On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave is joined by Dawn Hill and Doreen Virtue, and together they discuss the dangerous theology of Come Out in Jesus name with examples from the theology and practice of Greg Locke, Alexander Pagani, Tai Locke, and Isaiah Saldivar, the dangers of spiritual abuse and the marks of it, along with the sufficiency of Christ and the importance of it.What you’ll hear in this episodeLearning to deal with and respond correctly to criticism.Examples of the theology and practice of Greg Locke, Alexander Pagani, Tai Locke, and Isaiah Saldivar.How Scripture confronts the approach to modern-day deliverance.The danger theology of the Come Out in Jesus Name movie.The dangers of spiritual abuse and the marks of it.The sufficiency of Christ and the importance of it.About GuestDoreen is an author and podcaster. Her website is: DoreenVirtue.com and you can find her at Instagram.com/DoreenVirtue, Facebook.com/DoreenVirtueForJesus, and YouTube.com/DoreenVirtueForJesusDawn Hill is a Christian blogger known as The Lovesick Scribe and the host of The Lovesick Scribe Podcast. She is passionate about sharing the truth and pointing others back to Jesus Christ through the written Word as the standard of authority for Christian living and instruction while being led by the Holy Spirit into maturity. She is the author of NonProphet Woke: The Reformation of a Modern-Day Disciple. She is a wife to Nicholas and a mother to Anabel and Ephraim. You can follow her on Facebook and Instagram.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 talks with Brooke Bartz about Open Hearts conference 2023, why women are to learn theology, how theology helps women, why complementarian theology is good for the Church, and how husband and wife can encourage one another with Scripture.What you’ll hear in this episodeThe origin and purpose of Open Hearts.Brooke’s latest projects.How women can watch the Open Hearts conference and where they can watch.Why women are to learn theology.How theology helps women in all of life.Why complementarian theology is good for the church.How husband and wife can encourage one another with Scripture.About the GuestBrooke Bartz is a stay-at-home wife and mom. She is the founder of Open Hearts in a Closed World Ministry and Conference and is involved in women’s ministry at her church. She is married to her childhood crush, and they have a beautiful twelve-year-old daughter. Brooke desires for teen girls to come to faith in Christ and then live out their lives boldly and unashamed of the Gospel as they hold to their purity and stand for Jesus in their generation. She enjoys teaching women of all ages the Word of God and speaks at conferences. Brooke's passion is spurring on the women God leads to her sphere of influence, inspiring their hearts to be a living testimony in Christ and a light in the darkness.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 talks with Ray Comfort about spiritual growth and evangelism, dealing with fear and anxiety in evangelism, and sharing Christ with difficult people, along with his new book, So Many Lions, So Few Daniels Living Without Compromise in a World in Need of Truth (Baker books, 2023).What you’ll hear in this episodeThe relationship between spiritual growth and evangelism.Dealing with anxiety and fear while engaging non-Christians in evangelism.Dealing with objections in evangelism.Advice for new Christians to get plugged into a local church.Sharing Christ with difficult people.About the GuestRay Comfort is an experienced apologist and popular speaker who has written over 100 books. Cohost of the award-winning TV program Way of the Master, which airs across the globe, Comfort is the executive producer of several award-winning movies that have been seen by millions. He and his wife, Sue, live in Southern California.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 talks with Nancy Pearcey about how men are under attack in secular culture and media and how Christians should respond, how Christian men should deal with their emotions, fathers and their role with sons, dealing with abuse in the church, and her new book, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes (Baker Books, 2023).What you’ll hear in this episodeHow men are under attack by our secular culture and secular media and how Christians should respond.Why Christians are against abuse of any kind.How men are torn between two competing scripts, the secular and the biblical today.Why Christian men who are faithful in their church attendance have the lowest levels of abuse and divorce.What specific repentance and confession look like in marriage and our relationships with one another.What biblical manhood and biblical courage looks like in our home, church, and society.How biblical men deal with their emotions.The history of the idea of toxic masculinity and the long-term strategy for preventing toxic masculinity.Why Christians fathers investing in their sons is so vital.Practical steps fathers can take to be more involved with their sons and daughters.How local churches can respond more effectively to abuse in Christian homes.About the GuestNancy Pearcey is the author of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, as well as Love Thy Body, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and Total Truth. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual."