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Reflections on the Life and Thought of John Owen

April 21, 2005

Reflections on the Life and Thought of John Owen

Sovereign Grace Ministries Leadership Conference | Baltimore, Maryland

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John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Coronavirus and Christ.

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The manuscript for this message comes from John Piper’s 1994 Pastor’s Conference biography,“The Chief Design of My Life: Mortification and Universal Holiness.”

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