Equipping You In Grace

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Joey consider the place of lament and rest in grief, what to look for in sage, godly, and trustworthy friends, the local church and helping grieving people, and help for learning to process your grief biblically. What you'll hear in this episode The physical and spiritual component of grief. The importance of transparency in the Christian life. The place of lament in the Christian life. Learning to process your grief biblically. The place of the local church and helping grieving people. What to look for in safe, godly, and trustworthy friends. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via e

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Mark Jones discuss how the Puritans can help us recover a biblical and historical understanding of sin, indwelling sin, the means of grace, and our assurance in Christ. Additionally, they talk about his new book, Knowing Sin: Seeing A Neglected Doctrine Through the Eyes of the Puritans (Moody, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode How the Puritans can help us recover a biblical and historical understanding of sin. How the Puritans teaching on sin can help the average Christian. The importance of Christians understanding what indwelling sin is today in their Christian life. How can Christians speak to the self-help culture of our day. The means of grace and our assurance. Hat sins do Christians tend to struggle with the most and why. The difference between inward and outward temptations. What are the sins of omission and commission, and why is it important to understand both. How a right understanding of God’s grace helps Christians grow in

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Doreen give four biblical reasons to avoid the Passion Translation and why the Passion Translation is at the heart of the New Apostolic Reformation. They also offer help to those coming out of the New Apostolic Reformation and those ministering to people in the New Apostolic Reformation. What you'll hear in this episode Avoiding the Passion and the NAR Why biblical Christians do not believe apostles and prophets are for today. The difference between the Passion Translation and the English Standard Version. Why “women pastors” are in rebellion against the Lord. The biblical design for men and women in the Church. The purpose of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian. Why the Passion Translation is at the heart of the New Apostolic Reformation. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please co

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Mark Talbot discuss the story of Scripture, the problem of evil, and our suffering, the place of biblical theology in the Christian life, and his new book, Give Me Understanding That I May Live: Situating Our Suffering within God's Redemptive Plan (Suffering and the Christian Life, v.2, Crossway, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode The story of Scripture, the problem of evil, and our suffering. Biblical theology and the story of our lives. How understanding our first parents disobedience helps us understand what life was supposed to be like in Eden. How the Creation story helps us counter false assumptions about the Lord and ourselves. How suffering challenges us to cast doubt on the stories we’ve previously believed to be true. Why understanding creation and rebellion is critical to the Christian story. How the full Christian story can encourage us in our own suffering. About Today's Guest Mark Talbot (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) i

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave shares about his dad’s dementia and his mom’s Alzheimer’s and considers availing of the means of grace personally and at your local church, along with advice on caring for your family member with memory loss. What you'll hear in this episode See the family member or friend as a person made in the image of God. Have a solid support system at church and with good friends who are willing to listen and pray for you. Be sitting under the ministry of the Word in a healthy local church where your pastor preaches verse-by-verse sermons. Share openly with your spouse about your pain and struggles. Share openly with your pastor or pastors about what is going on with your parents. Give yourself some grace. Be involved in the care of your family member. Ask lots of questions. Understand that there will be lots of days where you may be frustrated and that crying isn’t bad. Take your cares to the Lord. Draw near to the Lord. Avail yourself of the means of God

On today’s Equipping You in Grace, Dave, and Bryan Chapell discuss the doctrine of vocation and the Christian, connecting Sunday to Monday, dealing with frustration at work, and his new book, Grace At Work Redeeming the Grind and the Glory of Your Job (Crossway, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode What the doctrine is and why it is important for the Christian. How Sunday worship connects to Monday through Friday. How we can glorify God in the daily work He has given us. How our work contributes to the good of society and why it is important that we work hard at our job. How we should respond to difficulties with our boss as Christians at work. How the theology of the cross relates to our work. Dealing with difficulty with fellow coworkers. About Today's Guest Bryan Chapell is a bestselling author of many books, including Christ-Centered Preaching and Holiness by Grace. He is pastor emeritus of the historic Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois; president emeritus of Covenant Th

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the nature and purpose of Christian friendship and why real Christian friends tell each other hard biblical truths, comfort one another in love with Scripture, and do life with one another through every stage of life. What you'll hear in this episode The nature and purpose of real Christian friendship. Why real Christian friends walk with one another through all of life. Why real Christian friends tell you hard biblical truths in love. Why real Christian friends continue to do life with one another through every stage of life. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share y

