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This product will be available on May 19th, 2026
Description
Discover Timeless Strength for the Modern Soul
In Hope that Endures: How Puritan Wisdom Challenges the Modern Soul, Emily Lucas invites readers on a transformative journey through the enduring insights of the Puritans—those often-misunderstood spiritual giants whose voices echo with surprising relevance today. With warmth and honesty, Lucas shares her own struggles with anxiety, exhaustion, and the pressures of modern life, revealing how the writings of Puritan pastors like Richard Sibbes, Jeremiah Burroughs, Thomas Watson, William Gurnall, and John Bunyan became lifelines of hope and challenge.
Far from being dry or outdated, the Puritans offer practical wisdom for the heart’s deepest battles: contentment in chaos, healing from shame, finding purpose amid busyness, resisting conformity, and making wise choices in a noisy world. Each chapter pairs a modern challenge with a Puritan guide, weaving together personal stories, historical context, and spiritual exercises that invite readers to deeper self-examination and authentic faith.
Hope that Endures is more than a book—it’s a companion for women seeking real change, lasting comfort, and a faith that thrives in every season. Let these enduring voices help you meet life’s challenges with courage, grace, and a hope that truly endures.
Endorsements
With ruthless self-examination and penetrating insight, she shares how reading the Puritans not only raises questions about many of our twenty-first century assumptions, but can also revive our weary souls – because they lift our focus onto what is really important and who is truly satisfying.
Carrie Sandom
Director of Women’s Ministry, Proclamation Trust
In this heartfelt volume, Emily Lucas introduces us to five men who will pastor your weary soul deeply, faithfully, theologically and tenderly. This is the 16th century wisdom you never knew you needed for your 21st century life.
Ros Clarke
Associate Director, Church Society
... can challenge us to examine our hearts and overcome ingrained habits such as discontent, busyness, and cultural conformity. It is a book to read carefully and digest thoughtfully.
Simonetta Carr
Author
In a world that prizes instant results and outward appearances, this book calls us to build our lives upon the glorious and unchanging truths of Scripture. Emily introduces us to the Puritans and distills their wisdom in a gentle and accessible way that will help readers to persevere in faith, whatever they are facing
Emma Scrivener
Blogger at emmascrivener.net and author of ‘A New Name’ and ‘A New Day’
Author
Emily Lucas lives in Sussex with her husband Ben, an Associate Vicar, their three children, four guinea pigs and tortoise. She is Tutor for Women at Union School of Theology, where she tutors in Church History and Systematic Theology. She loves spending time outdoors with her family, running, reading, writing and speaking at church groups and conferences.
Specifications
ISBN 9781527114180
Author Emily Lucas
Imprint Focus
Release Date 19 May 2026
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Width 130 mm
Height 198 mm
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