I'm going to check the audio levels here for a minute and just have you have you talk.

Tell me what books besides the Bible have been most impactful for you?

Oh, guys.

I don't know.

That's really is hard.

Well, how about one would be the dissertation on the end for which God created the world?

That was the focus of half of my doctoral dissertation and when Piper came out with

his new edition of that, I wrote him a letter, but I just said, wow, you know, this is like

what's this neglected text and here you've, you know, you've highlighted it and I just

was very, you know, taken it.

There's almost no writing on it.

I mean, it just dropped out of sight.

Everyone is always talking about freedom of the will, which obviously is important, but

Sidney Alström, he also said that the dissertation on the end was the kind of the essence of Edward

theology.

You know, it's kind of distilled, you know, down the God-in-Trans vision, I think, to use

the language of the book later.

All right.

Well, we are recording.

Thank you for joining us.

Yeah, that book, that book is titled, I think God's Passion for his glory, living the

vision of John of the Edwards, such a great book, fundamental to Edwards and Piper and

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