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Welcome to the eighty-third episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave discusses how John Calvin’s famous phrase, knowing God and knowing ourselves relates to biblical wisdom and understanding, for the purpose of helping us daily feast on the Word of God.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- The Nature of Biblical Wisdom and Understanding.
- How Calvin’s famous phrase knowing God, knowing ourselves relates to Bible reading.
- Why feasting on the Word is enjoying the meal God has prepared in His Word for His people.
- The purpose of the Holy Spirit in the Word for His people.
- The danger of a check-list approach to spiritual disciplines.
- How Redemptive history relates to biblical wisdom and understanding.
- How delighting in God and His Word stirs our affections and spurs our growth in God’s grace.
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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.