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 Dave and Laura Perry Smalts discuss what is happening in college campuses, universities, in sports, and in the media on transgenderism, along with giving advice to parents, and Christians walking alongside and trying to help those stuck in transgenderism.What you’ll hear in this episodeWhat is happening on our college campuses and universities with respect to transgenderism.What is happening with the rise of transgenderism in sports.How Hollywood and social media have contributed to the rise of transgenderism.The most concerning aspects of the rise of transgenderism in our day.The most concerning aspects of the rise of support of transgenderism in the church.The danger of hermeneutical gymnastics.Advice for parents whose children are being indoctrinated at every stage of their schooling on transgenderism.Advice for Christians walking alongside and trying to help those stuck in transgenderism.About the GuestLaura Perry lived for nearly a decade as a transgender man named "Jake," before realizing the deception of the transgender lifestyle and leaving it all behind. Embracing her true identity as a woman, she shares her story at churches and conferences, in articles, and on various programs, to help others find the same freedom she has. Laura is on staff with First Stone Ministries in Oklahoma City and has been featured in the American Family Association documentary "In His Image." She is now happily married to her husband.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 talks with Laura Perry Smalts about her testimony from transgenderism to the Lord Jesus, and how she views her story through a Christ-centered lens, the dangers of puberty blockers, and medical transitions, the truth about regret and why we don’t hear from detransitioners, God’s design of men and women and why it matters, gospel hope for those enslaved in sexual sin, along with her book, Transgender to Transformed a story of transition that will truly set you free (Genesis Publishing, 2019).What you’ll hear in this episodeLaura’s testimony of how the Lord led her through many different experiences from transgenderism to the Lord Jesus and how she views those experiences through a Christ-centered lens.The dangers of puberty blockers and medical transitions.The truth about regret and why don’t we hear from detransitioners.God’s design of men and women and why it matters.Dealing with bitterness, guilt, and shame associated with sexual sin with the gospel.What gospel hope looks like for those stuck in sexual sin.About the GuestLaura Perry lived for nearly a decade as a transgender man named "Jake," before realizing the deception of the transgender lifestyle and leaving it all behind. Embracing her true identity as a woman, she shares her story at churches and conferences, in articles, and on various programs, to help others find the same freedom she has. Laura is on staff with First Stone Ministries in Oklahoma City and has been featured in the American Family Association documentary "In His Image." She is now happily married to her husband.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 Dave discuses examples of our culture and the church's move towards transgenderism and the worship of self, biblical hermeneutics and the dangers of wrongly interpreting the Bible, idolatry and the gospel, the Bible's teaching on life, gender, and sexuality, and how Christians should respond to the transgender movement with Scripture.What you’ll hear in this episodeWhy theology matters and has consequences.The nature of biblical hermeneutics and the dangers of wrongly interpreted the Bible.Examples of our culture’s movement toward transgenderism and the worship of self.The biblical worldview on gender, life, sexuality.The danger of theological relativism on the church and our view of Scripture.The nature of biblical idolatry and the gospel of Jesus.How Christians should respond to the transgender movement with biblical truth.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 considers the current discussion on biblical sexuality in our culture and the church, why the biblical teaching on marriage and sexuality matters, and why biblical doctrine both divides and heals.What you’ll hear in this episodeCurrent Discussion on Biblical Gender Roles in Our Culture and in the Church.The Teaching of Scripture on Gender and Sexuality MattersBiblical Arguments for Marriage Between One Man and One Woman.Biblical Doctrine Both Divides and Heals.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 considers the nature and purpose of biblical discipleship, biblical purity, and biblical sexuality, along with the dangers and examples of cultural discipleship. What you’ll hear in this episode The nature and purpose of biblical discipleship. The nature and purpose of biblical purity and biblical sexuality. The nature and purpose of biblical boldness. The dangers and examples of cultural discipleship. 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.

Rosaria Butterfield, a speaker, author, and former professor, dives deep into the nature of biblical repentance and its importance. She highlights the dangers of adopting the moral lens of LGBTQ+ personhood and warns against using transgender pronouns as a Christian. Butterfield argues that transgenderism has become akin to a religion, expressing concern over its influence in education and media. She encourages Christians to engage thoughtfully in public discourse while standing firm in their faith amid cultural pressures.