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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Mark Jones about the life and ministry of Stephen Charnock, and how his doctrine of God helps the Christian today, along with his updated and unabridged two volumes he edited of Stephen Charnock’s The Existence and Attributes of God (Crossway, 2022).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- Immutability and the Christian life.
- How Charnock shows the point of doctrine for life.
- Who Stephen Charnock is and why his work has continued to influence the church today.
- The unique contributes Mark’s edited volume of Charnock’s work makes to the literature on Charnock.
- How a biblical and orthodox view of God as described by Charnock helps the Christian today.
- How a biblical and orthodox view of the attributes of God as described by Charnock helps the Christian today.
- Why we need men like Charnock again today and what such men would look like in the Church.
About Today’s Guest
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.
