by John Piper I share Jason Meyer’s concern that many pastors “no longer tremble at the task of preaching.” Our contemporary obsession with being casual at all costs—not just in our dress (which is minor) but in our verbal and soul demeanor (which is major)—obscures crucial dimensions of God’s reality. David Wells’s twenty-year-old assessment is still widely true: “The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is