Equipping You in Grace

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Ernie Baker about signs to look for in a counselee for biblical illiteracy and how to help them, how biblical counselors can continue to grow in their own biblical literacy, among other topics in this new Equipping You in Grace show.What you'll hear in this episodeWhat is meant by the term biblical counseling and what makes it biblical.The signs a biblical counselor should look for to determine if their counselee is biblical illiterate.How biblical counselors can help address issues with biblical illiteracy in their counselees.How biblical counselors can grow in their own biblical literacy.How pastors can encourage biblical literacy in the biblical counselors in their local church.Concerns about biblical illiteracy in the biblical counseling world and what to do about them.About Today's GuestErnie is the Director of Training for Biblical Counseling Ministries Worldwide.. He is also the chair of the on-line degree in Biblical Counseling at The Master’s University. He has contributed to numerous books and is the author of Marry Wisely, Marry Well, a blueprint for personal preparation and Help! I’m in a Conflict (both by Shepherd Press). Ernie is a Fellow with The Association of Certified Biblical Counselors and a Conciliator with The Institute for Christian Conciliation.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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 considers defining biblical and theological illiteracy, examples of it, statistics on biblical and theological illiteracy, and the purpose of the personal and corporate means of grace.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeDefining biblical and theological illiteracy.Examples of biblical and theological illiteracy.Stats on biblical and theological illiteracy.The personal and corporate means of God.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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 considers the relationship between delight and duty, why every Christian needs to read God’s Word to grow and be a useful servant of Christ, and gives some encouragement to make an intentional plan to read the Bible in 2025.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeThe relationship between delight and duty.The danger of placing delight over duty.Why every Christian needs God’s Word for all of life.Why every Christian needs to read God’s Word to be a useful servant of Christ.Encouragement to make an intentional plan to read the Bible in 2025.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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 talks with Paul Smalley about how understanding the Church and the end times can help the Christian prepare for and face suffering, along with volume 4 of Reformed Systematic Theology: Church and Last Things (Crossway, 2024), Paul wrote with Dr. Joel Beeke. What you'll hear in this episodeHow understanding the Church helps the average Christian prepare for and face suffering.How understanding the end times helps the average Christian prepare for and face suffering.How the means of grace can help the average Christian.How the Reformers and Puritans can help us today to recover a biblical understanding of the Church.How the Reformers and Puritans can help us today to recover a biblical understanding of the end times.About Today's GuestPaul M. Smalley (ThM, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary) is faculty teaching assistant to Joel Beeke at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He previously served for twelve years as a pastor in the Baptist General Conference in the midwestern United States.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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, Dave considers positional and practical peace with God, facing suffering with the Lord’s help, the fruits of the Spirit and contentment, genuine joy in all of life, and the providence of God and the story of our lives.What you’ll hear in this episode Positional and practice peace with God.Facing suffering with God’s help.The fruits of the Spirit and contentment.Genuine joy in all of life.God’s providence and the story of our lives.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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 Sarah consider the relationship between contentment and infertility, how the local churches can help those facing infertility, and offer advice for married couples on having a godly marriage if they don’t have kids.What you’ll hear in this episode The relationship between contentment and infertility.How local churches should address infertility among those who don’t have kids in their church.Advice for married couples on having a godly marriage if you can’t have kids.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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 considers the peace of God and our salvation, the meaning and purpose of practical peace with God, union with Christ, and the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian.What you’ll hear in this episodeThe peace of God and our salvation.The meaning and purpose of practical peace with God.The meaning and purpose of union with Christ.The work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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 talks with Andy Davis about how Scripture memorization can help us in our Christian life and ministry, the relationship between meditation and memorization, tips for starting to memorize the Word, along with his book, How to Memorize Scripture for Life: From One Verse to Entire Books (Crossway, 2024).What you’ll hear in this episodeHow Scripture memorization can help us in our Christian life and ministry.How Scripture memorization and meditation can help us with applying the Word.Some of the main hindrances to people memorizing the Word and what they can do about it.Some of the results of ignorance of Scripture in the Church today.The benefits of memorizing extended Scripture passages.Tips for someone starting to memorize the Word of God.About the GuestAndrew 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 website and has spoken in plenary and breakout sessions at TGC's national conference. He is the author of The Power of Christian Contentment, Revitalize, and An Infinite Journey, named by Tim Challies as one of the top ten books of 2014.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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 talks with Costi Hinn about examples of how the Holy Spirit is abused today, how Christians need to understand the Holy Spirit from Scripture and what the Church has taught, the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian and the Church, along with his book, Knowing the Spirit: Who He Is, What He Does, and How He Can Transform Your Christian Life (Zondervan, 2023).What you’ll hear in this episodeExamples of how the Holy Spirit is abused today.How the Church needs to understand what the Scripture and the church history has taught about the Holy Spirit.The dangers of entertainment approaches to ministry verses faithfulness to Scripture.Current stats on the Holy Spirit in the Church today.How Christians should speak to and about false teachers.The dangers in the modern church on a consumer driven approach to ministry and how that affects our understanding of the Holy Spirit.The Holy Spirit uses the reading, studying, meditating, memorizing f Scripture personally and the hearing of the preached Word corporately in the life of the Christian.The meaning and purpose of illumination.Why the lay person and pastors need the help of the Lord in reading, studying, and teaching God’s Word.Help for the Pastor on preaching the Word.Why our worship is to be grounded in and shaped by the Word.Why the worship music we listen to personally and with God’s people on the Lord’s day is to be sound in doctrine and the importance of this.The nature and purpose of worship.What it looks like for the Christian in the pew in our local churches to preserve the unity of the Spirit when they disagree on the non-essential but important doctrines.The importance of biblical unity.The dangers of false unity.About the GuestCosti W. Hinn serves as teaching pastor of Shepherd’s House Bible Church in Chandler, Arizona, and is the founder and president of For the Gospel, a resource ministry that provides sound doctrine for everyday people. Costi has authored several books, including Knowing the Spirit; More Than a Healer; and God, Greed and the (Prosperity) Gospel; and has coauthored multiple children’s titles, including In Jesus’ Name I Pray, alongside his wife, Christyne. He is currently completing his doctorate at The Master’s Seminary. Costi and Christyne are the joyful parents of five children.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou 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.Thank you for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace.

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Dawn consider current statistics on biblical illiteracy and biblical authority, rightly handling Scripture in context, the dangers of deliverance and how it approaches the Bible, interprets, and applies the Word. What you’ll hear in this episode Current statistics on biblical illiteracy and biblical authority. The importance of understanding Scripture in context and handling Scripture rightly. The importance of biblical discernment and testing those with any kind of platform. Why Christ is the focus and object of our faith. The danger of deliverance from how it approaches the Bible, interprets, and applies the Word. The dangers of generational curse and how that teaching contradicts biblical interpretation. 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. Thank you for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace.