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

176 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

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

[Hopson · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[Christopher Keller · Rating 4 out of 5]

A handy devotional guide to the Lord's Supper

[Peter Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.