Equipping You In Grace

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers some marks of a healthy local church, what to look for and avoid in a local church, and why local churches should be firmly grounded in and shaped by the Word of God. What you'll hear in this episode What a healthy local church is and what you should look for. The importance of expository sermons in the local church. Things to avoid when looking for a church. The difference between essential doctrine and preference matters in a local church. Why local churches should be grounded firmly in and shaped by the Word and the gospel. 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 shar

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Robert Jones discuss the nature and work of biblical counseling, addressing our emotions in a biblical way, spiritual warfare, and biblical counseling, along with his book, The Gospel for Disordered Lives (B&H, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode The nature of Christ-centered biblical counseling. Who can and should do biblical counseling. The primacy of local church biblical counseling. How the gospel helps us address guilt, repentance, and forgiveness in our lives. Biblical counseling and spiritual warfare. The danger of saying more than the Bible does about spiritual warfare. Some principles of Christ-centered change. Spiritual warfare and union with Christ. The three commitments of a biblical counselor. Some keys to help those with anger, resentment, and bitterness. Some keys to helping people deal with worry, anxiety, and fear. Some keys to helping people with grief. Some keys to helping people with pornography

n today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Aimee Joseph discuss why our decisions reveal our spiritual maturity, the role of Christian friends and decision-making, the local church, accountability, and finding godly friends, Demystifying Decision Making: A Practical Guide (Crossway, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode Why the more complicated the situation, the more counsel we need. Why our decisions reveal our spiritual maturity. How has the proper expectations, gathering the right information, and inviting others into our decision-making process helps us as Christians. How John’s Frame’s trisperspectivalism helps us make decisions. Addressing our fear in our decisions and the finished and sufficient work of Jesus. How to properly receive compliments and give God glory. Advice for those who have made a big decision but now wonder if it’s the right one. The role Christian friends should play in helping us making decisions. The local church, accountability, and findin

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Aimee Joseph discuss the danger of a New Age approach to decision making, biblical worldview and a framework for biblical decisions, the prescriptive and descriptive will of God, along with her book, Demystifying Decision Making: A Practical Guide (Crossway, 2022). What you’ll hear in this episode The danger of a New Age approach to decision making. How our worldview influences the way, we approach decisions. How our worldview provides a framework to see, understand, and process the world. Three points to better understand God’s will. What the prescriptive and descriptive will of God mean and why they are important for the Christian. How the gauges of culture, idolatry, desire, and urgency affect our decision-making process. About the Guest Aimee Joseph has spent many years directing women’s discipleship and ministry at Redeemer Presbyterian Church and in Campus Outreach San Diego. She and her husband are currently in the pr

On today's Equipping You in Grace, Dave considers the place of open dialogue and discussion in church history, what a biblical understanding of speech means and entails, and the dangers of the cancel culture and how it has infiltrated the Church. What you'll hear in this episode • The place of open dialogue and discussion in the church history. • What a true and biblical understanding of speech and communication means and entails. • What true Christian tolerance looks likes and entails. • The dangers of the cancel culture and how it has infiltrated the Church. • What loving God and loving others entails working through issues together. • Why Christians are for free speech and religious liberty. 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 fin

On today’s Equipping You in Grace episode, Dave and Doreen Virtue discuss the danger of syncretism, the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, lawless living and legalism, Christian obedience, the providence of God, and the danger of yoga and the enneagram. What You’ll Hear in This Episode Humility and teachableness from God’s Word. The danger of syncretism and blending Christian theology with secular and worldly philosophies and religions. The authority and sufficiency of Scripture and the Christian. The difference of godly repentance versus worldly difference. The danger of lawless living and legalism. The nature of real Christian obedience. The meaning of Christian providence and its importance in our Christian lives. Advice for sharing the gospel to those in the New Age. The danger of yoga and the enneagram for Christians. Recommended Resources Discussed in this Episode Former Yoga Instructors now Christians Warning about Yoga on Doreen’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak

