A Conversation
“You can know something, believe
something, and not have it govern you.”
For seven years John Piper believed abortion was evil and never preached a sermon about it.
Then he watched a rescue on a television in a Pizza Hut. He and Noël sat down with John Ensor,
who talked his way into an invitation to dinner in the Piper home, fifty years ago,
to talk about what changed, what it cost, and the daughter Noël prayed for by name four years before she was born.
“We live in a culture that minimizes suffering and maximizes comfort and ease and convenience, and therefore babies get in the way. Even healthy babies get in the way.”
– John Piper
In this conversation
00:13
Fifty years. A student talks his way into his professor’s dinner party.
15:45
A Pizza Hut, 1987 — the night believing it became doing something.
32:15
Talitha: praying for a daughter by name, four years before she was born.
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