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On today’s Equipping You in Grace Dave and Deborah Howard talk about her experience as a hospice nurse and how it helped her to think more about death and hope in Christ, how the character of God helps Christian face life with hope in the Lord, how Christian friends can help us in our walk of faith in Christ, along with her book, Jonathan Edwards and the Christian Pilgrim (Christian Focus, 2023).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- How Deborah’s lived experience as a hospice nurse helped her to think more about death and our hope in Christ.
- How Hebrews 11 helps us hold onto the promises of God in the present while we look forward to the return of the Lord.
- How understanding more of the character of God in Scripture helps Christians to face life with hope in the Lord.
- How Christian friends can help us in our walk of faith in Christ.
- How Bible reading and doing life with others in our local churches help the Christian.
About Our Guest
Deborah Howard and her husband, Theron, live outside Little Rock, Arkansas. Deborah’s writing and speaking ministry serves to comfort the hurting, to instruct, and to write for Him. As a former hospice nurse, her experience lends itself to this ministry. Her fiction work is designed to entertain while demonstrating that living according to biblical principles is indeed possible.
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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.
