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The Truth & Beauty of Jesus Christ

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Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1 …

Part One

February 7, 1982 |by John Piper | Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:17

If the church has no compelling reasons for believing the biblical portrait of Jesus, then we are acting like well-trained animals who can be turned this way and that by arbitrary incentives.

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Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 2 …

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February 14, 1982 |by John Piper | Scripture: John 7:1–18

If you ever meet a man who cares nothing for the praise and approval of men (Mark 12:14), but whose one controlling desire is to glorify God whom he loves with all his heart, believe that man. He is true.

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Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt …

February 21, 1982 |by John Piper | Scripture: Romans 3:19–26

Turn away from all the intellectual, physical, and religious tactics the world uses to evade its guilt, and rest in Jesus.

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Jesus Is Precious Because He Gives Eternal Life …

February 28, 1982 |by John Piper | Scripture: John 10:22–30

There is no true freedom where happiness depends on denying the inevitable; there is only slavery disguised in a thousand forms of fun and busyness.

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Jesus Is Precious Because Through Him We Become Authentic …

March 14, 1982 |by John Piper | Scripture: Romans 14:1–9

We don't have a deep sense of peace and fulfillment when we have successfully deluded everybody about who we really are or what we really feel or think. There is a deep (and I believe God-given) longing to be authentic, not to be hypocrites.

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Jesus Is Precious as the Foundation of the Family …

March 21, 1982 |by John Piper | Scripture: Ephesians 5:21–6:9

Trusting Christ as Savior, surrendering to him as Lord, and orienting all of your family relations on him, transforms the home into a little heaven on earth.

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Jesus Is Precious Because We Yearn for Beauty …

March 28, 1982 |by John Piper | Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:7–11

We crave to be moved by some rare glimpse of greatness. We yearn for a vision of glory.

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