treasure Christ more than anything else in all the world because Christ deserves all of the love, glory, honor, praise, and magnification we could ever give Him and so much more!
I second that. The Pipers seriously rock. My family are pretty mad about them. Never seen this book though.
Gah. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to seeing this blog. It’s so dark and gloomy, it feels like a graveyard.
*glares at it*
I mean, sure you might like gloom and angst, and sure it might switch the attention from the beautiful blog to your beautiful writing, but… I don’t know. It’s just so utterly fashionably, stylishly boring. And un-you. Impersonal. The template you were working on for HSB before you left us was stylishly gloomy too, but it was also gorgeous and unique and showed some personality, and actually said something. WordPress is like… blah.
*sighs and cuts short the growing rant*
Having said that, though, I get that HSB is… well, whatever you and everyone else seems to have against it, which I actually don’t seem to have grasped yet. Untechy or something. *is confuzzled* But I get that you don’t like it, anyhow. And what I actually meant to say, before I went into rant mode, was that I’ve resolved to quit bugging you about it.
Because I’ll always adore your blog and your writing, whatever boring format it chooses to wear. That’s what I actually meant to say.
Oh! Quite randomly, you’ll never believe the ultimate awesomeness of what happened to me last night. Someone has translated one of my stories into Russian! We were randomly googling our names just for fun and I googled my pen name, and I found this random foreign site that mentioned my name and the title of one of my stories. So I translated it with the google translator and it was actually my story, and someone had begun translating it! Can you believe how ultimately cool that is? I just had to tell you that, because all my RL friends are all like: “Oh… um… that’s great. Russian… great. *weird stare*”
I don’t care if fanfiction never has a hope of being published; that is one of the coolest things ever. I would write a whole book for that sort of honour.
*sighs happily*
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