The Man on the Middle Cross with Alistair Begg
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you haven’t seen the viral clip, go see it right now. In this episode, Kevin talks to Alistair about the preaching clip he didn’t intend to give, he never put online himself, and he never expected to be one of the most well known moments of his ministry. The content from that clip has been combined with two other Jesus encounters in the Gospels and turned into a short book. Listen to Kevin and Alistair talk about that book as well as the Ryder Cup, “retirement,” and reflections on growing older (though Alistair doesn’t look it).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Life and Books and Everything is brought to you by Crossway. |
| 0:12.4 | Publisher of my new book. |
| 0:15.8 | I don't write the ad copy. |
| 0:18.5 | They tell me what books they want me to highlight. And as long as I like them, |
| 0:23.1 | which I do. So I guess I do like this book. The biggest story, Advent, 25 Lift the Flap devotions |
| 0:30.0 | for families. So this is a book in the biggest story suite of books. It's a new book. This isn't just pulling out some Christmas |
| 0:40.7 | stories from one of the other books, but I wrote 25 new chapters. It's about a page each. |
| 0:47.2 | You could probably read through it in three or four minutes with your family, and it goes through |
| 0:52.6 | 24 Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah and then |
| 0:57.7 | Christmas the 25th is the birth of Christ and Don Clark always great to work with him with new |
| 1:05.1 | illustrations and it is a classic open up a door a flap and see see the Bible verse, and go through this, I think, |
| 1:14.1 | would be a great thing to do with your family. We're going to do it with our family, |
| 1:18.4 | and as always, Crossway has done a great job. So do check out the biggest story Advent book. |
| 1:23.7 | It just came out. It's a big, thick, impressive-looking book. Crossways team has done a great job, |
| 1:31.3 | and I hope you'll enjoy it. We also want to thank our friends at Desiring God for supporting the |
| 1:35.6 | podcast. Bethlehem College and Seminary is finalizing plans for the 38th annual Serious Joy |
| 1:42.5 | conference. This year's theme is word plus spirit, the power |
| 1:48.1 | of supernatural ministry. I'm going to be there. I'm looking forward to it. John Piper, Mark Vrogup, |
| 1:55.5 | David Mathis, and others will be speaking. I'm speaking on Tuesday night, February 3rd, Holiness, Word, and Spirit and Sanctification. |
| 2:04.5 | So you can hear the theme there about the power of the word and the spirit in ministry. |
| 2:10.8 | Each speaker will explore unique facets of supernatural ministry. |
| 2:14.7 | It is really important as we go through the daily grind of pastoral ministry, church life |
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