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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave Jenkins and Dr. John Street have a wide-ranging conversation on pornography, temptation, ministering to singles, and married people, along with his book, Passions of the Heart: Biblical Counsel for Stubborn Sexual Sins (P&R, 2019).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- What heart hermeneutics is.
- How pastors and counselors engage in heart hermeneutics.
- A biblical view of change and why it’s so important to understand to help people address sexual sin in their lives.
- Some ways we can help uncover the underpinnings of how people feed their passion idols.
- What a biblical stress test is and how people should take should a test.
- Some prerequisites for a pure heart before the Lord.
- Help for the person wanting to fight against sexual enslavement.
- Help for the Christian friend wanting to help their friend enslaved to sexual sin.
- How single people fight for sexual purity.
- How married couples fight for purity.
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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 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).
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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.
