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

publisher of A Heart of Flame for God, a Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation by Matthew Bingham.

I hope you've heard of this book already. I read it as soon as it came out,

or even before that, had Matthew on LBE, so you can look that up, a previous guest. And I like

the book so much, and I think it's so important that we read it as a staff here at Christ's

Covenant.

And I've also asked Matthew to come and speak at our Cormdeo Pastor's Conference in

2027.

So a clear thinker, a good writer, and really has his finger on an important issue.

It's easy to think that, well, if you want spiritual formation, then you need to go somewhere

besides the reform tradition. That's good for systematic theology or preaching heroes, but maybe

you have to go find Catholics or mystics or modern practitioners. And this book does a great

job of showing that the masters of this were really

the Puritans and they have really good insights and biblical insights into how we grow in our

relationship with God. So pick up a copy of a heart of flame for God, wherever books are sold,

or visit crossway.org slash a flame for God

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We also want to thank our friends at Desiring God for supporting the podcast.

Hopefully you are in the habit of checking out DG for all sorts of good resources.

And here's a new resource from David Mathis.

He has a new children's book on The Life of Jonathan Edwards, Do Great Things for God.

Jonathan Edwards, the boy who sparked revival put out by the Good Book Company. So you can go to the goodbook.com and you can get a copy of this book. We we probably think of Edwards as a dense theologian philosopher, the architect

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