Hello there, this is Steve Larsen. I love God, my family, my church, and people. At 62 years old, my life has been marked by long stretches of hardship and a couple of brief seasons of abundance. Along the way I’ve met people from every walk of life: rich, poor, homeless, lonely, sad, joyful, and loved and learned from them all.
That love comes out in the way I play the piano at church, in the things I say in my journals, and in the letters I write. Now I want to express that same love at scale, by bringing the Puritans and other Christian authors to as many people as possible.
My parents were loving Christians who taught me to read using old English books, so I’ve never really struggled with the Puritans the way most people do today. Their language is old. Their grammar is tough. I understand why people put the books down.
But reading the Puritans is what helped pull me out of a long depression a few years ago. And it struck me, in a world full of people carrying real emotional and mental weight, sadness, melancholy, anxiety, and more, that these old writers are some of the most relevant voices available to us. Many of them wrote from prison, from persecution, from sickness, from devastating loss. They knew suffering from the inside.
I have suffered my own seasons in the dungeon before enjoying glory, and I have gone back there again and again. I want others to know that same cycle: winter to spring to summer to fall, and back to winter again, growing in grace and the knowledge of God with the Puritans as guides through every turn.
That’s why I founded Puritan Publishing.
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Hi, this is Steve Larsen. I love God, my family, my church, and people. At 62 years old, my life has been marked by long stretches of hardship and a couple of brief seasons of abundance. Along the way I've met people from every walk of life: rich, poor, homeless, lonely, sad, joyful, and loved and learned from them all.
That love comes out in the way I play the piano at church, in the things I say in my journals, and in the letters I write. Now I want to express that same love at scale, by bringing the Puritans and other Christian authors to as many people as possible.
My parents were loving Christians who taught me to read using old English books, so I've never really struggled with the Puritans the way most people do today. Their language is old. Their grammar is tough. I understand why people put the books down.
But reading the Puritans is what helped pull me out of a long depression a few years ago. And it struck me, in a world full of people carrying real emotional and mental weight, sadness, melancholy, anxiety, and more, that these old writers are some of the most relevant voices available to us. Many of them wrote from prison, from persecution, from sickness, from devastating loss. They knew suffering from the inside.
I have suffered my own seasons in the dungeon before enjoying glory, and I have gone back there again and again. I want others to know that same cycle: winter to spring to summer to fall, and back to winter again, growing in grace and the knowledge of God with the Puritans as guides through every turn.
That's why I founded Puritan Publishing.
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