Welcome back to the podcast on the Swins Day. As many of you know, I don't only produce

this podcast, I also write books. And back in 2011, I was honored to write my very first

book called Lit on the topic of book reading. One of my passions in answering the questions,

why do we read books anyways? And how can we read them better, things like that?

And in my research stage for the book, I set aside one full day for one purpose. To ransack

the vast John Piper archive of online content to collect everything that he's ever said

on the topic of reading. And I found quite a lot actually, including one amazing quote

from Pastor John back in 1981. And I want to share with you that quote today, quote,

what I've learned from about 20 years of serious reading is this, I per said, is that

sentences change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth,

some powerful challenge, some resolution to a longstanding dilemma. And these usually

come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read. But if

the 1% of each book or article I do remember is life changing insight, then I don't begrudge

the 99%. That's a, that's an amazing find. Obviously. And that went in my 2011 book. The

quote itself was buried in a now 40 year old manuscript. I mean, really buried the moment

I found it. I remember running an online search and couldn't find any reference to this

quote on any websites or blogs or in any published books or any social media. I mean,

there was no audio recording of the message either. It was, it was buried. All we had

was the written manuscript to desire and God.org. It was either not recorded or the message

recording got lost to time. So we thought until very recently, well, it was recorded.

And we just found the audio recording from 1981. It's now online for the first time

ever at desiringGod.org. And I get the honor today of unveiling that recording to you on

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