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An All-Consuming Passion for Jesus

Appeals to the Rising Generation

John Piper

An All-Consuming Passion for Jesus

Appeals to the Rising Generation

John Piper

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction

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Passion for the Supremacy of God

31

Boasting Only in the Cross

51

Getting to the Bottom of Your Joy

73

Joy as the Power to Suffer in the Path of

Love for the Sake of Liberation

INTRODUCTION

Friday morning, January 11, 2013 dawned frigid and dark in Minneapolis. John Piper finished his devotions, slid on his boots, bundled in his coat, and stepped outside to the remnants of an overnight ice storm to walk 600 slippery steps from his Minneapolis home to the door of Bethlehem Baptist Church for the weekly prayer gathering. The gatherings were typically small, sometimes only three or four attended, but two or three is enough of an audience to pray for the congregation's needs and the gospel's advance.

Just one week earlier, Piper took a different walk. Under the warm spotlight of Atlanta's Georgia Dome for Passion 2013, Piper climbed the stairs and walked on stage to plead with 60,000 college students to embrace the beauty of Christ as they face a future of inevitable suffering and persecution in various forms. His bold voice echoed through the dome, reiterating the point of the conference. "This is what Passion is about," he said, "the glorification of the infinite worth of Jesus so that he remains our joy when everything around our soul gives way" (Heb. 10:34). It was

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