I don't really want it but it's called in my name, will you come and keep me, I can take away pain, come a little closer, you got everything you gain, but I got too much jealousy, I'm not even going to sing, I've been here too long.

That's a track fallen off Tripley's album The Good Life, Three Years Old, and still a personal favorite, an amazing album.

It's Friday and we're back one last time with hip-hop artists and author Tripley.

You are a writer and so of course you're a reader as well, so I want to ask you outside of the pages of Scripture of course.

Who are the most influential theologians or the most influential books by theologians that have shaped your life and shaped your ministry?

That's a really hard question for me because I love reading and really books have been huge in my life.

That's part of why I wanted to write, just like with music, music impacted me, I wanted to do music to impact people in the same thing with books.

But a couple I think I could point out knowing God by J.I. Packer.

That was a book that was recommended to me when I was about 15 and 16 years old and I was passionate about Jesus.

But I hadn't read any really good books yet and I didn't know how to even find good books.

I was just reading whatever and a guy who's disciplining me at the time recommended that to me.

And let me tell you, it changed my life because I had never read a book with such a big view of God.

You know, I knew God was big and he was good.

But when I read that book, just the depth of doctrine and theology rooted in Scripture and all with kind of the context of a relational knowledge of God, it really changed my life.

Another book that was really helpful for me, there are so many Piper books that have been deeply helpful for me.

Probably my favorite is when I don't desire God.

Because for me, it came at a crucial time when I was really just trying to think, in my day to day, how do I really fight for joy in God?

And you know, I want to desire God to understand that's a part of God sanctifying me.

But how do I do it? And that book was just so good and helpful for me and giving me a good kind of worldview for that.

So that book was huge.

Arnold Dalmore's biography of Spurgeon, just called Spurgeon, was huge for me because I love Spurgeon.

I've read a lot of this stuff and have been really encouraged by it.

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