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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...

If ministers are to see any fruit from their ministry, they must first sanctify themselves and cleanse their hearts by repentance before they presume to stand up to rebuke sin in others.11 Thomas Foxcroft (1697–1769) raised this issue in his inaugural sermon at First Congregational Church in Boston: Dependence upon ministers is a derogation from the Lord
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