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Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

On John Cotton's Congregationalism (Ep. 318)

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8736 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Pastors Talk, Mark and Jonathan invite Stephen Yuille and Caleb Morell to talk about the writing of John Cotton, focusing on his perspective on Congregationalism.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Jonathan Lehman, and that's Mark Devere.

0:07.8

Welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk, where we try to help build healthy churches.

0:14.2

Learn more at nine marks.org.

0:16.0

And if you're interested in helping us help churches, by giving, you can go to 9marks.org forward slash talk.

0:24.3

And with us today, we have a couple of guests.

0:27.9

First, Caleb, you've, Morrell.

0:29.7

Caleb, you've been here before, right?

0:30.9

Sometime, a host of pastor's talk.

0:33.5

Good to be with you, Jonathan.

0:34.3

And people told me what a great job you did.

0:35.9

Thank you.

0:37.0

So thank you for being back.

0:39.0

Caleb is an assistant pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist, author of Light on the Hill.

0:44.5

Are you working on any other books right now?

0:46.7

Mark and I are co-editing a new edition of polity with Crossway.

0:51.0

So the Baptist polity documents are coming back that's exactly right

0:56.1

Baptist polity is there a subtitle not yet no okay and then also special guest today we

1:03.3

have Stephen Ewell Stephen thank you for being with us it's great to be with you and I'm

1:07.6

gonna say nine things about Stephen. Nine things. Number one, Dr. Stephen Yule's been married for Talasin for 34 years and they have two daughters and two grandsons. Number two, he's a Canadian. Well, that's, I didn't say that. That's ten. Okay. We're going to have to go with ten things. Forget the nine. Number two, he's a Canadian.

1:27.7

Number three, editor and director of Puritan publishing at Reformation Heritage Books. Correct. Doing that for a couple of years. Number three, also B, he's taught at Southwestern Seminary. That's my next one. Professor of Church History and Spiritual Formation in Southwestern. So you're up to five, yeah. Yeah, I know. Or four. Five. Preaching pastor at Fairview Covenant Church in Granbury, Texas. So is that an evangelical covenant church? No, it's Southern Baptist Church. It's an odd name for Southern Baptist Church. Yeah. It works. We Baptists have covenants as well. Yeah. Something in the Bible about the new covenant, you know. Number six, degrees from University of Toronto, Toronto Baptist Seminary, Tendale Seminary, and your PhD from London School of Theology. Linen School of Theology? I said London. London. Who said Lennon? Why did you say Linden? That's what you socialists sounded like. It's weird, dude.

2:23.0

You're the editor of works of Thomas Watson coming out soon. Managing editor.

2:24.4

Due in June of next year.

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