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Truth Beneath the Headlines: A Biblical Worldview for a Confused Culture
Every week brings another controversy, headline, viral debate, or cultural conflict. Yet beneath the changing issues is a deeper question: What is true?In this episode of Contending for the Word Weekly Watch, Dave Jenkins examines the worldview beneath today’s cultural confusion. Drawing especially from Romans 1:18–32, he explains why confusion about identity, sexuality, human dignity, freedom, justice, and technology is ultimately theological. When people reject God’s authority to define reality, everything becomes negotiable.Listen or Watch
Christians do not need to panic at every new headline or allow social media and political tribes to form their thinking. Instead, we need minds renewed by God’s Word and confidence in Christ, who reigns over every cultural moment.This episode considers how believers can identify the assumptions beneath cultural claims, resist both compromise and cruelty, speak the truth in love, and remain steadfast in the gospel.In This Episode
- Why cultural confusion is fundamentally theological.
- How to recognize the worldview beneath a headline.
- Why identity and human dignity are received from God, not self-created.
- How Christians should think about freedom, compassion, and truth.
- Why discernment requires deeper formation by Scripture than by media.
- How to respond with conviction, compassion, courage, and hope.
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 War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).
You can connect with Dave on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, YouTube, or subscribe to his newsletter.
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.
