Welcome to the forty-fifth episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave Jenkins interviews Dr. Jeremy Pierre about The Pastor and Counseling the Basics of Shepherding Members In Need (Crossway, 2015) with Deepak Reju.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Dr. Pierre’s life, ministry, marriage, and his current ministry projects.
- Some of the most important lessons he’s learned from his experience in pastoral counseling.
- Why structure to counseling sessions is so important.
- How Pastors can apply the listening, considering, and speaking model to their own counseling ministry.
- How local churches can create a discipleship culture.
- His upcoming book projects.
- Areas of opportunity he sees in the biblical counseling movement today.
- His advice to students in Bible college and seminary looking to get into counseling or ministry.
- What to look for when considering going to a biblical counselor.
About the Author:
Jeremy Pierre (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as the dean of students and associate professor of biblical counseling at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also the pastor at Clifton Baptist Church and serves on the board of directors for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Jeremy and his wife, Sarah, live in Louisville, Kentucky, and have five children.
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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.
