On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave Jenkins and Glenna Marshall have a great conversation about the goodness of God, lament, suffering, reading and studying the Bible, church hurt, loving the Church, and her new book, The Promise is His Presence: Why God Is Always Enough (P&R, 2019).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- How learning to follow Jesus doesn’t protect Christians from suffering but leads them in the path of suffering.
- What it is that what we often lack becomes the object of our worship.
- How the goodness of God helps Christians to face suffering.
- How desperation for the Lord helps Christians to cultivate deep dependence on the Lord.
- How learning the nearness of the Lord helps Christians to face the good days and bad days and everywhere in-between in the Christian life.
- How prioritizing our habits as Christians speaks to what matters most to them.
- The role of reading, studying, and meditating on Scripture helps Christians in challenge situations.
- What role waiting on the Lord should have in the lives of Christians.
- Learning good questions of the biblical text not to doubt God but to develop further trust in His revealed character in the Word of God.
- The role friends play in the Christian life to help them through times of suffering.
- How the practice of lament helps Christians during seasons of grief and suffering.
- How to respond to church hurt and deal with it in the Christian life.
- The greatness of God and how He orchestrates all the things of our lives for His glory.
- The local church and spiritual disciplines.
- The role of the local church and helping Christians through hard times.
- Why Christians should love the Church.
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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.
