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God’s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards is unavailable, but you can change that!

Half Edwards and half Piper, this ECPA Gold Medallion winner brings the God-entranced passion of Jonathan Edwards into the twenty-first century. Piper passionately demonstrates the relevance of Edwards’s ideals for the personal and public lives of Christians today through his own book-length introduction to Edwards’s The End for Which God Created the World. In this essay, Edwards proclaims that...

beauty of Christ and his saving work with a heartfelt urgency of love that labors to help people find their satisfaction in him. The most important common ground with unbelievers is not culture but creation, not momentary felt needs but massive real needs.48 Augustine’s famous prayer is all important: “You made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace till they rest in you.”49 If a person realizes that the image of God in man is man’s ineffably profound fitness to image forth Christ’s glory through
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