Lively Truths and Puritan Spirituality with Stephen Yuille

In this episode of Christ the Center, Camden Bucey welcomes Stephen Yuille, director of Puritan publishing at Reformation Heritage Books, for a conversation on Puritan spirituality and the devotional series 90 Days with the Puritans. Yuille reflects on his work with Puritan writings, the relationship between the mind and the affections, and the way the Puritans seek to move biblical truth from mere cognition into doxology, repentance, obedience, and perseverance.

The discussion centers on five “lively truths” that recur throughout the Puritan tradition: the majesty of God, the beauty of Christ, the severity of sin, the mystery of providence, and the hope of glory. Along the way, Camden and Stephen consider biblical meditation, Thomas Manton, holiness as divine beauty, beholding Christ through Scripture rather than mysticism, affliction as fatherly discipline, and the believer’s blessed hope in the face of death and suffering.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:33 Stephen Yuille and Reformation Heritage Books
• 2:24 Stephen Yuille’s ministry and Puritan publishing work
• 8:46 What gave rise to 90 Days with the Puritans
• 11:15 Five lively truths in Puritan spirituality
• 15:51 Biblical meditation and the Puritans
• 22:42 Thomas Manton as a guide to meditation
• 25:20 Holiness as beauty, not divine scowling
• 31:07 Beholding Christ without mysticism
• 36:10 Sin, holiness, and the doctrines of grace
• 39:12 Christ altogether lovely
• 45:53 Providence, affliction, and fatherly discipline
• 51:24 Death, glory, and the blessed hope
• 57:45 Closing thoughts and resources

Participants

• Camden Bucey
• Stephen Yuille

Resources mentioned

• Reformation Heritage Books
• Thomas Manton, Holy Meditation
• Stephen Yuille, The Sight of Christ
• Stephen Yuille, The Heart Taken Up
• Stephen Yuille, The Fullness of Grace