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Life and Books and Everything

A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation with Matthew Bingham

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6635 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It is often believed, by friends and critics alike, that the Reformed tradition, though perhaps good on formal doctrine, is impoverished when it comes to spiritual formation. The charge is that the Reformed approach to piety is all about head knowledge, about learning things as brains on sticks. Other Christians may be less critical but simply assume that there is no right or wrong way to do spiritual formation. This often leads evangelical to adopt an eclectic approach to personal growth in Christ. Many Christians in conservative Protestant churches end up adopting Catholic and Orthodox approaches as being more fulsome and effective. But what if there is a Reformed approach to spiritual formation that is rich, deep, historic, and more biblical than the alternatives? That’s what Kevin explores with Matthew Bingham (associate professor of church history at Phoenix Seminary) as they dig into Matthew’s fantastic new book A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation (Crossway).

Chapters:

0:00 Sponsors & Intro

3:27 Tell Us About Yourself

8:16 Spiritual Formation

14:18 A Heart Aflame for God

21:15 A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation

26:53 Sponsor Break

29:44 Biblical Centrality

40:40 The Reformed Triangle of Spiritual Formation

47:24 Quick Takes

1:06:41 Final Thoughts

1:12:14 Until Next Time…

Books & Everything:

ESV New Testament, Share the Good News® Edition

Desiring God | Holy Week

GPTS | A Sacred Calling

WTS | MA in Theological Studies

Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Life and Books and Everything is brought to you in part by Crossway,

0:12.5

publisher of the ESV New Testament, Share the Good News edition.

0:17.3

This edition features a reading plan, which will take you through parts of the New Testament,

0:22.5

and it is part of Crossways initiative to help equip Christians to share the gospel to unbelieving friends and family.

0:29.6

And the best way to do that is to get people into the Word of God.

0:34.2

This edition is convenient, it's cost-effective.

0:37.4

Pick up a copy of the ESV New Testament. Share

0:40.1

the Good News edition, wherever books are sold. And as always, you can sign up for a Crossway

0:45.8

Plus account and get 30% off this and other orders. We also want to mention our friends at Desiring

0:52.7

God. They have put together an eight-day Holy Week devotional, leading you from Palm Sunday through Easter, entitled One Week to Save the World.

1:03.7

These are short daily devotions, seven to eight minutes each.

1:07.2

You can read or listen to them.

1:09.4

This will help you deepen your understanding of Christ's

1:12.1

sacrifice and resurrection as you journey through the most important events in history.

1:17.7

I know every time Holy Week comes around, it is a special week in the life of the Christian,

1:23.7

and the life of the church, and it often gets filled up with other things, and all of a

1:28.1

sudden it's gone. And so this is a great opportunity to make sure that Holy Week doesn't pass

1:34.2

you by, and you take some extra time to get into the Word, to think about the magnificent work of

1:41.0

Christ and what it means for our lives.

1:45.1

Greetings and salutations.

1:47.3

Welcome to Life and Books and Everything.

1:49.8

My name is Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina.

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