This book contains guidance on two important areas of family life. First, it explains how we should prepare our families for public worship. Second, it addresses the subject of prayer meetings, their importance and the scriptural warrant for them. Dr. Beeke's approach involves a sketch of the past uses of such practices and a detailed exposition, in such a way, that the reader can apply it to everyday living. This book will help a family focus the Sabbath wherein it can truly be a delight to the soul.

THIS BOOK IS COMPRISED OF FAMILY WORSHIP THOUGHTS EXTRACTED FROM THE REFORMATION HERITAGE STUDY BIBLE.

Leading and nurturing your family as you seek to glorify God and encourage spiritual growth in your home is both God's command and your privilege. One of the best and most effective ways to do this is through intentional, worshipful, daily family devotions where the truths of God's life-changing Word are openly discussed chapter by chapter.

Hand in hand with your Bible, this Family Worship Bible Guide presents rich devotional thoughts on all 1,189 chapters in the Bible, including searching questions to promote conversation, to help you with this responsibility. Use this resource every day alongside Scripture to read each chapter's major takeaways aloud and then discuss them with your family. With the Holy Spirit's blessing, this book will transform you and your family

The Puritans believed that godly marriages were foundational for the future life of families, churches, and nations. Therefore, they wrote prolifically on the subject of marriage, seeking to bring biblical reformation to this subject in a comprehensive way. Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other previous Reformers had begun this task, but the Puritans took it much further, writing a number of detailed treatises on how to live as godly spouses.

Out of the wealth of material available to us from the seventeenth century, Joel R. Beeke and James A. La Belle have gathered together insights from the past and summarized them in a contemporary form in order to encourage modern day coupled to glorify God in marriage.

Christians are counter-cultural: our primary goal should not be to raise intelligent, successful, competent, and upright citizens, our primary concern ought to be for the good of our children's souls - and so for God's glory.

Teaching our children the Scriptures in a compelling, relevant, and holistic manner during daily family worship is one of the chief means we can achieve this. If you need help to do that - this is the series for you It's a comprehensive guide for the entire family and particularly children between the ages of 5-12.

Using a unique Review/Read/Reflect/Request format, family worship has never been so fulfilling.

Table of Contents:

PART I: THE BEGINNING OF A WORLD (GENESIS 1-2)

1. In the Beginning, God

2. Our Triune Creator

3. The Light We See

4. The Air We Breathe

5. The Earth Beneath Our Feet

6. The Great Lights Above Us

7. The Animals We Love

8. Reflectors of God's Glory

9. Kings Over God's Creation

10. Rest from Our Labors

11. Clay in the Potter's Hands

12. Priests in God's House

13. The Choice of Life or Death

14. The First Marriage

15. Naked and Unashamed

PART II: THE BEGINNING OF A WAR (GENESIS 3-11)

16. Our Ancient Foe

17. Our Tragic Fall

18. Our Death in Adam

19. It's Not My Fault

20. A Promise of War

21. Our Pain in the Present

22. Clothed by Grace

23. Kicked Out of Eden

24. Family Bloodshed

25. God's Promise Will Stand

26. Death is Not the Final Word

27. A Faith that Longs

28. Only Evil Continually

29. Judgement or Salvation

30. God's Saving Provision

31. God Shut the Door

32. Floodwaters of Judgment

33. Remembered by God

34. A Sweet-Smelling Sacrifice

35. A New Adam

36. Redemption's Stage

37. A Bow in the Clouds

38. Noah's Failure

39. The God of Shem

40. A Troublesome Tower

PART III: THE BEGINNING OF A NATION (GENESIS 12-50)

41. Love Toward the Unlovely

42. A Blessed Trunk

43. A Believing Pilgrim

44. Famine in the Land

45. Lift Up Your Eyes

46. God Most High

47. A Faith that Justifies

48. A Covenant is Cut

49. Man-Made Salvation

50. The God Who Sees Me

51. Father of a Great Multitude

52. Blessing Via Curse

53. Unto You and Your Children

54. Help My Unbelief

55. God with Us

56. The Just Judge of All the Earth

57. Escape for Your Life

58. Delivered Yet Again

59. Unto Us a Child is Born

60. The Greatest Trial

61. A Ram Provided

62. A Permanent Inheritance

63. God's Angel Will Go Before You

64. God Provides Once More

65. Finishing in Faith

66. Two Sons, Two Nations

67. Despising the Birthright

68. Like Father, Like Son

69. Deceived into Blessing

70. God's Staircase

71. Humility Comes Hard

72. A Nation is Born

73. From Laban to Canaan

74. Wrestling with God

75. Brothers Reunited

76. A New Beginning

77. Funerals in the Promised Land

78. A Prince Among Brothers

79. From Royalty to Rags

80. Grace Breaking Through

81. A Dark Providence

82. Dreams from a Dungeon

83. Exalted by God

84. At Their Brother's Feet

85. To Egypt Again

86. A Silver Cup, A Solemn Test

87. I Am Joseph

88. Your Son is Alive

89. Blessed Through Joseph

90. Our Home is Not in Egypt

91. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah

92. Finishing in Hope

Appendix: Remember: Bible and Catechetical Memorization During Family Worship

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.

