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On today’s Equipping You in Grace episode, Dave Jenkins and Flip Michaels discuss the importance of biblical truth in the Christian life and ministry, along with his book, Five Half-Truths; Addressing The Most Common Misconceptions Of Christianity (Christian Focus, 2018).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- The importance of Christian’s grounded their worldview in the authority of God’s Word and not in our opinion.
- How sound convictions about the Word of God help Christians face challenges to the Word of God.
- What separates biblical Christianity from every other religion.
- How Christians balance the attributes of God’s holiness with His love and His love with His holiness.
- What difference it makes that Jesus is fully God and fully man for our lives.
- Understanding the balance between faith and works and it’s importance for the Christian life.
- Flip’s personal testimony on how he came to understand the five critical biblical truths.
- The importance of theology in the Christian life.
- Learning to respond to those who believe lies about biblical Christianity.
- Why Christians are not anti-intellectual.
- The importance of standing firm for biblical truth while still speaking the truth in love.
- How the Church has wrestled with biblical truth and provided responses to many of the current issues in the Church in the creeds.
- The importance of the sufficiency of Christ in the Christian life.
About the Guest
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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).
You can connect with Dave on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, YouTube, or subscribe to his newsletter.
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.
