I’ve never opened Gospelbound with a book blurb or endorsement. But I can’t say it better myself. “You hold in your hands a smorgasbord of theological delights. Daily Doctrine is at one a daily devotional, a mini systematic theology, and a reference tool.”

That’s from Joel Beeke about the new book from my guest today, Kevin DeYoung. (Bonus points to Beeke for using one of my favorite Swedish words.) You know Kevin as a book author. You know him as a systematic theology professor at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. You know him as a conference speaker and as the pastor of Christ Covenant Church. You might even know him as a Bears fan and the host of a little podcast called Life and Books and Everything, where he allows me and our friend Justin Taylor to banter a few times a year. My family knows him as the guy who wrote The Biggest Story—we read the storybook together every evening and watch the amazing animated videos produced by Crossway with Michael Reeves on the narration.

Kevin joined me on Gospelbound to discuss his new book, David Wells’s influence, the mission of Clearly Reformed, the challenge of antinomianism, the role of family devotions in shaping faith, and more.

Kevin and I have been friends for a long time. And I appreciate how he refuses to shy away from writing hard things, including critical book reviews.

“I think Collin there’s a temptation as we get older . . . to play it safe,” he told me. “You have more people depending on you, more to lose. You have a different place in different constituencies, and you don’t need to be a brawler in the same way. And yet, I hope I’m not out there saying, which book will [I review] this year? But I hope if there’s something that seems to be a real concern for people I know, and people out there, that I wouldn’t be afraid to try to read and write carefully.”