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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Lindsay Carlson about the danger of self-help encouragement, encouraging one another biblically in our relationships with one another, along with her new book, A Better Encouragement: Trading Self-Help for True Hope (Crossway, 2022).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- The danger of fear of man and biblical encouragement.
- How biblical encouragement builds our friendships with one another in Christ.
- Why many Christians are drawn to encouragement found in self-help books.
- The Bible’s teaching on encouragement.
- Why we don’t expect enough from our encouragement.
- Learning to be specific and focused on Christ in our encouragement of others.
About Today’s Guest
Lindsey Carlson is a pastor’s wife, a mother of five, and a native Texan. She enjoys writing, speaking, teaching women the Bible, and making disciples that grow by God’s grace. She is the author of Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl’s Guide to Maturing in Christ.
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!
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.