The Art of Meditating on Scripture: Understanding Your Faith, Renewing Your Mind, Knowing Your God by Peter Toon (Very good, 1993, Pbk, 168 pgs, Zondervan)

Cover has light wear; inside like new. ISBN 0310577616

The Art of Meditating on Scripture is a practical guide to Biblical meditation and contemplative prayer, arguing that genuine Christian faith calls believers to maturity in faith, hope, and love through prayerful reflection on Scripture. Toon distinguishes meditation (prayerful considering of God's truth) from contemplation (the loving gaze upon God in Christ), and grounds both in the apostle Paul's letter to the Romans — especially Romans 12:1–2, where he connects the renewal of the mind with justification by faith and the call to holiness.  The book draws on the Jewish practice of meditating on Scripture, the Church Fathers (Augustine, Bernard), the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic contemplative traditions, and Reformed writers like John Owen, to show that meditation is a biblical duty leading to fellowship, communion, and union with the Triune God — not an Eastern or mystical substitute for ordinary prayer.