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How to Get the Main Point of a Large Section of Scripture

July 26, 2017 By Peter Krol

In this audio interview, John Piper gives a great analogy of a detailed jigsaw puzzle to explain how to pull the pieces of a text together into a main point. He then models how he did this with Psalm 8. It’s very well done.

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