Feasting with Christ: Meditations on the Lord's Supper

by Joel R. Beeke

The book is structured in three parts so as to guide the believer through preparing for the Supper, partaking of the Supper, and reflecting on the Supper in a Christ-centered way.

Genres: Theology, Christian

176 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

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

[Hopson]

This devotional work is a collection of writings from Puritan authors on the Lord’s Supper. I found it to be very encouraging and helpful, especially to see how believers thought about the sacrament hundreds of years ago.

[Dylan Brady]

Lots of helpful stuff in here but lots of difficult and antiquated language to work through to get there.

[Christopher Keller]

A handy devotional guide to the Lord's Supper

[Peter Day]

This is such a helpful book. It is very easy in modern day evangelicalism to take a casual view of the Lord's Supper, whereby it simply becomes an empty ritual.

The series of meditations in this book open up the importance and blessing of breaking bread, as well as showing the wonder of Christ's atoning work for us.

Many of the meditations can also be adapted for use at Communion. This book is well worth a careful, reflective read.

[Josh]

Some real jewels here, but many of the gathered meditations, though good in themselves, are not specifically focused on the Lord's Supper, but the atonement. A great reference to go to the specific works in which the Puritans treat the Lord's Supper.