Jonathan Holmes-- Rescue Skills: Essential Skills for Restoring the Sexually Broken

Jonathan Holmes– Rescue Skills Essential Skills for Restoring the Sexually Broken

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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Jonathan Holmes the importance of asking good questions, what it looks like, markers of true versus false repentance, skills to help biblical counselors and disciplers, using social media well, along with his book with Deepak Reju, Rescue Skills Essential Skills for Restoring the Sexually Broken (P&R, 2021).

What you’ll hear in this episode

Three core principles of the heart and how they should shape our approach to biblical counseling.
The four ingredients of developing a battle plan for helping someone out of enslavement to pornography.
The importance of a long-term approach.
The importance of asking good questions and what that looks like.
What it looks like practically to be gospel-centered in one’s biblical counseling.
Markers to look for in real versus false repentance.
Skills for counselors to help counselees discover as they come out of pornography enslavement.
Advice for counselors and disciplers on using social media well.

About the Guest

Jonathan Holmes is the counseling pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, the executive director of Fieldstone Counseling, and a member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition.

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Dave Jenkins( Executive Director )

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.