On today’s Equipping You in Grace episode, Dave Jenkins and Andrew Davis discuss the place and importance of contentment in the Christian life and ministry along with his book, The Power of Christian Contentment: Finding Deeper, Richer Christ-Centered Joy (Baker, 2019)
What you’ll hear in this episode
- What Christian contentment means.
- How to fight for contentment in the Christian life.
- How the gospel helps Christians to grow in contentment and train their new desires and affections towards contentment in the Christian life.
- How Christians learn to find contentment even in the most difficult and challenging or in the mundane of life.
- How pain factors into Christian contentment.
- How fear and anxiety rob Christians of joy in Christ and what Christians can do to fight against anxiety and fear and for contentment in the Christian life.
- Why we are more discontent even though we have more advancements than ever from modern medicine to revolutionary technology.
- How parents and spouses can model Christian contentment.
- The dangers of Christian contentment and how to fight against complaining in the Christian life.
- How Christians attain contentment and protect it in their lives.
- How Pastors can grow in contentment as they minister to difficult, hurting, and struggling people.
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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.
