The shepherd boy didn’t begin his week expecting to face down a blood-thirsty giant anymore than you may be facing an unexpected challenge in your life. How should one cope? According to the Puritan pastor Henry Airay (c.1560–1616), the people of God should face challenges the same way that David faced Goliath—without fear and drawing…

William Perkins (1558–1602) was an English Puritan theologian who was well known for his exposition of Calvinist teachings and became one of the first English Reformed theologians to achieve international recognition. Reflecting, here, on the fall, he asserts that the first sin was not an isolated act, but rather the culmination of a complex series…