Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the Ra I have on the show today my friend from a distance

Barnabas Piper Barnabas Piper is, he is the son of pastor and author John Piper, and he's actually

written a book about what it was like being raised in the Piper household.

It's called The Pastors Kid, Finding Your Own Faith and Identity.

Barnabas has also written a book on doubt and unbelief called Help My Unbelief, why doubt is not the enemy of faith, and also a more recently

the curious Christian, how discovering wonder enriches every part of your life.

Barnabas has an interesting journey,

and what I love about Barnabas is he's not afraid to just be honest

and talk about failures and successes and highs and lows and things like

doubt and unbelief and what it was like being raised as a pastor's kids so we had

a really wonderful conversation it got it did get it got pretty raw and real

which I knew it would and I just I love Barnabas's perspective on the

Christian faith on evangelicals on life and so we try to cover as much as we could in an hour

so without further ado please welcome to theology and they're off for the first time

the one and only Barnabus Piper.

The first time I heard about Barnas Piper,

I'm sure, was in a sermon from your dad, Barnabas' dad, who most of my audience probably knows John Piper.

But I'll never forget hearing sermon illustrations talking about Barnabas and, you know, and

I was like, that's such a cool name and then a couple years ago we got to hang out in person in Los Angeles and man I just I've really

appreciated as we're just talking about offline you know just just you're for lack of a better terms

you're authentic or honest perspective on the Christian life I think sometimes we have these kind of pie in the sky,

you know, views of Christianity, especially kind of celebrity Christianity.

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