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Exposing Psychic Practices in the Church
Published: Saturday, August 9, 2025
Series: Discerning the Times – Answering Today’s Most Urgent Questions
Podcast: The Weekly Watch – Contending for the Word
In this episode of The Weekly Watch on Contending for the Word, Dave Jenkins addresses the growing popularity of psychic and mystical practices—especially within professing Christian circles. From “Christian psychics” to dream interpreters and energy healers, many are being led away from the sufficiency of Scripture toward deception.
Dave walks through passages like Deuteronomy 18, Acts 16, and Galatians 5 to show what God’s Word says about such practices—and how Christians should respond with clarity, conviction, and grace.
Don’t miss Tuesday’s episode with Doreen Virtue, who shares her powerful testimony of deliverance from the New Age and gives a firsthand biblical response to psychic deception.
Listen or Watch the Episode
Listen or Watch the EpisodeFeatured Scriptures
Deuteronomy 18:10–12 (ESV):
“There shall not be found among you anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens… For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD.”
1 John 4:1 (ESV):
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
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Related Resources- Contending for the Word | Biblical Discernment & Cultural Clarity
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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.
