Today, we wrap up year number eight on the Aspastor John podcast, which is amazing.

The time has passed by so quickly.

The run of this podcast recently dawned on me when I read an email that we got from a young

man who said that he started listening to the podcast shortly after he was converted,

and now he's entering seminary and still listening.

It's amazing.

I'm going to stop and compute that for a moment, a kind of duration of someone converted

and then entering seminary.

So we've been doing this a while.

Here we are finishing up year number eight.

And as we do, I wanted to give you just a little glance at the numbers of where the

podcast is at right now.

And over those eight years, we have released 1,600 episodes in the podcast starting back

on John Piper's birthday on January 11, 2013, that was episode number one.

And then with all of the special and unnumbered episodes, and then obviously the ones that

are numbered, that's a tally of 1,600 episodes to date.

Incredible.

And on those episodes, when you look at Pastor John's episodes, the ones where he's the

he's the one I'm talking with, no guest episodes.

Pastor John transcripts alone represent 1.7 million words of content.

To put that into perspective, imagine the entire Lord of the Rings series.

Read them once and then read them a second time and then read them a third time.

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