On today’s episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave discusses statistics on sex trafficking, the relationship between pornography and sex trafficking, and what can be done about sex trafficking, a biblical view of man, and the gospel and sexual sin. What you’ll hear in this episode Statistics on sex trafficking. The relationship between pornography and sex trafficking. What can be done about sex trafficking. A biblical view of man. The Gospel and Sexual Sin. 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 episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Ernie Baker discuss navigating challenges in marriages and relationships related to communication and conflict, forgiveness, and building a friendship with your spouse. What you’ll hear in this episode The covenant nature of marriage between a man and a woman. What the P.A.U.S.E principle is and how it relates to marriage. The importance of listening and clarification in conflict. Why complementarians do not support abuse in marriage. What it means for men to be shepherd leaders in the home. Why Christians should live in a perpetual state of forgiveness. What it looks like for couples to specifically apologize to one another. Making the time to talk and build friendship with your spouse. About the Guest Ernie Baker, DMin, Westminister Theological Seminary, has served in pastoral ministry since 1980. He currently serves as Pastor of Counseling at First Baptist of Jacksonville, Florida, where he helps to oversee pastoral car

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Sarah Jenkins discuss enjoying reading and studying the Bible, the benefits of reading and studying Scripture, and finding and owning your approach to Scripture reading and study in the new year. What you’ll hear in this episode Enjoying reading and studying the Bible. The difference between Bible reading and Bible study. The benefits of reading and studying the Bible. Finding and owning your approach to Bible reading and study for the new year. 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 episode of Equi

On today’s episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave discusses what happens if we do nothing about biblical illiteracy and offers some solutions to the growing issue of biblical illiteracy. What you’ll hear in this episode The rise of “Christian” music that doesn’t honor the Lord. The rise of a pragmatic approach to ministry. The continued rise of social justice and wokeness. Some solutions to biblical literacy. 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 episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave shares how the Lord used Servants of Grace in 2021, his top books of 2021, and our content scheduled for Theology for Life in 2022. What you’ll hear in this episode The year at Servants of Grace and how the Lord our ministry. Dave’s top books of the year. Our content schedule for Theology for Life Magazine in the new year. The most downloaded podcasts of the show for 2021. My top books and conversations this year This list represents my top books of the year along with the most downloaded podcasts of the year. This order should not be ready as any book representing my favorite book all of these books are good. It also shouldn’t be ready as the most downloaded episode, etc. of the year.d Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship by Jonathan Gibson. Listen or watch my conversation with Jonathan here: https://servantsofgrace.org/jonathan-gibson-be-thou-my-vision-a-liturgy-for-daily-worship/ Reformed Systematic Theology Spirit and

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Lucy Moll discuss what panic attacks are, cultivating spiritual disciplines, advice for biblical counselors counseling anxiety and panic attack sufferers, along with her mini-book, Help! I Get Panic Attacks (Shepherd Press, 2019). What you’ll hear in this episode What panic attacks are. How the biblical category of terror helps us understand panic attacks. The difference between good and wrong fear. Three examples of people who strongly interpreted their life situations in Scripture. Some keys to focus on the Lord in the various situations of life. How the fear of the Lord helps every Christian. Three spiritual disciplines every Christian needs to cultivate. How the local church can care for anxiety sufferers and those who experience panic attacks. Advice for biblical counselors counseling anxiety and panic attack sufferers. About the Guest Lucy Ann Moll has been involved in biblical counseling since 2008, and is currently

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Sue Nicewander Delaney discuss the two sources of shame, how the Lord Jesus counteracts guilt, humility and shame, how the local church can help those experiencing shame, along with her mini-book, HELP! I Feel Ashamed (Shepherd Press, 2017). What you’ll hear in this episode The two sources of shame. How shame can contribute to our accepting and believing lies and rejecting the truth. How the Lord Jesus counteracts guilt. How exercising humility despises shame. How the local church can help those experiencing shame. About the Guest Sue Nicewander, MABC, is an ACBC-certified counselor and also serves as Executive Director of Biblical Counseling Ministries (BCM) in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, where she offers biblical counseling by pastoral referral and discipleship development training for local churches. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Pl

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Lauren Hereford consider what a caring Christian friend is, how Christian friends can walk alongside one another, intentionality and purposefulness in handling grief and loss, growing through your own grief and loss, and the means of grace and Christian friendship. What you’ll hear in this episode What a good caring Christian friend looks like. What it looks like to be a Christian friend to a grieving friend. The means of grace and Christian friendship. Intentionality and purposefulness in handling grief. How to grow through your own grief and loss. About the Guest Lauren Hereford is a stay-at-home wife and homeschooling mom who was graciously saved by God on July 4th, 2015. Two years later she began blogging and podcasting, hoping to edify others new to the faith. She’s now the host of Tulips and Honey as well as The Aftershow on AGTV, and the Technical Director of Open Hearts in a Closed World. Subscri

