Hi, my name is Corey. I'm a pastor in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. You are listening to the Ask

Pastor John podcast with John Piper.

Corey is a friend of ours and a precious ministry partner of nearly 30 years now.

I want you to meet him in a moment and hear a story.

It's amazing.

But first our question today for episode number 2001.

And it's a book question from me, Pastor John.

We like to talk books on this podcast.

In past episodes, we've looked at seven ways books have changed your life.

That testimony was in APJ 707.

And then we looked at how 1% of book insights

make reading the other 99% of the book worth it. That was an APJ 1910,

classic point that you've made over the years and more recently we looked at 10 of your

favorite authors who write to edify your soul, Pastor John, and that was an

APJ 1972. Now, today, speaking of your library, I recently paged through your copy of Mortimer Adler's Classic Book,

How to Read a Book. And I did so while working on my APJ book about this podcast, which comes out in February.

We'll talk about that more later.

But as I was writing the introduction to that book, I found it instructive to see what

sentences that you underlined in Adler's book, what sections you marked up and how you jotted down

little notes in the front and the back of the book. I noticed that you made something of your

own index of your discoveries.

Can you walk us through your book marking strategy?

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