TIL 534: Puritans for Today (feat. Joel Beeke)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
1. What are some of the practical things we can learn from the puritans today?
2. How are the puritans different from the reformers?
3. How to begin reading the puritans?
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| 0:00.0 | Puritans for today on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:15.8 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.4 | This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with me, Dr. Joel Beakey. |
| 0:24.0 | He's the Chancellor and Professor of Homiletics and Systematic Practical Theology at Puritan Reform |
| 0:29.6 | Theological Seminary. |
| 0:30.9 | He's a pastor of the Heritage Reform Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| 0:35.9 | He's the editor of Puritan Reform |
| 0:37.6 | Journal and Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth. He's a board chairman of Reformation Heritage |
| 0:42.6 | Books and a frequent speaker at reform conferences around the world. He's authored, |
| 0:47.2 | co-authored, and edited 250 books and has contributed thousands of articles to reform books, |
| 0:53.1 | journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm so delighted and grateful to have Dr. Beakey on the podcast with me today, looking forward |
| 1:00.4 | to his time with us in October at our annual conference, which I'll speak more about at the end |
| 1:05.9 | of our time together. |
| 1:07.2 | Dr. Beakey, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:08.7 | We're so delighted to be with you today and to hear a good |
| 1:12.4 | word of encouragement about the Puritans and the wisdom that you have to offer about them. So welcome |
| 1:17.7 | to the podcast. Thank you, Dale. Great to be with you. Now, as I mentioned, Puritans for today. |
| 1:23.9 | Some people think about the Puritans and they think, man, their words are so lofty and I'm not |
| 1:28.0 | sure that I can obtain those things. But what value they have. They're in a unique time in history |
| 1:34.4 | as it relates to us in the counseling world. They're before modern psychology and before modern |
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