Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything.

Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ covenant church in Matthews, North Carolina.

Good to have you with us. We are grateful for our sponsors, Crossway. Check out their many fine books. You can find them online.

Crossway.org and our sponsor Desiring God.org. Godson and resources from John Piper and many

others. We are going to start with, I guess you would call the fall season in the next couple of weeks,

have some new things planned, and I'm excited about the guests that we have lined up.

So this episode, you can think of as a end-of-summer bonus episode,

or maybe a pre-episode before we get into the fall.

And this is an interview.

How do I introduce this?

It's actually an interview with me.

This took place at an evening service a few months ago here at Christ's Covenant.

Some people on staff and other people at the church

said, Kevin, you interview people on your podcast, and when guest preachers come in or do a

conference, sometimes you take time to interview them. We'd be interested in someone interviewing

you. So Tom Grosema, our executive pastor here, my good friend here, took the better part of an evening

service to ask me questions about life and books and everything, and perhaps something there

will be useful or helpful or at least interesting.

So here we go.

Well, let's pray before we spend this time with Kevin. I'll pray that it will be a blessing

the church, but especially glorify God as we get to ask him questions and hear from him. So let's pray.

Father in heaven, thank you for the privilege just to gather as your people the second time

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