How Should We Consider Christ in Affliction?
(Cultivating Biblical Godliness)
Hebrews 3:1 and 12:3 tell us that the most effective means for enduring affliction is to consider Christ, the fountainhead of all vital Christianity. But how, you ask, and in what ways must I consider Him? In this booklet, Joel R. Beeke shows how our consideration of the passion, power, presence, patience and perseverance, prayers, plenitude, preciousness, promises, purposes, and plan of Christ provide strength for living through and profiting from the deepest sorrows of this world. Seek grace to live Christianly today in and through your afflictions, and you will soon discover with the apostle, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21).
- Opening Credits
- How Should We Consider Christ in Affliction?
- Closing Credits
Joel R. Beeke
Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as a minister at the Heritage Reformed Congregation located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He also holds the positions of editor for the Puritan Reformed Journal and the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth. In addition, Dr. Beeke is the editorial director for Reformation Heritage Books, the president of Inheritance Publishers, and the vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society.
Perhaps best-known of Dr. Beeke’s esteemed academic positions, however, is with Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, where he served the Body of Christ from the school’s founding in 1995 through 2023, when he then moved to the position of Chancellor, as well as teaching Systematic Theology and Homiletics as a beloved professor.
An expert on the Puritans, Joel Beeke was honored with a Fetschrift entitled Puritan Piety: Writings in Honor of Joel R. Beeke.