On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Megan Hill discuss the dangers of impatience, how patience helps us to grow in grace and face a variety of situations in our personal lives, marriages, in the church, and at work, along with her book, Patience: Waiting for Hope (P&R, 2021).
What you’ll hear in this episode
The dangers of impatience and how it harms others.
How waiting on the Lord helps us learn to cultivate patience.
How patience helps us to be slow to anger.
How looking to Christ helps us grow in patience.
How understanding our time is short helps us to have a right and godly perspective towards patience.
How to view God’s classroom teaching of patience throughout our lives.
How patience helps us approach our day-to-day productivity.
Why waiting on the Lord is a blessing.
What it looks like practically to deal with difficult people in our local churches.
What it looks like to walk patiently with others.
About the Guest
Megan Hill is a pastor’s daughter and a pastor’s wife. She lives with her husband and four children in Massachusetts, where she is a member of West Springfield Covenant Community Church (PCA). She is the author of several books and an editor for The Gospel Coalition.
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to Sarah Jenkins. 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, and is the Host for the Equipping You in Grace Podcast. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It(House to House, 2021). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Parler, 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.
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