On today’s Equipping You in Grace, Dave, and Sean DeMars discuss the core tenets and dangers of the prosperity gospel, biblical hermeneutics, the importance of Bible-believing and gospel-preaching local church, along with his book with Mike McKinley, Health, Wealth, and the Real Gospel: The Prosperity Gospel Meets Scripture (Christian Focus, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode The purpose of money and stewardship. The importance of a good Bible-believing and gospel-preaching local church. How Sean got into the prosperity gospel and how he got out of the prosperity gospel. What the prosperity gospel is and its dangers. Engaging in biblical hermeneutics. The core tenets of the prosperity gospel. How biblically minded and informed Christians can counter the prosperity gospel. The dangers of TBN and why Christians should avoid it. How we should relate to friends and family members who claim to believe the true gospel but are captivated by the prosperity gospel. The danger of rejecting th

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers current statistics on biblical worldview and illiteracy, correcting opponents of the faith with gentleness, and why loving the Lord and others should lead to speaking out against false teaching. What you'll hear in this episode Statistics on biblical worldview and biblical literacy. The Bible and our approach to apologetics. Why our understanding of the doctrine of Scripture is so vital to contend for the faith. Why Christians are to expose darkness and to shine the light of Scripture. Standing on the Word and the fruits of the Spirit. Correcting opponents of the faith with gentleness. Why loving the Lord and others should lead to speaking out against false teaching. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Neil Shenvi discuss helping people with the problem of evil, why our approach to apologetics should be rooted in Christ, and his book, Why Believe: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity (Crossway, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode How reading the Gospels can help us understand who Jesus is, what He came to do, and His mission for His people. Help young people struggling through the issue of the problem of evil. Presenting our arguments in a biblically faithful way and responsibility pointing people to Christ. Why our arguments for God should lead to wonder of God. Cultural relativism and how Christians should respond to it. Advice for the people facing suffering. The purpose of suffering and the Bible’s answers to our suffering. The gospel and our approach to apologetics. Why it’s important to examine our biblical worldview from God’s Word. About Today's Guest Neil Shenvi (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) has worked as a resea

On today’s Equipping You in Grace, Dave considers loving biblical truth and communicating the truth in love, the Holy Spirit, and the fruits of the Spirit, saying hard biblical truth in love, correcting opponents with gentleness, and why we need one another in our local churches to speak the truth in love. What you'll hear in this episode Loving biblical truth and loving people with the truth with the grace of God. Why loving sound doctrine leads to loving people with the truth of God’s Word. The fruits of the Holy Spirit and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian. Why both the content of our speech and how it is presented matters. Self-control and the Holy Spirit's work in the Christian's life. Learning to say hard biblical truths in love. Correcting opponents with gentleness. Why we need one another in the Body of Christ to help us grow in speaking the truth in love. Why ministry leaders are to lead the way and be examples of speaking the truth in love. Subscribing

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Erwin Lutzer discuss the influence of cultural Marxism in our culture, politics, and a biblical worldview, how Christians should respond to a toxic culture, along with his book, We Will Not Be Silent: Responding Courageously to Our Culture’s Assault on Christianity (Harvest House, 202). What you’ll hear in this episode The influence of CRT and intersectionality in our education system and culture. Cultural Marxism and how it is gaining a foothold in the United States. Why behind our political views are people’s worldview. Why rewriting history has to do with a secularist agenda. The response of Christians to a toxic culture. What the Church’s response should be to censorship. Why the arguments against free speech are the same ones used by Communists during their reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe. Why gender roles are a demarcation point for the church. The best response of the Church to radical homosexuality. About Today's Guest

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Doreen discuss the dangers of the Enneagram, why Christians should not engage it, along with the dangers of blending Christianity with New Age and Eastern Mysticism, and a new conference, The Enneagram: What’s True, What’s False, and Does it Matter? Put on by Midwest Outreach and InGrace! and produced by American Gospel. For more information on scheduling and the speakers, please go to: https://midwestoutreach.org/enneagram-conference/ What you’ll hear in this episode The state of Christian publishing and the enneagram. The dangers of the enneagram. Why Christians should not engage in the enneagram. The dangers of blending Christianity with the New Age and Eastern Mysticism. The dangers of worldliness and false teaching. About Today's Guest Raised in Christian Science, Doreen Virtue was formerly the top-selling New Age author at the world’s largest New Age publisher, until Jesus opened her eyes to the gospel. She got baptized for the first time,

