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Ask Pastor John

Will You Ever Write a Piper Bible Commentary?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Good commentaries should ask and answer questions that enable people to see things for themselves, and probe into reality, not just verbal relations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So we recorded these episodes early because by airtime pastor John you will not be in your

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office in Minnesota but you will be Lord willing ministering somewhere in Hong Kong

0:12.8

and you'll be there between May 20th and 26th and then from there you go on to Korea and

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minister there between May 26th and June 1st.

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These are some amazing opportunities ahead so we would love to ask for everyone to join

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and pray for this trip.

0:29.2

These international trips are priceless opportunities for us to get the message of Christian

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hedonism to new audiences of course who have never heard before.

0:37.0

The truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

0:42.5

And if you financially support DesiringGod.org you make trips like this one possible.

0:48.0

So grateful to God for you, for your sacrifices and for your ongoing prayers of support on behalf

0:54.3

of Pastor John.

0:56.1

Well today's question is fairly common and this time it comes to us from an anonymous

1:00.3

listener who simply asks this pastor John, have you ever thought about releasing a commentary

1:04.8

on the whole Bible?

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I know a few pastors have done it and I'm not saying that every pastor should do it but

1:09.6

since you release a good amount of content like books, articles, sermons and podcasts

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I've wondered if you plan on releasing a commentary on the Bible or on certain books.

1:19.0

You seem capable and what would make a great Bible commentary in your opinion?

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The closest things I have done to a commentary is to preach through books of the Bible and

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then post those manuscripts along with the audio or the video online at DesiringGod.

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So for example there's 250 sermons on Romans and a few other books that I did over the

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