This is the Bayama podcast of Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we're

joined by special guest John Whitaker. He holds degrees in theology and ministry from

Boise Bible College and Cincinnati Bible Seminary, plus a doctorate in preaching from Gordon

Conwell Theological Seminary. He served as a professor of preaching in the New Testament

for 19 years, spent 11 years planting and pasturing a church in his taught and preached

at various places around the world. He's been teaching people to follow Jesus by learning

to hear what the Bible says and his latest endeavors are more accessible to people than ever.

He and his wife Louise have been married for more than 30 years.

Yeah, welcome John. Thanks for joining us today.

Yeah, thanks for having me on the show guys. I appreciate it.

Gordon Conwell, how was that? Was that like?

Oh, you know, it was a unique program because it was a doctor of ministry. So I traveled

back two weeks at a time and would spend two weeks on campus and Boston and had in Robinson.

Since it was a doctorate in preaching, had in Robinson was my lead professor, but he

would bring people in from all around the country. It was actually just a really, really

enjoyable, pleasant, encouraging experience. One, getting to know, had in Robinson was great.

He's just a great guy. It's probably being super well known, at least from a previous generation,

to really good guys. So that was great. But actually in the midst of a busy school year

where I'd be teaching, you know, a lot of classes and then the ghost spent two weeks

and actually going to just kind of hang out and go to class, actually was very invigorating

and restful. So it was great.

Sure. Dr. Robinson did a lot of, obviously, the texts that we used for preaching in Bible

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