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Deborah Howard consider the place of friendship in grief and loss, the immutability of God and facing loneliness, how the local church can help those facing loneliness, along with her mini-book, HELP! I’m So Lonely (Shepherd Press, 2016). What you’ll hear in this episode Learning to process our emotions in a biblical way. Some warning signs of when to intervene with someone who has experienced loss. The place of friendship in the local church. Immutability and facing loneliness with God’s help. How the Bible’s teaching about loneliness helps us to address grief and loss. How the sufficiency of Christ helps address our need to grow in contentment. How the local church can help those facing loneliness. Strategies to help people process their loneliness. About the Guest Deborah Howard and her husband, Theron, live outside Little Rock, Arkansas. Deborah's writing and speaking ministry serves to comfort the hurting, to instruc

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Jonathan Gibson consider the importance of confession, singing solid theology, and the role of creeds, catechism, and confessions play in our daily worship, along with his book, Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship (Crossway, 2021). What you’ll hear in this episode The importance of having regular structured time in daily worship The role Scripture should have in our daily worship. Why singing solid theology helps us in our daily worship. How reading the law of God helps contribute to our daily worship. The role of confession in daily worship. The role creeds, catechisms, and confessions play in our daily worship. How the practice of the prayer of illumination helps us in our daily worship. Practical advice for getting started with daily Bible reading and prayer. How the Lord’s Prayer helps Christians with their daily worship. About the Guest Jonathan Gibson (PhD, University of Cambridge) is an ordained minist

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the dangers of a pragmatic approach and its effect on our approach to discipleship, seeing whole people in need of the grace of God, and the importance of teaching people the principle of the Word and helping them apply them to their life. What you’ll hear in this episode What biblical discipleship is all about and why it’s so important. Why our character in Christ is to fuel our service for Christ. The dangers of a pragmatic approach to ministry. Why a cookie-cutter approach to discipleship is a failure to see people as whole people. Why a cookie-cutter approach to discipleship is a failure to see people’s problems as complex. Why a cookie-cutter approach to discipleship is a failure to understand what real discipleship is. Seeing people as whole people in real need of the grace of God. Teach the principles of the Word and help people learn how to take the principles and apply them to their life. Subscribing, shar

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Andy Davis consider why errant views of heaven are popular today, how heaven helps us process grief and loss, and his new book, The Glory Now Revealed (Baker Books, 2021). What you’ll hear in this episode Why we are so eager to look into the future. Why errant views about what heaven is and what it will be like have developed. The problems we run into if we speculate too much about heaven. Why we can’t trust near-death experiences to describe what heaven is and isn’t. What we can learn about our resurrected bodies from Jesus’ resurrected body in Scripture. Advice to a Christian who has lost family and friends who weren’t saved. How heaven helps us process grief and loss. About the Guest Andrew M. Davis is pastor of First Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina, and a visiting professor of church history at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. A member of The Gospel Coalition, Davis has written articles for TGC's popular

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers a life of gratitude to God and the inheritance Christians have in Christ, evidence of a Spirit-filled life, biblical ethics, thankfulness, and obedience, and what thankfulness and humility are to look like in our lives as Christians. What you’ll hear in this episode Why a life of gratitude can only occur for the Christian when they recall everything we have in Christ as an inheritance. Evidences of a Spirit-filled life. Why biblical ethics has at it’s core thankfulness to the Lord that motives obedience to the Lord. Why Christian thankfulness will always display itself in good deeds and verbal expressions of gratitude. 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 p

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Bodie Hodge consider why science comes out of a biblical worldview, why Christians do with science, why it matters Adam is a real person in real history, and how to read Genesis, along with the dangers of scientism. What you’ll hear in this episode How we as Christians should understand science Why science comes out of a biblical worldview. Why it matters that Adam is a real person in real history. What to do with the claims of William Lane Craig on the historical Adam. How can we use science to point to biblical truth. Why it matters what we think about Genesis 1-3. What a Christian understanding of science is. The dangers of scientism. About the Guest Bodie Hodge is a speaker, writer, and researcher for Answers in Genesis, Bodie Hodge has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You i