On today’s Equipping You in Grace Dave and Sarah discuss the means of grace and the Christian, why Christians need the personal and corporate means of grace, and how the means of grace help us prepare for and face suffering.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeThe means of grace and the Christian.Why Christians need the personal and corporate means of grace.How the means of grace help us prepare for and face suffering.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!

Suffering and trials are hard and difficult. The path as Christian learned in Pilgrim's Progress is filled with many distractions, thorns, and thistles. In this new Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the doctrine of providence and suffering, how biblical encouragement helps Christians to face suffering, how to keep our spiritual footing in the face of suffering, and walking alongside those suffering in this new show.What you'll hear in this episode• The doctrine of providence and suffering.• How biblical encouragement helps Christians to face suffering.• How to keep our spiritual footing in the face of suffering.• How to walk alongside those who are suffering.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 Aimee Joseph about how Colossians helps Christians today prepare for and face suffering, how Paul’s teaching on false teachers helps Christians today, along with her new devotional, You Are Secure: Devotions for When Life is Uncertain (New Growth Press, 2024).What you'll hear in this episodeHow the book of Colossians helps us to prepare for and face suffering.What union with Christ is and why it matters.How Christians confuse their identifiers with our ultimate identity in Christ.How a deepening understanding of the gospel affects our identity.Paul’s concern about false teaching in Colossians and why it matters today.The role of Christian community in helping to shape our Christian identity.How we should approach and live among those who are outside the faith with words of grace and thoughtfulness.About the AuthorAimee Joseph is a church-planting wife who serves alongside her husband who pastors Center City Church (San Diego, CA) and a mother to three sons. She is the author of Demystifying Decision Making and You Are Secure and has also written for Desiring God, and Modern Reformation. Her great delight is to equip women to love God's word in the context of the local church.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 new heavens and the new earth and how it impacts the Christian life both now and in the future, along with how this doctrine helps Christians prepare for and face suffering today.What you'll hear in this episodeHow the new heavens and new earth helps Christians prepare for and face suffering today.Heaven vs. The New Heavens and New EarthCreation’s Purpose and Reversing Adam’s CurseLast ThingsSubscribing, 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!

Death comes for everyone and along the way many people experience deeply challenging life situations that affect the entire family. In this new episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave is joined by his lovely wife Sarah who shares her experience of her mom having cancer and dying from it, and Dave shares his experience of his parents significant memory loss. Additionally, they discuss how to deal biblically with intense pain and suffering, give encouragement to stand firm in intense suffering and trials, and much more on this new episode of Equipping You in Grace.What you'll hear in this episodeSarah’s experience with her mom having cancer.How to deal biblically with intense pain and suffering.How the new heavens and new earth can help Christians face suffering today.Encouragement to stand firm in intense suffering and trials.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!

Since the matter of memory loss is increasing in our society, we increasingly need more Christians to speak out about it and share why and how they deal with it the help of God’s Word, His people, and the Church. On today’s episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave speaks about the matter of caring for two family members with significant memory loss and how he addresses it with God’s Word and the people of God.What you'll hear in this episodeCaring for family and friends with memory loss.Biblical mediation.LamentSubscribing, 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 Randy Alcorn about how living in light of the truth of heaven can help those grieving now, finding your God-given identity after a loss, along with his mini-book, Grieving with Hope: Walking with Jesus in Heartbreak (New Growth, 2024).What you'll hear in this episodeHow grieving with hope can help Christians prepare for and face suffering.How health sorrow can help Christians recognize the immensity of loss.How greater love for the Lord lead to greater relief to those facing sorrow.How living in light of the truth about heaven can help those grieving.The dangers of unhealthy versus health grief.How Christians can walk alongside those facing grief.The importance of finding your God-given identity after a loss.About Today's Guest Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspectives Ministries and a New York Times bestselling author of 60 books, including Heaven and Face to Face with Jesus. His books have sold over 12 million copies and been translated into over 70 languages. Randy resides in Gresham, Oregon. Since 2022, his wife and best friend, Nanci, has been living with Jesus in Heaven. He has two married daughters and five grandsons.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!

Since the problem of evil is the greatest theological challenge Christians face today on today’s Equipping You in Grace Dave will explore the meaning of theodicy in the Book of Job, Christian theology, and also aim to help listeners and those who watch Equipping to form a Christian response to the problem of evil.What you'll hear in this episodeTheodicy and the Book of JobSuffering As a Test of FidelitySuffering As a Recompense for SinSuffering as Submission to the Mystery of God’s SovereigntyThe Debate over God’s Providence in Church HistoryThe Problem of EvilGod’s Purposes for Evil and SufferingSubscribing, 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 about Christopher Ash about reading and rightly interpreting the Psalms, and his new commentary set, The Psalms: A Christ-Centered Commentary (Crossway, 2024).What you’ll hear in this episodeWhy the Psalms are essential to the life of the Christian church.Why the Psalms are central to the Psalms.The right way to read the Psalms in light of the Psalms.How the Psalms are a means of god’s blessing to His people.The dangers of reading yourself into the Psalms and how to avoid it.How the Psalms are organized and why it matters.Practical helps for the average Christian reading the Psalms.About the GuestChristopher Ash is writer in residence at Tyndale House in Cambridge and a full-time preacher, speaker, and writer. He previously served as the director of the Proclamation Trust’s Cornhill Training Course and as a minister and church planter.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 considers God’s purpose in suffering and the comfort He alone provides and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian.What you’ll hear in this episode What you’ll hear in this episodeThe purpose of suffering in the life of the Christian.How suffering can help establish us in the faith.What being established in our faith looks like practically.Three examples of being exhorted in 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!