Wilderness: Family Worship in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy

by Joel R. Beeke, Nick Thompson

Lead your family through the Pentateuch with the next book in Dr. Joel Beeke’s Teach Your Children the Scriptures series.

Wilderness helps you engage your children in family worship in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. With a simple Review/Read/Reflect/Request format, your children will learn how God has always faithfully led His covenant people.

“Family worship is hard work for parents. Besides time, discipline, and perseverance, it takes thoughtful creativity with a good resource alongside the Bible. Beeke and Thompson have provided us with just that. Using four simple steps (review, read, reflect, request), the authors guide families through key passages in the books of Exodus through Deuteronomy, providing short but clear explanations and applications. I look forward to giving it a go with my family.”
— Jonny Gibson, associate professor of Old Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; author of Be Thou My A Liturgy for Daily Worship

286 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 23, 2023

About the author

Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is the chancellor and professor of homiletics and systematic theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor since 1978 and currently ministers at the Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the editor of the Puritan Reformed Journal and The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth magazine, the board chairman of Reformation Heritage Books, the president of Inheritance Publishers, and the vice president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society.

Beeke has written and coauthored 120 books, edited 120 books, and contributed 2,500 articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. He frequently lectures at seminaries and speaks at Reformed conferences around the world. The Lord has blessed him and his wife Mary with three children and eleven grandchildren.

Reviews

[Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent follow-up to Beginning: Family Worship in Genesis. This one takes the family through Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, helping to show what these books teach us about God and how they point to Christ. Each day is relatively brief but still goes deep. Some of it will go over the head of younger kids, but there is opportunity for all ages to learn and engage through the discussion questions.

[Gelu Timoficiuc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Invaluable. I appreciate how most lessons so naturally point to Christ in some way or other.
Would not recommend it with a child below 5. I read it as devotional with my 4 and half y.o. son and had to simplify most lessons. But will definitely go through it again some other time.

[Greg Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

We used this book, the second in this series, in our family devotional time after finishing the first one. It's also a great book for adult personal Bible study and devotion. I learned along with my children as well.