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D. D. D. D.O.R.G. Thank you all for coming tonight.

We want to get started right on time because we have a very tight schedule.

We want to finish up in time for everyone to get to the banquet right at 650.

I'm Lane Dennis, President of Crossway Books, and it's my great privilege tonight to introduce Dr. John Piper to you.

John will be speaking to us tonight on William Tindale and the Bible.

And John I'm sure you know all of you know well, but John is the pastor of preaching and vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I love that preaching and vision both.

And he did his undergraduate work at Wheaton College and earned his B.D. from Fuller, and then his doctor of theology from the University of Munich.

John is the author of more than 20 books.

His latest is what Jesus demands from the world,

published by Crossway. And he and his wife have four sons and one daughter, and an

increasing number of grandchildren.

And it is John's lectures that he gives every year on one of the great personalities from

Church history have become legendary and they are collected in a series of books called

The Swans Are Not Silent.

And it is my great privilege to have known John and to know John as a dear friend and to publish

a number of John's books and to benefit from John and his passion for the

gospel, his passion for God's word, and his passion to give God all the glory.

Won't you welcome John Paper.

Thank you.

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