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Thirty-one subjects are addressed in this book, as unique as “How to Be a Refuge for Your Children,” “How to Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God,” and “Embracing the Pain of Shame.” Some are longer, some shorter, like the real-world conversations they so closely resemble, and each comes from the fertile mind of John Piper and is written in his own inimitable style. Together, the readings will...

Thirteen TO YOU WHO BELIEVE, HE IS PRECIOUS A Meditation on 1 Peter 2:7 “TO YOU … WHO BELIEVE, [CHRIST] IS PRECIOUS” (1 Peter 2:7, RSV). The mark of a child of God is not perfection, but hunger for Christ. If we have tasted the kindness of the Lord, we will desire him (1 Peter 2:2–3). The reason for this is that a child has the nature of its father. We are partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) if we are born of God and have His seed abiding in us (1 John 3:9). We are, as it were, chips off
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