In Taking Hold of God, you will enter the treasury of the church of Jesus Christ and discover some of its most valuable gems on the subject of Christian prayer. The writings of the Reformers and Puritans shine with the glory of God in Christ, offering us much wisdom and insight today that can make our own prayer lives more informed, more extensive, more fervent, and more effectual. Six contemporary scholars explore the writings and prayer lives of several Reformers and Puritans--among them Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Perkins, Matthew Henry, and Jonathan Edwards--guiding us to growth in prayer and a more grateful communion with God.

Table of Contents:

BIBLICAL STUDIES

1. The Age of the Spirit and Revival

2. Trust in the Incarnate Word

3. Our Glorious Adoption: Trinitarian-Based and Transformed Relationships

4. Paul and James: Are We Justified by Faith or by Faith and Works?

5. Gethsemane's King-Lamb: A Sermon on John 18:7-8, 12-13a

6. The Man of Sin: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

7. Delighting in God: A Guide to Sabbath-Keeping

SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

8. God-Centered Theology in the Ministry of the Word

9. Calvin on Sovereignty, Providence, and Predestination

10. Reading the Puritans

11. Godefridus Udemans: Life, Influence, and Writings

12. John Bunyan on Justification

13. Reformed Orthodoxy in North America

14. The Perspicuity of Scripture

15. Laurence Chaderton: His Life and Ecclesiology

16. Natural Theology: Some Historical Perspective

EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY

17. Calvin as an Experiential Preacher

18. The Puritans on Conscience and Casuistry

19. Assurance of Salvation: The Insights of Anthony Burgess

20. Wilhelmus Brakel's Biblical Ethics of Spirituality

21. Images of Union and Communion with Christ

PRACTICAL THEOLOGY

22. Puritans on the Family: Recent Publications

23. Consider Christ in Affliction: An Open Letter to True Believers

24. Learning from the Puritans on Being Salt and Light

25. Puritans on Marital Love

PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS

26. God-Centered Adult Education

27. Plain Preaching Demonstrating the Spirit and His Power

28. How to Evaluate Your Sermons

29. Practical Application in Preaching

30. Authentic Ministry: Servanthood, Tears, and Temptations

31. Children in the Church

32. The Minister's Helpmeet

33. Unprofessional Puritans and Professional Pastors: What the Puritans Would Say to Modern Pastors

34. Catechism Preaching

35. A Life in the Word

36. Why You and Your Family Should Go to Church: Biblical Answers to Churchless Christianity

CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES

37. Interview with Joel Beeke about Reformed Churches and Seminaries

38. Handling Error in the Church: Martin Downes Interviewing Joel R. Beeke

39. Practical Lessons for Today from the Life of Idelette Calvin

40. Rediscovering the Laity: The Reformation in the Pew and in the Classroom

41. In Commemoration of the Heidelberg Catechism's 450th Anniversary: The Catechism as a Confession of Faith

42. How to Battle Hostility and Secularism

43. Busy but Fruitful: How to Manage Time

44. Nurturing Intimate Communication with Your Spouse

The Reformation did not happen instantaneously;it was something God patiently arranged over a number of years. As you read this book, you will learn how the Lord used some people to plant the seeds of church reform long before October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther published his ninety-five theses. Luther's story is well-known;we trust you will find it interesting and instructive to read about him and about forty others (John Knox, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Zacharias Ursinus, Willem Teellinck, etc.) who contributed to the Reformation - some well known and others not so - most of whom are Reformation heroes.

To provide a more full picture of the many sided Reformation, chapters are also included on the Anabaptist and Counter Reformation movements. The book concludes with a brief summary of the influence of the Reformation in different areas of life.

Age Range 4 to 7 years

Full color illustrated books for children

See how Caleb learns that faith in God results in hating our sin.

Caleb and Sophie are your average kids - curious about their world, taught about the character and expectations of God, and wanting to be faithful in what they do.

In each of these books the concepts of faith, hope, love, and love for others is distilled down to simple forms and then introduced in ways a child will understand - conversation, prayer, actions, and thoughts.

Sophie and Caleb react in ways that you would expect in a child - with simple faith and the sort of fruit of the Spirit you expect in young children.

Can any good come from thinking about death? Our natural tendency is to answer that question no But what if our meditation on death was informed by a theological understanding of death, a recognition of the comfort Jesus's death affords Christians, and ethical guidance for dealing with death in these complicated days of modern medical developments? Rather than being morbidly unhelpful, authors Joel R. Beeke and Christopher W. Bogosh contend that meditating on dying and death can be profitable, even necessary, for us. Are you prepared to say that your death will be gain (Phil. 1:21)?

Have you ever asked Why did God allow Adam and Eve to sin? Why did he create mosquitoes? What is God's plan for me? Sometimes we have really tough questions. We wonder if there is anyone who can give us an answer. Some questions are about life, some are about death - some of them are even about God. How can we get answers to questions about God and the Bible? Well - one way is to read the Bible - the Word of God. Joel Beeke helps us by taking our questions about life, death, sin, salvation and many other topics we can find confusing and teaching us what God says in his Word. Sometimes we have tough questions, sometimes we don't get the answers we want or expect, but the Word of God is faithful and we can trust that what we need to know, God will reveal to us.

Children from a variety of backgrounds have come up with the questions in this book and Joel Beeke has done his best to answer these in the light of God's Word. These are real questions from real children in real life situations - and a real pastor with a genuine concern for their souls takes them to the one true God and the real gospel.