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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show Dave and Christopher Ash discuss how the Psalms help Christians face challenging situations, learn to lament, express our emotions appropriately, and to see and know Christ better, along with his book, Psalms for You (The Good Book, 2020).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- How the Enlightenment affected our understanding of the Psalms.
- How the Psalms help Christians understand the High Priestly ministry of Jesus.
- What the language of delight in the Psalms can teach us about the God who has given His people His Word.
- How the Psalms help Christians to face challenging situations.
- Some tips in reading the Psalms correctly.
- How the Psalms help Christians to see and know Christ better.
- How the Psalms help Christians learn to lament.
- How the Psalms help Christians to worship the Lord.
- How the Psalms help us to understand and respond to our emotions with God’s help.
- How the Psalms help us to sing sound theology.
About the Guest
Christopher Ash has been a pastor, and is now an author and writer-in-residence at Tyndale House, Cambridge. He was Director of the Proclamation Trust’s Cornhill Training Course from 2004-2015. He is married to Carolyn and they have four children and five grandchildren.
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.
Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.
He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).
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When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.
Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.




