{"id":3373,"date":"2011-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banneroftruth.co\/us\/resources\/articles\/2011\/books-that-have-helped-joel-beeke-the-best"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T10:44:32","slug":"books-that-have-helped-joel-beeke-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.banneroftruth.org\/uk\/resources\/articles\/2011\/books-that-have-helped-joel-beeke-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Books that have Helped Joel Beeke the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Joel Beeke, what three books have been most helpful to you as a Christian and as a minister?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The first book that comes to mind is the <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.banneroftruth.org\/uk\/store\/letters\/letters-of-samuel-rutherford\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i><b>Letters of Samuel Rutherford<\/b><\/i><\/a>, which I kept on my nightstand for decades. Whenever I was discouraged, I would sweeten my mind with a morsel of Rutherford before I went to sleep. His way of taking his afflictions to Christ to end in him is a medicine that I have needed a thousand times over. Second, <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.banneroftruth.org\/uk\/store\/christian-living\/pilgrims-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i><b>Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/b><\/i><\/a> has had a profound effect on me since childhood, when my father used to read part of it every Sunday evening after church. After I was converted in my late teens, I would ask him numerous questions about the various characters in this amazing allegory. The many spiritual lessons that I learned from Dad&#8217;s answers, and from my later study of this justly famous book, I simply cannot put into words. Tied for third place are Thomas Goodwin&#8217;s <i>Christ Our Mediator<\/i>, which first moved me as a seventeen-year-old convert to taste more of the beauty and fulness of Christ than I had known before, and Friedrich W. Krummacher&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.banneroftruth.org\/uk\/store\/devotionalsdaily-readings\/the-suffering-saviour\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i><b>The Suffering Saviour<\/b><\/i><\/a>, which I read for the first time as an eighteen-year-old soldier on active duty in Fayetteville, North Carolina, during a two-week summer camp. Both of these books enlarged my experiential acquaintance of what my Saviour has done for me by dying in my place for my sins.<\/p>\n<p>Then three more as a minister. Wilhelmus \u00c3\u00a0 Brakel&#8217;s <i>The Christian&#8217;s Reasonable Service<\/i> (4 volumes) has provided me with great assistance in pastoral ministry. The applications at the end of each chapter are priceless. I was sorry when the six-year process of editing this invaluable set of books was complete. Second, Calvin&#8217;s <i>Institutes<\/i> and commentaries have been a constant source of instruction and edification for me. Finally, Charles Bridge&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.banneroftruth.org\/uk\/store\/church-ministry\/the-christian-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i><b>The Christian Ministry<\/b><\/i><\/a> has instructed me and moved me more than any other book on homiletics and ministry. I believe that this volume is the best one volume work ever written on the overall task of the ministry of the Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Beeke, what three books have been most helpful to you as a Christian and as a minister? The first book that comes to mind is the Letters of Samuel Rutherford, which I kept on my nightstand for decades. 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