On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Neil Shenvi discuss helping people with the problem of evil, why our approach to apologetics should be rooted in Christ, and his book, Why Believe: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity (Crossway, 2022).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- How reading the Gospels can help us understand who Jesus is, what He came to do, and His mission for His people.
- Help young people struggling through the issue of the problem of evil.
- Presenting our arguments in a biblically faithful way and responsibility pointing people to Christ.
- Why our arguments for God should lead to wonder of God.
- Cultural relativism and how Christians should respond to it.
- Advice for the people facing suffering.
- The purpose of suffering and the Bible’s answers to our suffering.
- The gospel and our approach to apologetics.
- Why it’s important to examine our biblical worldview from God’s Word.
About Today’s Guest
Neil Shenvi (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) has worked as a research scientist at Yale University and Duke University and has published over thirty peer-reviewed papers. He is married to Christina and currently homeschools their four 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.
