Welcome to the thirty-eighth episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave Jenkins interviews Dr. Julius Kim about his book Preaching The Whole Counsel of God: Design and Deliver Gospel-Centered Sermons (Zondervan, 2015)
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Dr. Julius Kim life, ministry, marriage, and his current ministry projects.
- How Pastors, and Bible teachers can discover the truth of the biblical text.
- How Pastors and Bible teachers can discern Christ in the biblical text.
- Essentials for the design of the sermon.
- The influence of neuroscience on the design and delivery of the sermon.
- What led Dr. Kim to investigate the area of neuroscience on the design and delivery of sermons.
- What Dr. Kim learned in his studies on neuroscience about verbal and nonverbal communication.
- Remembering who we are before what we do as pastors and teachers of God’s Word.
- The importance of prayer to ministry.
About the Author:
Prior to taking his current position at Westminster Seminary California, Dr. Kim ministered in a variety of ecclesiastical and academic settings. He has served in Presbyterian Church in America churches in California and Illinois. His current church calling is as Associate Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in Escondido. Dr. Kim also continues to serve the broader Christian community as a preacher, speaker, and ministry consultant-especially for the Korean-American church. While in Illinois, he taught undergraduate communications at Trinity International University and church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has also been a Visiting Scholar with the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University.
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
