Do you talk like that when you narrate your life?

God did this, and God did this, and God did this, and God did this, and God did this, and God did this, and God did this, and God did this, and God did this.

This is a strange way of talking.

Ordinary Americans don't talk this way. But the preacher talked this way.

The Apostle talked this way.

And we need to talk this way more.

John Piper said something here that should really stick with us, that we don't talk this way.

And he's right.

We don't tend to say God did this and God did that when talking about our own lives.

And we should.

I'm Dan Kroover.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper looks at how the Apostle Paul preached

and why it matters that we sound more like him.

This message was originally preached in Birmingham, Alabama

at the William E. Conger Lectures on February 25, 1998.

Acts 13, verses 17 to 30, is a sermon preached in Antioch of Pisidia by the Apostle Paul,

and it is a stunning sermon.

And I want to walk you through it.

We won't take the time to read it, but we'll walk through it.

And I'm just going to walk from verse to verse pointing out what probably many of you

simply breeze over because you read too fast.

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