Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ is Piper's attempt to put the glory of Christ in front of the reader. In short chapters he treats the person of Christ in His deity and His humanity, the paradoxes of His character, His sovereignty and His meekness, the wrath and the mercy held together at the cross, and the particular beauties of His obedience and His suffering, with the aim of producing delight rather than information.

The book is brief and dense, better read slowly than quickly, and it serves well for devotional reading, for Lent or Advent, and for believers whose knowledge of Christ has outrun their affection for Him. It is also among the more accessible entry points into Piper's writing.