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Creation & Authority: Who Has the Right to Define Reality?
Series: Equipping the Mind and Heart – Biblical Truth for a Challenging Culture Host: Dave Jenkins Air Date: July 9, 2025In this timely and theologically rich episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave Jenkins continues the series Equipping the Mind and Heart – Biblical Truth for a Challenging Culture. He tackles one of the most urgent questions of our day: Who has the right to define reality?As our culture promotes subjective truth, fluid identity, and radical autonomy, this episode calls Christians back to the unshakable foundation of God’s Word. Dave discusses the collapse of truth, the weaponization of language, the church’s prophetic role, and how believers can faithfully live out God’s design in a post-truth world.🎧 Listen to the Episode
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🔍 Episode Highlights
- ✅ The collapse of truth in our culture
- ✅ The rise of self-definition and identity ideology
- ✅ How language is being weaponized
- ✅ Why the church must stand firm on God’s revealed Word
- ✅ What it means to live out God’s truth in a post-truth world
📖 Key Scriptures
Genesis 1:1 · Psalm 11:3 · Romans 1 · Isaiah 5:20 · John 8:32 · 2 Timothy 3:16 · Ephesians 6:10–17🔗 Resources & Links
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Who has the authority to define reality?
According to the Bible, God alone has the authority to define reality as Creator and Sustainer of all things.
What does this episode of Equipping You in Grace cover?
Dave Jenkins explores the biblical foundation for truth, the rise of identity ideology, and how Christians can remain rooted in God’s Word in a post-truth culture.
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).
You can connect with Dave on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, YouTube, or subscribe to his newsletter.
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.
