Greetings and salutations. Good to have our listeners back, whether for the first time or our loyal listeners.

Glad to have you with us. This is Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin D. Young, joined

with Justin Taylor. Colin is out today, and we have a special guest that I will introduce in just

a moment. Just want to thank one more time, Crossway, our sponsor for this season, and commend to you

if you're looking for a last-minute gift idea,

John Piper's book of Advent devotions,

a number of good devotionals around Advent themes,

and John Piper has one with Crossway this year,

and encourage you to look at that.

And also I mentioned last week,

but we'll highlight again the new book by

Johnny Gibson, Be Thou My Vision, which is an excellent resource. It has 31 days praying through,

I've been calling it a reformed version of the book of common prayer in some ways. It's taking the idea of praying through

kind of a daily office, but you can use it personally or for daily worship with your family

and inserting reformed confessions and historical creeds. And it's really, really a lovely resource,

and I've started using it since I got my copy last week.

We bought copies for all of our staff members at our church

and really encourage to have people use it.

In fact, we bought three books, Justin from Crossway,

the ESV Concise Crossway, the ESV concise study Bible, the Be Thou My Vision,

and then Paul Trips, New Morning Mercies, if someone wants to start a reading plan, a devotional plan for the new year. So our guest for the last episode of this

season, and after this, we'll take a break for several weeks over the holidays. Lord willing,

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