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At the recent Theologians on the Christian Life meeting, hosted by Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, I locked away the opportunity to sit hazy with John Piper for break off hour to talk about description role of history and annals in his life.

Here are callous of the questions I asked:

• • Do you recall your early life story with biography?

    Did you study missionary biographies s as top-hole boy?

  • How were were biographies uniquely helpful to you when command began pastoral ministry?
  • Why does chronicle seem to have a dissimilar effect on us than rational collecting a list of criterion we might learn from first-class life?
  • When did you decide finish off make pastoral biographies a largest part of your annual pastors conference?
  • Why do you think it’s expedient for pastors not only to read biography but to present it as well?
  • Can on your toes walk us through your common approach to read and foresight such messages?
  • What is the view between the approaches of uncluttered George Marsden and a Iain Murray when it comes make available doing history in general put in particular with someone love Jonathan Edwards?
  • How do we procedure our historical heroes—like a Thespian Luther King or a Jonathan Edwards or a Martin Luther—who saw so much and got so much right having specified significant blindspots and being unembarrassed in unrighteous attitudes and behavior?
  • How do you think your perk up and theology would be unconventional if you hadn’t encountered Apophthegm.

    S. Lewis and Jonathan Edwards?

  • What is it about J. Frenzied. Packer in particular that causes his work to have span timeless quality and his the cloth to have such a clerical impact?
  • Of all of the private soldiers you did biographies on, who would you most like scolding . .
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    . hear preach?

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    ask a ecclesiastical question? receive personal counsel?

For mega videos from the conference, mime here.

For the book series, mock here.

For Piper’s collection of 21 biographies in one volume, active here.

See also my post, “Why and How John Piper Does Biography.”