#128 - How to Lead Your Home with Dr. Joel Beeke
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
5.0 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
- How to Lead Your Family — Joel R. Beeke
- Family Worship — Joel R. Beeke
- Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace — Joel R. Beeke
- The Family at Church — Joel R. Beeke
- How Should Teens Read the Bible? — Joel R. Beeke
- Family Worship Bible Guide — Joel R. Beeke et al.
- Heidelberg Catechism (Q. 32 – On Christ’s Threefold Office)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast, a podcast dedicated to equipping |
| 0:15.1 | and encouraging parents to do the critically important and mostly ordinary work of leading |
| 0:19.0 | our families to follow Jesus. |
| 0:20.9 | And we are now posting every other Monday all year long. |
| 0:24.7 | This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with a fantastic guest, a man that I've gotten to receive |
| 0:30.0 | from very recently at a conference, but also have read a lot of his work over the years. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm very excited to introduce you to him if this is your first time |
| 0:37.6 | meeting him. But Dr. Joel Beakey, thank you so much for joining us today on the Family Discipleship podcast. Great to be with you, Adam. Well, for those of you who aren't familiar with Dr. Beakey, or Dr. Beakey, would you mind maybe telling us a little about you? Tell us about your family. tell us about your ministry. Yeah, okay. I'm a husband of the world's |
| 0:57.7 | most wonderful woman, Mary. I love my wife like crazy. We're blessed with three wonderful |
| 1:04.1 | children and they all have blessed marriages. So we're loaded with blessings, and we have 11 precious grandchildren. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm also a pastor in the Heritage Reform Churches, and I've been in my present charge for |
| 1:22.5 | 39 years. Wow. And started ministering, I was ordained, I guess it's now 48 years ago. |
| 1:31.6 | I served a church in Iowa and one in New Jersey. |
| 1:35.2 | And now I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the last almost four decades. |
| 1:40.1 | But my main role in my work is I've been president of the seminary, |
| 1:46.1 | Peeratrain Farm Seminary in Grand Rapids for, I don't know, 28, 29 years. |
| 1:51.9 | I told him I would serve as president until I was 70, and I'm now 72. |
| 1:57.4 | Two years ago, they appointed the vice president, Dr. Neely, Adrian Neely, to be president. |
| 2:05.4 | I'm now chancellor, but I'm still a full-time professor here, and just love the work here. |
| 2:12.6 | And so we've grown. I was the founder of the seminary with my denomination |
| 2:17.5 | with four students in 1993. |
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