Hearing the Voice Within on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Bill 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.

This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with me, Dr. Stephen Yule.

He serves as Professor of Church History and Spiritual Formation at Southwestern Baptist Theological

Seminary.

He's also managing editor at Reformation Heritage Books, as well as the preaching pastor

at Grace Covenant Church in Granbury, Texas.

Dr. Yule is the author and editor of numerous books on English Puritanism and biblical

studies. He's married to Allison, and they have two daughters, and more importantly, one

grandson, which is important. And another on the way. And another on the way. We can celebrate that.

Oh, that's so exciting. Man, as I think about this topic, hearing the voice within mysticism, I'm really eager

to get into this.

I see this very interesting movement, obviously, in the mental health world, but in

Christendom more broadly, just this mystical, experiential, existential sort of movement.

I'm interested to see Dr. Yule how you're going to tackle some of this.

So I want to talk about this idea of mysticism, what it means.

It can be a confusing word with lots and different meanings, and we're certainly seeing

this stuff thrown out right now.

So just give us some definitional parameters.

What are we talking about when we're describing this concept of mysticism or hearing voices within? Yeah, definition is a

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