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If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

John Piper

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