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affordable price. Today we're going to talk about John Piper, which we often do engage with John

Piper's teachings. As I've said thousands of times before, I have a lot of respect for John Piper,

though I disagree with him quite vehemently, obviously, on his sociology. I used to be in agreement

with him. He was one of the people that I read and listened to most regularly back when I was a

Calvinist. I even had him come speak at our youth evangelism conference when I was a director of that.

I found him to be a very humble, gracious man, still do find him to be that way in his life,

and his ministry are above a reproach in that

in that sense but I disagree with him obviously on the conclusions that he has with regard to Calvinism

and I get messages about John Piper pretty regularly because he puts out a regular ask

John Piper question broadcast where he answers a lot of really tough

issues. And I respect him for his willingness to dive in to those tough issues. And 99% of the

time I agree with his answers and appreciate his feedback on many relevant issues within our

culture today. And sometimes I get questions and push back from those

who follow my broadcast who say things like, well, it doesn't seem like John Piper is a Calvinist

in this message, or they'll send him another link saying, did John Piper give up Calvinism?

Is he stopped being a Calvinist now? Because listen to what he says here. And they'll ask the question quite regularly.

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