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Grace Alone: The Gift of Salvation
🎙️ Equipping You in Grace · 📅 Monday, October 6, 2025 ·
📖 Ephesians 2:1–10 · 📜 Series: Standing Firm: Truths Worth Reforming For
Show Summary
In this episode, Dave Jenkins unfolds the Reformation truth of Sola Gratia — Grace Alone from
Ephesians 2:1–10. We were dead in sin, but God, rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ. Salvation is
entirely a gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Grace humbles our pride, gives assurance,
fuels worship, and produces a life of obedience and good works prepared by God.
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Key Points
- Our Desperate Need for Grace (Eph. 2:1–3): not sick or merely weak, but spiritually dead.
- God’s Rich Mercy and Love (Eph. 2:4–7): “But God” — He makes us alive with Christ.
- Gift, Not a Work (Eph. 2:8–9): salvation and faith are gifts of grace, so no one may boast.
- Grace Produces Good Works (Eph. 2:10): we are His workmanship, saved for good works.
Scripture
Ephesians 2:1–10 (ESV)
Pastoral Application
- Grace humbles pride: salvation rests on what God has done, not what we do.
- Grace gives assurance: if salvation is by grace, we are secure in Christ.
- Grace fuels worship & obedience: we serve from gratitude, not to earn favor.
Resources
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.