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Katie discuss the sufficiency of God’s grace for every day, memorizing Scripture, suffering, and our view of God. We also explore comforting ourselves and others with God’s grace and her book, He Will Be Enough How God Takes You by the Hand Through Your Hardest Days (The Good Book Company, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode Seeing God’s grace in everyday situations. How the sufficiency of God’s grace helps us on hard days. Why we can lean into hard days and hard situations by trusting the Lord. Why we can walk through our trials and the limits God sets for us show off the power of the resurrected Savior in our lives. Growing through trials with God’s help. Why suffering reveals what we think about God. Why waiting is so hard for us as Christians. How our hardest days help us give comfort to others in their hard days. How the faithfulness of God helps us in our hardest days. Memorizing Scripture amid suffering. About the Guest Katie

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and David Schrock discuss our response to conflict in our lives and the Church, the seriousness of plagiarism in writing and preaching, growing in the craft of preaching, how to approach sermons and critique them, along with his book, Brothers, We Are Not Plagiarists (Founders Press, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode What our response should be to conflicts in our lives and the Church. The seriousness of plagiarism in the church. Why the call to preach is a call to study. In what way does plagiarism dishonor God and harm the church. The dangers of speaking well and how that contrasts well with elders' qualifications to be apt to teach. Why plagiarism is a form of pragmatism. How to avoid plagiarism in preaching or writing. How Pastors can encourage their congregations to handle the Word of God well. Why pastors should preach expository sermons week in and week out. How to listen to sermons and critique them. About the Guest David S. Sc

On today’s Equipping You in Grace, Dave and Doreen consider how our belief in and understanding of Scripture impacts what we do with the Bible, the difference between dynamic translations and paraphrases, and comparing Scripture to the message. What you'll hear in this episode Why our belief in and understanding of the Bible will impact how we apply it to our lives. Correct handling of Scripture matters. How theological committees translated the Bible. The Difference Between Dynamic Translations and Paraphrases. History of the Message. Comparing Scripture to the Message. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feed

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Josh Moody discuss union with Christ, legalism, growing in and serving Christ, the countercultural message of holiness, and his book, Everyday Holiness: Becoming Who You Were Made to Be (Christian Focus, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode Union with Christ and the Christian life. The dangers of legalism and how it attacks holiness. What mortification means and why it matters for every Christian. David Brooks and Jordan Peterson on character development and a Christian response to both. Knowing Christ and serving Christ in all of life. How the message of holiness rooted in Scripture is counterculture to the self promoted today. About the Guest Josh Moody (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Senior Pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, and president and founder of God-Centered Life Ministries. His books include Burning Hearts: Preaching to the Affections, How the Bible Can Change Your Life, How Church Can Change Your Life, and Boasting.

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers what abortion is, the biblical case for life, statistics on abortion, why and how Christians should speak about moral and ethical issues, how the Church can be about life, and ministering to those facing or who have had an abortion. What you'll hear in this episode What is an Abortion? The Biblical case for life. Statistics on Abortion. Why and how Christians should speak out about moral and ethical issues. Helping the Church Be About Life. Ministering To Those Facing an Abortion. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback. Thanks for listening to this

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Natasha Crain discuss what a biblical worldview is, the popularity, and dangers of deconstruction, and how we should respond to a cancel culture, along with her book, Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture (Harvest House, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode The dangers of critical race theory. Biblical justice and what it means. Why American Christians are really a minority in America. The danger of syncretism. The authority of self versus the authority of God’s Word. The dangers of “progressive Christianity.” Why the Church has good answers from the Bible and the history of the Church. The danger of deconstructing one’s faith and why it is so popular. How local church members can do better about people asking questions and help them. How Christians should respond to cancel culture. Why Christians should speak the truth in love and what that looks like in our climate Encouragement for Christians disco

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers how the New Testament Church dealt with conflict, why Christians should move toward one another in conflict not away from one another, how to confront one another in love, and why every Christian should seek peace with fellow Christians. What you'll hear in this episode How the New Testament Church dealt with conflict. The works of the flesh versus the works of the Holy Spirit. Conflict and taking our thoughts captive to the Word of God. Why every Christian should seek peace with fellow Christians. Why we are to move toward one another as Christians not away from each other. Addressing conflict in our own lives before we address it in others' lives. The way to confront one another in love. Why conflict gives the gospel an opportunity to shine. Conflict and spiritual warfare. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what yo