407: How To Lead Your Family With Dr. Joel Beeke

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dr. Joel R. Beeke is a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, editor of Puritan Reformed Journal and Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society.

He has written and co-authored over one hundred books (most recently, Reformed Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: Revelation and God, Reformed Preaching, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life; Knowing and Growing in Assurance of Faith; Prepared by Grace, for Grace: The Puritans on God’s Ordinary Way of Leading Sinners to Christ; and Debated Issues in Sovereign Predestination), edited another one hundred books, and contributed 2,500 articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias.

His PhD is in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). He is frequently called upon to lecture at seminaries and to speak at Reformed conferences around the world. He and his wife Mary have been blessed with three children and 9 grandchildren.

Website - https://joelbeeke.org
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/joelbeeke/
Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctrine-for-life/id1681912766
"How to Lead Your Family" by Joel Beeke - https://amzn.to/3IebEWW
"Teach Them to Work" by Mary Beeke - https://amzn.to/4eEoM3B

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0:00.0	On the day of judgment, your wife can look at you and say, Lord Jesus, this man, because I was married to this man, he washed me by the water of the word, our entire marriage, and he helped prepare me by the grace of the Holy Spirit to meet thee this day, more godly than I ever would have if I hadn't met him.
0:20.0	But the children should be
0:21.1	able to say the same thing. Because of my dad, my life was changed because he led me in the
0:27.9	green pastures of the word. And how do you discipline? Well, do you spank your children?
0:34.7	Well, folks, I thoroughly enjoyed being able to speak with Dr. Joel Beakey,
0:39.5	who's the author of numerous books, I think over 100, he said. But the one we talked about
0:45.2	primarily today was how to lead your family, a guide for men wanting to be more. I'll admit,
0:53.1	the cover got me. I saw this come across my feet on
0:56.5	Amazon, I think. I thought, yeah, I want I want to be more and I want to know how to lead my
1:02.0	family better. And I really admire Joel Beakey, Dr. Joel Beakey and I really appreciate his,
1:08.0	I guess the work that he's done for the church and for the family. So I'm really grateful that I get to share this conversation with you.
1:14.6	Katie, do you have any comments to share?
1:16.4	Well, actually, I've got a couple things.
1:18.6	Go ahead.
1:18.9	Okay, all I can say is I really, I haven't read this book, but I really appreciate the bekeys in general.
1:23.7	His wife's book, Teach Them to Work, is a phenomenal book, and I highly recommend that one as well.
1:29.8	It is very eye-opening and convicting.
1:34.3	And it's obviously, it's about teaching our children to work, but my takeaway is it's just good for all of us to work.
1:41.4	Yeah.
1:42.1	Anyways, I think you guys will really enjoy that as well.
1:44.9	I didn't know.
1:45.8	He'd written so many books, though.
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