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Today's episode of Help Me Teach the Bible was recorded in 2016.

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The hardest work for a teacher is good questions.

And I think it's the key to teaching.

Good questions is the key to understanding, and most teachers ask bad questions. Thank you. It's our aim during this hour. You're hearing so many good messages on First Peter,

and it's our aim during this hour to talk to you as a teacher, to give you some tools for as you go back to be able to prepare to teach

first peter yourself and so like how about this coach we have who's going to help us teach the

bible how about that my guest today is John Piper. John Piper is the founder and teacher of

desiring God.org. How many teachers are like me and when you get stuck on a passage, you go to

desiring got org to see what John Piper says. Yeah. He's currently the chancellor of Bethlehem

College and Seminary. So for 30 years, he served as senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church

in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So, John, thank you for giving this time to all of us who are

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