Balm for Wounded Spirits: William Swan Plumer on Comfort and Affliction

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How should a Christian grieve? When God’s providence takes away someone we love, where can a wounded heart find comfort? In this episode of the Dead Presbyterians Society Podcast, we explore William Swan Plumer's Balm for Wounded Spirits, a 19th-century sermon written for believers walking through loss and affliction. Plumer points sufferers to the sovereignty of God, the sufficiency of Christ, and the promises of Scripture. The letters of his grieving friend William Nevins show those truths sustaining a pastor through the death of his wife.

Dr. Jonathan. L. Master (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) serves as President of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Dr. Master served in pastoral ministry in several congregations in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and subsequently as Dean and Professor of Theology at Cairn University near Philadelphia. He has taught for numerous other institutions including Westminster Seminary (UK) and Edinburgh Theological Seminary. Dr. Master is the author and editor of books including A Question of Consensus: The Doctrine of Assurance After the Westminster Confession (Fortress Press, 2015), The God We Worship (P&R, 2016), On Reforming Worship (Covenant Publications, 2018), Growing in Grace (Banner of Truth, 2020), and Reformed Theology (P&R, 2023). He contributes regularly to a variety of periodicals, including Tabletalk Magazine. Dr. Master serves on the Executive Council of the Gospel Reformation Network, where he hosts the “Theology on the Go” podcast for the Alliance with James Dolezal.

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