The Puritans on contentment on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems

that people face.

Once again, this week, similar to last week I have with me on the podcast, Dr. Stephen Yule.

He is the vice president of academics at Heritage Bible College and Seminary in Ontario,

Canada.

He's married to Allison, and he's been an ACBC member for several years.

He was actually my pastor at Grace Community Church in Glenrose, Texas, for several years,

while both of us lived in Texas, and neither of us lived there anymore. But I'm so grateful

for this brother. Dr. Ewell, thank you so much for joining us. I'm looking forward to our talk

on this issue of contentment.

Yes, it's great to be back with you again. Pleasure.

Now, you've done a lot of work, certainly in Puritan literature. You've studied that quite a bit.

Your ultimate love is certainly for scripture. But I do want to get and gleaned some information from you relative to this issue of contentment and particularly how the

Puritans thought about that.

I do find it interesting, first of all, that we don't seem to think that deeply about

these types of issues like contentment in our modern day.

It seems to so some of our predecessors really spent a lot of time thinking very deeply

about these types of issues like gratitude,

thankfulness, contentment, the things that hindered them from enjoying contentment in their

life. So I want you to just talk for a second about the Puritans, how they wrote on this subject,

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