TIL 531: Keeping the Heart (feat. Joel Beeke)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
1. How did the Puritans think of keeping and cultivating the heart?
2. How are the spiritual disciplines are a means of grace for us?
3. What are the spiritual disciplines that have helped you the most?
4. What are some books from the puritans that you would recommend on this?
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| 0:00.0 | Keeping the Heart on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:15.5 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.3 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Dr. Joel Beakey. |
| 0:23.5 | He's a chancellor and professor of homiletics and systematic and practical theology at |
| 0:27.8 | Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. |
| 0:29.9 | He's a pastor of Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| 0:34.5 | He's the editor of Puritan Reformed Journal and Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth. |
| 0:39.4 | He's the board chairman of Reformation Heritage Books and a frequent speaker at reform conferences |
| 0:43.8 | around the world. He's authored, co-authored, and edited 250 books and has contributed |
| 0:49.5 | thousands of articles to reform books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. |
| 0:54.3 | Brother, we are so grateful for you to be here today and looking forward to you being with us |
| 0:58.3 | in October at our annual conference. |
| 1:00.4 | So thank you for being with us at the podcast. |
| 1:02.5 | My pleasure. |
| 1:03.3 | Now, I want to get into this concept of the heart. |
| 1:06.4 | And it's so interesting to me how detailed the Puritans thought about the heart, |
| 1:12.1 | how they talked about cultivating what was going on in the heart, |
| 1:16.0 | using the word to accomplish that by the spirit, and also keeping the heart. |
| 1:20.9 | I want you to tie together some ideas that we see from the Puritans that I see prevalent within them |
| 1:26.6 | is fearing the Lord, keeping the heart. |
| 1:28.9 | Help us to understand how they tied these concepts together. |
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