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Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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