Puritan Treasures for today 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.

I am thrilled to have with me on this first day of our conference in Fort Worth, Texas, ancient past, soul care in past places.

I'm delighted to have with me, Dr. Stephen Yule. He's married to Allison. They have two daughters, two grandsons.

Dr. Yule is the director of Puritan Publishing at Reformation Heritage Books.

He also serves as pastor at Fairview Covenant Church in Granbury, Texas,

and as professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

Stephen was my pastor when I was a professor at Southwestern.

I'm so delighted to have this brother with

me. He's going to be speaking at our conference along with Joel Beakey and Sinclair Ferguson,

and we're really looking forward to talking about the Puritans and the things that they have to

offer. Our task today, Stephen, is to talk about Puritan treasures for today. I'm so excited

and delighted to introduce our listeners to

a series of books that you guys are doing at Reformation Heritage Books on this topic, Puritan

treasures for today. First place to start, as I welcome you here, is who are the Puritans?

Great question. That indeed is the place to start. When we speak of the Puritans,

we are thinking of a movement in the late 1500s into the 1600s in England, and a movement

that encompasses a few different branches. There is something of an ecclesiastical emphasis to it.

Those within the Church of England

who wanted to reform the church, bring it into greater conformity with Scripture. And so they

were dubbed Puritans, those who wanted to purify the church, get rid of some of the ceremonies,

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