TIL 220: Physicians of the Soul (feat. Stephen Yuille)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Featuring: - How the Puritans help counselors get to the human heart - Experts in identifying problems and gospel solutions - “Living Blessedly Forever” Puritans on Doctrine and Practice - The lost art of Biblical Meditation - Learning more about the Puritans Resources: - The Blessed and Boundless God - George Swinnock - Triumphing Over Sinful Fear - John Flavel - Great Spoil: Thomas Manton's Spirituality of the Word - Yuille J Stephen https://www.amazon.com/Great-Spoil-Thomas-Mantons-Spirituality/dp/1601786913/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=thomas+manton&qid=1565810005&s=books&sr=1-4
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| 0:00.0 | Physicians of the Soul on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems |
| 0:22.0 | that people face. I'm excited this week that we have Dr. Stephen Yule to join us to talk about |
| 0:29.9 | the Puritans, the Physicians of the Soul. When we think about that term or that phrase, |
| 0:36.6 | Physicians of the Soul, it's hard in our modern context to really think about that term or that phrase, Physicians of the Soul, it's hard in our modern |
| 0:39.5 | context to really think about the role of a minister as a physician. |
| 0:44.8 | Dr. Ewell, can you just describe a little bit about how the Puritans took on that phrase |
| 0:51.7 | or that label as physicians of the soul from some of their works in the past? |
| 0:57.6 | Certainly. I think there are a couple of things that led to that designation. I mean, that's something that you'll find in the literature. |
| 1:07.2 | You'll find the Puritans referred to as physicians of a soul. And I think it emerged |
| 1:11.9 | for two chief reasons. The first being their ability to identify the problem. So assess people's |
| 1:22.7 | spiritual condition. They were very keen in terms of looking beyond life circumstances, looking |
| 1:32.0 | beyond the externals, and getting to the, literally the heart of the matter, and understanding |
| 1:40.1 | what is it in the heart of man that gives rise to the way we think, the way we talk, the way |
| 1:47.6 | we act, the decisions we make, the dreams and the aspirations we have? And so they were very good |
| 1:53.6 | at diagnosing the problem and very clear on the fact that ultimately the problem resides |
| 1:59.7 | in the depravity of the human heart. |
| 2:03.6 | And then coupled with that, they were very, very good when it came to the remedy, prescribing |
| 2:08.6 | the remedy and the gospel, and what it means to be in union with Christ. |
| 2:15.3 | And so they were just experts at identifying the ailment, the problem, |
| 2:21.2 | and they excelled than at applying the gospel to the problem. Very unique in that way, |
| 2:29.1 | and something we could really learn from them today. Yeah, and one of the reasons we choose this topic, I've personally benefited so much from |
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