TIL 538: Walking With Watson (feat. Stephen Yuille)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
1. Who was Thomas Watson?
2. What stands out about Thomas Watson?
3. What is a Puritan?
4. Why is Watson such an important read for a biblical counselor?
5. What does Watson/Puritans have to lend help to a biblical counselor?
6. Where do we begin reading Watson?
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| 0:00.0 | Walking with Watson on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.0 | 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. |
| 0:19.8 | This week on the podcast, I'm thrilled to have with me, |
| 0:22.1 | Dr. Stephen Ewell. He's married to Allison. They have two daughters and two grandsons. Dr. Ewell is the |
| 0:27.4 | director of Puritan Publishing at Reformation Heritage Books. He also serves as pastor at Fairview |
| 0:32.8 | Covenant Church in Granbury, Texas. He's a professor of church history at Southwestern |
| 0:37.4 | Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Dr. Ewell is professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological |
| 0:38.0 | Seminary in Fort Worth. Dr. Eulis, always good to be with you. Thanks for being here. Oh, it's good to be |
| 0:42.4 | with you, too. Now, walking with Watson, people hear that. They're probably not certain what in the |
| 0:47.7 | world we're going to talk about, but we're talking about Thomas Watson. And really the idea is |
| 0:51.9 | why we should make old brothers of the past some of our best |
| 0:56.6 | friends and why they can be an encouragement to us. And Thomas Watson certainly fits that bill. |
| 1:01.7 | So first of all, we should introduce our listeners to who in the world is Thomas Watson. |
| 1:06.9 | That is a good place to start. Thomas Watson, an old English Puritan, so we're back in the 1600s, a graduate of Cambridge, |
| 1:15.5 | ministered in the city of London for more or less 40 years, married, seven children, |
| 1:22.5 | and a prolific preacher, prolific author, probably without debate, one of the most readable |
| 1:29.7 | Puritans that have come down to us. His works are, I mean, their depth and their breadth. |
| 1:37.7 | They are quite unique because of their accessibility and readability. So that's a little bit |
| 1:42.8 | about Thomas Watson. We don't have a lot of background information and readability. So that's a little bit about Thomas Watson. |
| 1:49.7 | We don't have a lot of background information on his upbringing. We do know something of his involvement with the Westminster Assembly and some of the political goings of the 1650s, |
| 1:56.8 | but we can leave all that aside. Now, we're talking about many years of church history and lots of faithful brothers and sisters |
| 2:05.6 | who have built sturdy shoulders for us to stand upon, and Thomas Watson is one of those guys. |
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