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On the latest episode of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast, Dave Jenkins, and Wayne Grudem discuss the place and importance of Christian ethics to the Christian life and ministry, along with his new resource, Christian Ethics: An Introduction to Biblical Moral Reasoning (Crossway, 2018).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- The Ten Commandments as the foundation for Christian ethics.
- Answering moral relativism with a biblical worldview.
- The missing teaching of Christian ethics in the church and what to do about it.
- The fear of man, the fear of God, and the need for Christian ethics.
- The challenge of transgenderism and how to respond to it.
- How Christian ethics helps Christians make godly, wise, God-glorifying decisions.
- The relationship between systematic theology and Christian ethics.
- The need for personal holiness and Christian ethics in an increasingly secular culture.
- The importance of Christians voting and voting according to a biblical worldview.
- Pornography and sex trafficking.
- How Pastors and ministry leaders can equip God’s people on the issue of abortion.
- Why Christians should care about ethics.
- Why Christian ethics is not legalism.
- How a biblical worldview affects how we think and live before the face of God.
- The importance of moral purity and calling Christians to biblical morality and purity.
About the Guest
Wayne Grudem (PhD, University of Cambridge; DD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary, having previously taught for 20 years at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is a former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, a member of the Translation Oversight Committee for the English Standard Version of the Bible, the general editor of the ESV Study Bible, and has published over 20 books.
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!
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 (G3 Press, 2022), and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).
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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.
