The Heart Taken Up: 90 Days with the Puritans [link]
by Stephen Yuille
Reformation Heritage Books, Grand Rapids, MI. 2025. 276 pp.
I've got a confession to make, I'm not a consistent devotional reader.
I might read for a week, sometimes a bit more, but eventually my mind moves on to other things.
The authors of "The Heart Taken Up: 90 Days with the Puritans" understand that many times devotionals will end up on the shelves unread.
In my opinion ninety days is a more manageable length for a devotional; anything longer generally will remain unfinished.
Each day's meditation follows a simple format.
>A single sentence by a Puritan, some of these are quite notable, such as John Owen, Matthew Henry, John Bunyan; others are not so commonly known.
>The quote is followed by three pages of teaching or meditation about to how the books author relates the sentence to modern life experiences.
>Each day's meditation ends with a short prayer.
Quite often the devotional includes biblical references; direct quotes from the Scriptures are from the NKJV.
The author frequently mentions a written work from the Puritan that was quoted.
The book provides a lively source connecting the Puritans with modern life experiences.
It may encourage some to dig deeper into the works of the Puritans; the last few pages provide both old and new sources that could be referenced for such discovery.
Rob
by Stephen Yuille
Reformation Heritage Books, Grand Rapids, MI. 2025. 276 pp.
I've got a confession to make, I'm not a consistent devotional reader.
I might read for a week, sometimes a bit more, but eventually my mind moves on to other things.
The authors of "The Heart Taken Up: 90 Days with the Puritans" understand that many times devotionals will end up on the shelves unread.
In my opinion ninety days is a more manageable length for a devotional; anything longer generally will remain unfinished.
Each day's meditation follows a simple format.
>A single sentence by a Puritan, some of these are quite notable, such as John Owen, Matthew Henry, John Bunyan; others are not so commonly known.
>The quote is followed by three pages of teaching or meditation about to how the books author relates the sentence to modern life experiences.
>Each day's meditation ends with a short prayer.
Quite often the devotional includes biblical references; direct quotes from the Scriptures are from the NKJV.
The author frequently mentions a written work from the Puritan that was quoted.
The book provides a lively source connecting the Puritans with modern life experiences.
It may encourage some to dig deeper into the works of the Puritans; the last few pages provide both old and new sources that could be referenced for such discovery.
Rob