‘A Heart Aflame for God’ is an important book on spiritual formation, especially for those unacquainted with the depth and breadth of Reformed spirituality.
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As I made my way to bed, shedding the day’s clothes for fresh pajamas, I continued the conversation with God that had started when I was prostrate on the living room floor, nose squeezed into the gutter between two psalms.
After helping to replant a church in 2019, walking that young congregation through the challenges of the pandemic, and continuing to process the tragic death of my stepfather in 2021, I spent many nights face down on the floor in the fall of 2022. Something felt profoundly broken. In that season, many nights ended the same way: with a guttural longing I was unable to give words to. I wanted more of God, and I wanted my church to experience more of God too.
