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#18 John Piper

(4 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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Piper is one of those people blessed with great ability as a communicator, great passion, and solid theology. He has had a surge of popularity over the last five to ten years but his impact goes back a good bit before that. His most highly regarded book, Desiring God, was actually written in 1986. He is the Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and regularly preaches. He has through the years taken sabbaticals and breaks to focus on study and writing and that has given us enough books to fill several shelves on almost any sized bookshelf.

He has the patience to preach on a subject until he feels he has adquitly covered the finer points without ever losing passion. His run on Romans went an astounding 224 sermons from 1998-2006. The organization that releases his books, sermons and additional resources, Desiring God, has helped get his materials into the hands of people both in the US and Worldwide for great prices. He offers almost every book he has ever written for free in digital format as well.

Piper's accomplishments could fill a large book but he is among the most humble preachers around to have risen to his level of popularity in Calvinist circles and elsewhere.

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Here's an example of one of the many videos available online of Piper preaching.

Some Piper resources:
http://www.desiringgod.org/
http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/authors/john-piper
http://twitter.com/johnpiper

#9 Buying Books Online

(9 votes, average: 4.89 out of 5)

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How else are Calvinist supposed to get their books? Unless they travel all the time or go to a lot of conventions most just don't have access to the books of choice. This goes hand in hand with "my Christian bookstore has no good books" and "there is this one church in this small town reprinting out of print reformer books." The modern Christian bookstore accepts the book list of their distributors without question. The discerning palate of the Calvinist requires access to a vast measure of out of print, limited print and just simply hard to find books. The liking dead people thing also affects this as most local bookstores carry only new material or secular classics. A Calvinist might venture to a local bookstore to find a quick copy of Pilgrim's Progress when they wear out their old one but "The Bondage of the Will" by Luther might be out of stock.