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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...

It is difficult to make the glory of God the primary desire, goal, and motivation for our ministry. As one Puritan writer said, it is “as hard as to keep our eye fixed on a single object through an optic glass, held by a trembling hand.”1 In the last chapter, we said the Puritans kept their focus by enjoying daily communion with the Lord. At the heart of their piety was a thirst for communion with Christ. Communing with the Lord kept their eyes on their goal,
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