Piper, John
John Piper is an Alliance
Council member and the Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina,
and studied at Wheaton College, where he first sensed God's call to
enter the ministry. He went on to earn degrees from Fuller Theological
Seminary (B.D.) and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years
he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota,
and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem. John is
the author of more than twenty books and his preaching and teaching is
featured on the daily radio program Desiring God. He and wife Noël have four sons, one daughter, and an increasing number of grandchildren.