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 22, 2023

About the author

Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology, Church History, and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has been in the ministry since 1978 and has served as a pastor of his current church, Heritage Reformed Congregation, since 1986. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited fifty books and contributed over fifteen hundred articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He is frequently called upon to lecture at Reformed seminaries and to speak at conferences around the world. He and his wife, Mary, have three children: Calvin, Esther, and Lydia.

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.