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Posted On December 8, 2021

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Deborah Howard- HELP! I’m So Lonely

by Dave Jenkins | Dec 8, 2021 | Equipping You in Grace, Featured

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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Deborah Howard consider the place of friendship in grief and loss, the immutability of God and facing loneliness, how the local church can help those facing loneliness, along with her mini-book, HELP! I’m So Lonely (Shepherd Press, 2016).

What you’ll hear in this episode

Learning to process our emotions in a biblical way.
Some warning signs of when to intervene with someone who has experienced loss.
The place of friendship in the local church.
Immutability and facing loneliness with God’s help.
How the Bible’s teaching about loneliness helps us to address grief and loss.
How the sufficiency of Christ helps address our need to grow in contentment.
How the local church can help those facing loneliness.
Strategies to help people process their loneliness.

About the Guest

Deborah Howard and her husband, Theron, live outside Little Rock, Arkansas. Deborah’s writing and speaking ministry serves to comfort the hurting, to instruct, and to write for Him. As a former hospice nurse, her experience lends itself to this ministry. Her fiction work is designed to entertain while demonstrating that living according to biblical principles is indeed possible.

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Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

Dave Jenkins( Executive Director )

Dave Jenkins is happily married to Sarah Jenkins. 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, and is the Host for the Equipping You in Grace Podcast. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Parler, Truth Social, 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.

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