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On today’s Contending for the Word show, Dave is joined by Jac Marino Chen and they discuss the Jac’s experience in the occult and practicing ritual magic, how Christians should think about Hollywood, “Christian” witches, approaching your pastor about questionable doctrine and practice, and much more on this new Contending for the Word show.
What You’ll Hear on This Episode
- Help for young people on not masking their pain with worldly activities but to seek truth in God’s Word.
- Jac’s experience in the occult and practicing ritual magic.
- The difference between the occult and the New Age.
- Some distinguishing marks of the occult and the New Age.
- How Christians should speak to the current trends and movies coming out of Hollywood.
- The concern with the “normalizing” of “Christian” witches and witchcraft in our culture.
- Advice for those in our local churches on the influence of New Age practices infiltrating the Church.
- How to approach your Pastor about questionable doctrine and practice.
- When to know and how to leave your local church about questionable doctrine and practice.
About Today’s Guest
Jac Marino Chen comes from a past of sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, the new age, the occult, and eventually practicing ritual magic in a Freemason lodge as a member of an occult order. It was there that Jesus Christ saved her, revealed to her the darkness she was in, delivered her, and made her new.
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Find Jac on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2S8HtvbfZjD73mosatFn1A
Find Jac at her website: https://www.jacmarino.com/
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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.
