Background
Beeke, Joel Robert was born on December 9, 1952 in Kalamazoo. Son of John and Johanna Lucy (Van Strein) Beeke.
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This encyclopedic resource provides biographical sketches of all the major Puritans as well as bibliographic summaries of their writings and work. Meet the Puritans is an important addition to the library of the layman, pastor, student and scholar.
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A look at the scriptural message, methods, and disposition of Puritan evangelism should convict us of our need to return to a scriptural foundation for all evangelism. As the Puritans adopted biblical principles of evangelism and became practioners of them in their ministries, so we should embody these same principles in our teaching and work. We have much to learn from the Puritans about how to evangelize.
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Every Christian yearns to be more Christ-like. This book addresses how we can be more conformed to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29) in four of the most difficult areas of the Christian life: cross-bearing, office-bearing, sorrow, and endurance.
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This book is packed with practical guidance on how to evangelize covenant children and how, by God’s grace, to make the home “a nursery for heaven.” After showing that Christians today fail to understand the role of the covenant in their children’s lives, Joel R. Beeke offers insight on the covenant relationship between God and man, and its implications for home and family. He then teaches parents how to instruct their children in the gospel, with detailed guidelines on how to use prayer, family worship, teaching, conversation, and mentoring to evangelize children. Leading a child to Christ is a lengthy but hopeful journey in which parents must use God’s appointed means while depending radically upon the Holy Spirit to produce the desired result. Table of Contents: 1. Understanding the Need 2. Teaching the Content of the Gospel 3. Using the Means 4. Concluding Applications Appendix: A Loving Encouragement to Flee Worldliness Scripture Index
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(This book is packed with practical guidance on how to eva...)
This book is packed with practical guidance on how to evangelize covenant children and how, by God's grace, to make the home a nursery for heaven. After showing that Christians today fail to understand the role of the covenant in their children's lives, Joel R. Beeke offers insight on the covenant relationship between God and man, and its implications for home and family. He then teaches parents how to instruct their children in the gospel, with detailed guidelines on how to use prayer, family worship, teaching, conversation, and mentoring to evangelize children. Leading a child to Christ is a lengthy but hopeful journey in which parents must use God's appointed means while depending radically upon the Holy Spirit to produce the desired result.
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(The theological system known as Calvinism is often carica...)
The theological system known as Calvinism is often caricatured or simply dismissed as a relic of the past. But as Dr. Joel R. Beeke shows us in this comprehensive treatment, Calvinism, also known as Reformed theology, is biblical, God-centered, heartfelt, winsome, and practical. As such, it is uniquely suited to help Christians fulfill the purpose for which they were created-to live to the glory of God. With the gifted help of eight contributors, Dr. Beeke traces the roots of Calvinism and sets forth its doctrinal distinctives, then explores how Calvinists live out their beliefs in every sphere of life, from their private devotions to their service in the church, from their marriages to their careers, from politics to ethics. Through the examples of John Calvin himself, the Puritans, and other Calvinists of the past, this God-exalting belief system emerges as a timeless guide for Christian living.
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Dr. Beeke offers a heartfelt and solemn plea for families to return to Biblical, consistent and passionate family worship. With pastoral insight and care the author provides practical and valuable answers to the practice of family worship and at the same time addresses objections raised against it. In a world of impossible standards and idealism, this book is a helpful and motivating guide to implement or increase the depth of your family devotions.
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If you are a true believer, Satan hates you because you bear the image of Christ and because you were snatched from his power. You deserted Satan and he wants you back. While we should not overestimate Satan's power, to our peril we underestimate an enemy who is living, intelligent, resourceful and cunning. Every Christian is in a battle, which is fierce, spiritual and necessary. It is a battle between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to know the enemy his personality, his strategies, his weaknesses, his defeat on Calvary and his final judgement. In a day when society has, in many ways, placed itself under Satan's rule, when certain branches of the church are preoccupied with deliverance ministries, while others deny the devils existence, Dr Beekes book is a sober, practical perspective on this vital subject. He states, we must know our enemy ... we must know how to withstand him and what spiritual weapons to take up against him. We must defeat him by faith, through lives that bear fruit and spread the truth.
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(Overcoming the World: Grace to Win the Daily Battle by Jo...)
Overcoming the World: Grace to Win the Daily Battle by Joel R. Beeke P & R P...
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We see all around us that the world is on a quest for pleasure, power, profit, and position. Many Christians struggle to live faithfully in such a world and stay true to Christ's command to be in the world, but not of it. Taking direction from the Puritans, John Calvin, and others, Joel Beeke guides readers to the biblical alternatives to worldliness: genuine piety and holiness. Written for such times as these, Overcoming the World will be a source of encouragement and growth for readers that are serious about following Christ. Pastors and other leaders will find here a uniquely practical work that will help them in leading Christians through the narrow gate.
