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