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Encouragement for Today’s Pastors: Help from the Puritans is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Scriptures advise us to learn from examples of faithful ministers (Heb. 13:7). The Puritans were a group of such ministers whose teaching and living can be particularly encouraging to troubled and discouraged pastors today. They were steadfast in adhering to Scripture as the Word of God, in confessing the great truths of the Reformed faith, and in applying sound doctrine to the problems of...

When was the last time a mob came to your house and burned you in effigy? Flavel experienced this and more. What kept him going? What kept him zealous in ministry even when it cost him so much? The simple answer is that it was the same passion that burned in the hearts of most of the Puritans—a desire to glorify God. Solomon Stoddard (1643–1729), grandfather of Jonathan Edwards, summarized the heart of a zealous pastor this way: The Spirit gives them a zeal for God’s glory and the salvation of souls.
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