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(In Puritan Reformed Spirituality Joel Beeke provides us w...)
In Puritan Reformed Spirituality Joel Beeke provides us with a first-class tour of some of the great sites of Reformed theology and spirituality. Here we meet John Calvin, reformer extraordinaire; then we encounter the learned Dr William Ames and the insightful Anthony Burgess. Soon we have travelled north to meet the Scotsmen John Brown of Haddington, the great Thomas Boston and the remarkable brothers, Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine. Predictably, but happily our guide brigs us to The Netherlands and to the time of the Nadere Reformatie, before taking us back to the New World in the company of the remarkable Theodorus Jacobus Freylinghuysen. But the climax of this tour is not reached until our trusted guide has brought us to the family roots from which all these theologians and pastors came - to the strong foundations of Christian living in justification by faith and sanctification in life, nourished by the power of biblical preaching.
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ruth that Frees is a workbook on Reformed doctrine for young adults, and offers nearly 1,300 questions for classroom or home instruction. It covers Reformed doctrine from the context of Abraham Hellenbroek's catechism, A Specimen of Divine Truths (see page 8). The purpose of this work is to stimulate young adults to understand the freeing power of Reformed doctrine. The Teachers' Guide contains detailed answers to all 1,287 questions.
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(Against the background of the sixteenth century Reformers...)
Against the background of the sixteenth century Reformers (with special attention to Calvin), Beeke examines the theological development of personal assurance of faith in English Puritanism and its parallel movement in the Netherlands, the Dutch Second Reformation.
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(To live with purpose and joy, we must know Christ and liv...)
To live with purpose and joy, we must know Christ and live out of Him personally and experientially. The theme of Christ-centered living runs like a scarlet thread throughout these fifty-two weekly devotions, aiming for the conversion of the unsaved and for the growth of believers.
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(In this book, Joel Beeke investigates how the Puritans pr...)
In this book, Joel Beeke investigates how the Puritans proclaimed what God's Word counsels regarding the salvation of sinners. He describes the preaching of the Puritans (thoroughly biblical, unashamedly doctrinal, experimentally practical, holistically evangelistic, and studiously symmetrical), the primary methods of evangelism (plain preaching and catechetical evangelism), and the inward disposition of the Puritan evangelist (dependent on the Holy Spirit and prayerful).
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(In this rich, practical exposition of the Epistles of Joh...)
In this rich, practical exposition of the Epistles of John, Joel Beeke brings out the message of John's letters in their historical context as well as their timeless truths that are as applicable today as when John first wrote them. Travel through the Epistles of John and you will come to know the essence of the gospel, the glorious adoption of the children of God, the Christian's duties in this world, the believer's path to fullness of joy, and much more.
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Beeke, Joel Robert was born on December 9, 1952 in Kalamazoo. Son of John and Johanna Lucy (Van Strein) Beeke.
Student, Western Michigan University, 1973. Bachelor, Thomas A. Edison College. Master of Divinity, Netherlands Reformed Theological School, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 1978.
Doctor of Philosophy in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1988.
Pastor, The Netherlands Reformed Congregation, Sioux Center, Iowa., 1978-1981;
pastor, Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Church, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, 1981-1986;
pastor, Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, since 1986;
instructor theology, Netherlands Reformed Theological School, 1986-1992. Clerk The Netherlands Reformed Synod, 1980-1992. Vice president The Netherlands Reformed General Mission, 1980-1982.
President The Netherlands Reformed Book and Public, 1980-1993. Vice president The Netherlands Reformed Synodical Education, 1986-1993. President Interitance Publications, since 1987, Macedonia Mission Society, sermon division, 1990-1993.
Vice president Dutch Reformed Translation Society, since 1994. Lecturer Center for Urban Theological Studies, 1984-1986. Lecturer Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1985-1986, Adjunct Professor, since 1993.
President Stitching Studie der Nadere Reformatie, since 1992. President Reformation Heritage Books, since 1994. President, professor systematic theology and homiletics Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, since 1995.
Lecturer Westminster Theological Seminary, California, since 1995, The Puritan Project, Brazil, since 1995, Reformed Theological Seminary, since 1995.
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With United States Army, 1971-1974. Member Evangelical Theological Society, Society for Reformation Research, Calvin Studies Society, 16th Century Studies Conference Society, American Society Church History, Colloquium on Calvin Studies, Conference on Faith and History.
Married Mary Ann Kamp, August 21, 1989. Children: Calvin James, Esther Idelette, Lydia Ruth.