Well, listeners to this podcast and readers of the Desiring God blog will have probably

heard something about, look at the book.

Pastor John, can you explain what look at the book is, how it works and what you're working

on?

I love to talk about it because I'm having a great time working on it.

We've been working on it for over a year, but we finally got the technology to the

point where we can actually produce the kinds of things that we are going to put on the

internet to probably starting sometime in the fall, as we rolled it out with our annual

conference.

Look at the book is rooted in my sense of calling to take people from the banquet to the

kitchen.

I spent the last 30, 40 years of my life mainly serving meals to people in sermons, meaning

I've spent hours in the kitchen cooking and then I set the table in a manuscript and

I stand in the pulpit and I feed the people a finished meal and I believe in that with

all my heart.

I think that's what preaching is, but what will happen when I'm gone if people haven't

learned to make meals for themselves?

There will always be preachers, praise God, amen, but as I come to the end of my life,

I'm thinking, you know, I would like in addition to serving meals, take people into the

kitchen and show them how I cook, how I get food, how I get meaning from biblical text.

People ask me all the time, how did you see that or where did you get that or how do you

study or how do you prepare a sermon or how do you read the Bible and people are hungry

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