Developing Healthy Spiritual Growth

Author Joel Beeke

ISBN 9780852349472

Pages 144

Joel Beeke is increasingly recognised as the leading 'doctor of the soul,' skillfully applying accurately exegeted biblical texts and combining them with his vast store of Puritan knowledge. All of this is applied with a rare warmth and accessibility.

Contents :-

Spiritual Growth in Knowledge

Grow in knowledge of the Son Grow in knowledge of the Holy Spirit, Grow in knowledge of the Father

Spiritual Growth in Practice

Growing in Christ's pattern

Growing in pleasing God

Growing in spiritual fruitfulness

Spiritual Growth in Experience

Grow in the experience of God's power

Grow in the experience of gratitude

No one I know has a greater command of teaching practical godliness and experiential Christianity than Joel Beeke. Drawing upon Paul's prayer for the believers in Colossae, Beeke utilizes his exceptional exegetical abilities to lay open this text of Scripture, showing its primary relevance for the daily life of every believer. In so doing, this work will promote greater growth in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ and deepen your spiritual life so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord (Col. 1:10). This book should be a staple in your personal library regarding what constitutes genuine growth in biblical, reformed spirituality.

Dr. Steven J. Lawson, Senior Pastor, Christ Fellowship Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama

Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, editor of Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. His Ph.D. is in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology from Westminster Theological Seminary.