Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com.

This audio is brought to you by Canon Press.

Before we get started, I wanted to make sure you knew that we have a brand new addition to the Christian Heritage Series in Charles Spurgeon's lectures to my students.

Charles Spurgeon was an English Baptist minister famous as the Prince of Preachers.

He was one of the most eloquent men of his day, he started charities, fought against liberalism,

and endured depression with laughter and joy.

Get lectures to my students from Charles Spurgeon today at cannon press.com. John Piper, me in the cool shame election.

October 26, 2020.

Introduction

I will begin by saying that I owe a great deal to John Piper, and one of the central things

I owe to him is respect.

A number of years ago he invited me to speak in Minneapolis for one of their conferences

and did so not caring that I was a pariah as far as the cool table of evangelicalism was concerned.

John MacArthur's friends waited to ditch him until after he became a pariah.

John Piper befriended me when I already was one.

I know up close and personal that John Piper cares about the truth and not about

ecclesiastical politics or personal pride.

This last week John posted this article that explained why he was voting for neither Trump

nor Biden.

He wrote what he wrote because he was convinced by the truth of what he wrote, and because he believes in the authority

of truth, unlike many who will waive his article like a banner because it gives them the maneuvering

room they need, it is possible to engage with him in a respectful way and to answer his arguments.

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