Preaching and Pastoral Ministry with John Piper

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this wide-ranging interview, recorded live at Christ Covenant Church in conjunction with the Coram Deo Pastors Workshop, Kevin asks John about everything from preaching style, to the influence of his parents, to growing up in the South, to his strengths and weaknesses as a pastor. You’ll hear lots of stories, pastoral wisdom, and personal transparency. This is one episode you won’t want to miss.

Chapters:

0:00 Sponsors

1:42 Introduction

2:35 The Privilege of Preaching

29:53 Humility in Pastoral Ministry

41:38 On Marriage

46:31 Sponsor Break

48:13 Pastoral Communication

53:30 Did You Ever Think of Leaving Ministry?

54:58 Parental Influence

1:01:23 Additional Thoughts

1:13:53 John Piper’s Legacy

Books & Everything:

Ask Pastor John

The Supremacy of God in Preaching

GPTS | Midweeker

Master of Arts in Theological Studies

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're glad that you can be listening to this special live recording episode with John Piper,
0:13.9	and want to mention from Crossway, the book, Ask Pastor John, 750 Bible answers to life's most important questions. Maybe you heard
0:24.2	me mention it before. It really is an excellent resource. Even if you don't read it all the
0:29.1	way through, I am certain that every Christian will find dozens of questions in there that are
0:36.2	interesting to you and will help you as you think about
0:39.7	ethics and disciplines and theology and maybe even some questions that you were afraid to ask.
0:46.5	I'm thankful for our friends at Crossway for sponsoring LBE and check out this Crossway book,
0:52.6	Ask Pastor John.
0:54.8	Desiring God has been a longtime sponsor of LBE.
0:58.7	And recording this episode with John at a preaching workshop weekend,
1:05.7	it would be fitting to mention one of the classic John Piper books,
1:12.7	The Supremacy of God in Preaching.
1:15.1	It's one of the first books I read as a pastor.
1:22.3	I've come back to it often in this short book, John calls pastors and preachers to the unshakable foundation of God-centered Christ exulting proclamation to remind us, and even if you're not a pastor,
1:30.5	it'd be helpful for you to know what the aim of preaching is, to remind all of us of God's
1:36.2	glory at the center of every sermon.
1:42.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin DeYoung,
1:47.7	senior pastor at Christ's Covenant Church, and I'm recording this in the sanctuary of Christ
1:53.4	Covenant Church and our very special guest this morning for this live recording. So as you're listening to this,
2:02.2	wherever you are later in the week or month or years,
2:05.7	if you hear noise in the background,
2:07.3	is because we have a couple hundred people here from Christ's covenant
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