On today’s Equipping You in Grace Dave considers the classic view and mode of spiritual warfare and how one’s view of spiritual warfare plays in spiritual growth, among other topics in this new episode.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeWhat Christians Can Learn from Matthew 4:1-11.The classic view and mode of spiritual warfare.The meaning of Ephesians 6:10-18 and why it matters.Understanding the Role Spiritual Warfare Plays in Spiritual Growth is Vital.Ultimately One’s View of Sanctification Will Affect One’s View of Spiritual Warfare.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace Dave and Susan Heck discuss the lessons Susan has learned about grief and suffering these past few years, how the Church can do better at preparing the people of God to face suffering, and how the Church can do better at walking alongside the people of God while they are facing suffering.What you’ll hear in this episodeThe lessons Susan has been learning about grief and suffering these past few years.How the Church can do better at preparing the people of God to face suffering.How the Church can do better at walking alongside the people of God while they are facing suffering.About Our GuestSusan Heck was married for 46 years to her beloved husband and pastor, Doug Heck, who was a faithful Shepherd for 50 years, until the Lord took him to glory in August 2021. Susan has been involved in Women’s Ministries for about 40 years. This included teaching Bible Studies and counseling. Susan goes to Grace and Truth Bible Church of Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Visit her website With the Master for more from Susan.Susan is a certified counselor with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (biblicalcounseling.com) since 2003.  She is also the author of With the Master Bible study series for ladies. She also has authored; A Call to Discipleship, Putting-Off Life Dominating Sins;  A Call to Scripture Memory; A Message of Assurance: Twenty Tests for God's Children; What Does a Spirit Filled Marriage Look Like?; Speaking the Truth in Love in a Post Truth World; and The Liberating Gospel.  Susan’s teaching ministry is an outgrowth of her memorization work on the Bible. She has memorized the entire New Testament along with two books from the Old Testament which include Ecclesiastes, Jonah and several of the Psalms and is now journeying her way through more of the Old Testament. To God be the glory!Susan Heck has two grown children, and seven grandchildren. Both children and their spouses are in full time ministry. Because of the enthusiastic ladies who attend the Bible Studies that Susan teaches, and because of the life changes, Susan has been invited to speak to a number of ladies groups, both nationally and internationally. Susan loves to minister her gift of teaching to women.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the context and meaning of Isaiah 53:5 and the danger of the “healing theology” of the Word of Faith.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeThe context of Isaiah 53:5The meaning of Isaiah 53:5.The danger of the “healing theology” of the Word of Faith.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Jenn Chenn about the DSM, what that term means why it matters, and how Christians should think about it from a biblical worldview, along with how biblical counselors can help those with mental disorder diagnosis, how the doctrine of suffering helps us process our issues, and Jenn’s new book, Biblical Counseling and Mental Disorder Diagnosis (Shepherds Press, 2024).What You'll Hear on Today's EpisodeWhat the DSM means and what it aims to do, and why Christians should care about it.The main difference between the DSM and ICD and any similarities between the two.How Christians should think biblically and theologically to interpret what is happening to those who come to us with needing care from the Word.How do we minister to those who might have a medical component to their problems.How Christians should think through mental health and mental illness and the differences.How the Fallen Condition Focus from Bryan Chappel can help Christians to biblically diagnose people’s issues.How the biblical counselors can provide help and hope to those given mental disorder diagnosis.How the biblical doctrine of suffering helps us to process our issues.About the GuestDr. Jenn Chen is ACBC certified and has taught biblical counseling at seminaries and universities. With a Psy.D in Clinical Psychology and an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, Jenn was formally trained in psychotherapeutic evidence-based practices and held a faculty appointment as a clinical instructor at UCLA. After a life-changing encounter with biblical counseling, she returned to school for her MABC and now practices biblical counseling.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers how Church history helps Christians to prepare for and face suffering, so they might be protected from error, reminded of God’s faithfulness, and motivated to persevere in faithfulness to the Lord.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeSola Scriptura and Church HistoryChurch History Helps us Endure the Perils of the WorldChurch History Helps us Endure Pain within the ChurchChurch History Helps us Engage Perplexing Theological IssuesChurch history aids us in having clarity, consistency, credibility, and courage.Why serious reflection on the past protects us from error, reminds us of God’s faithfulness, and motivates us to persevere.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers what Joseph can teach Christians today about pursuing purity and fleeing temptation and facing suffering with God’s help.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeWhat Joseph can teach Christians about pursuing purity and fleeing from temptation.What Joseph can teach Christians today about facing suffering with God’s help.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers four ways to care for and encourage your pastors, seven ways to pursue holiness in the Christian life, and strategies to fight sexual sin in the Christian life.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeFour ways to care for and encourage your pastors.Seven ways to pursue holiness in the Christian life.Strategies to fight sexual sin in the Christian life.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers George Barna’s research on how evangelicals are not voting and how they are voting, what Scripture teaches about Christians engaging in politics and elections, how Christians should think about voting, and why our vote as Christians matters.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeGeorge Barna’s Research on how evangelicals are not voting and how they are voting.What Romans 13 teaches Christians about engaging in politics and elections.How Christians should think about voting.Who our political authority is as Christians and why it matters.Why our vote as Christian matters.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the history behind decreeing and declaring, examining biblical passages used to support decreeing and declaring, why decreeing and declaring is unbiblical, among other topics on this new episode.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeDefining decreeing and declaringThe history behind decreeing and declaring.Examining verses used to support decreeing and declaring.Why decreeing and declaring is unbiblical.Examples of decreeing and declaring.Resources Mentioned in EpisodeBenny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and the Dangers of Word of Faith On Our Understanding of Suffering https://servantsofgrace.org/benny-hinn-kenneth-copeland-and-the-dangers-of-word-of-faith-on-our-understanding-of-suffering/Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with David Steele about how reading good Christian books can help Christians grow in discernment, discipline, and humility, a plan to overcome barriers to reading, along with his new book, A Christian Reading Manifesto: A New Resurgence of Learning.What you'll hear in this episodeHow reading can help Christians prepare for and face suffering.How reading good Christian books can help Christians grow in discernment.How reading helps Christians grow in humility.How reading helps Christians grow in discipline.Some barriers to people reading and how they can overcome these barriers.Advice to someone just starting out reading good Christian books.About the AuthorDr. David Steele has been in pastoral ministry since 1991. He holds BS and MA degrees from Multnomah University and Multnomah Biblical Seminary and a D. Min from Bakke Graduate University. Following graduation from Multnomah University, he served eight years as Pastor to Students at Lacey Chapel. In 2000, he became the Pastor of Theology at First Baptist Church in La Grande, Oregon where he served for over eleven years. In 2012, he became the Senior Pastor at Christ Fellowship in Everson, Washington. He is the author of Bold Reformer: Celebrating the Gospel-Centered Convictions of Martin Luther, A Godward Gaze: The Holy Pursuit of John Calvin, and The White Flag: When Compromise Cripples the Church. At Christ Fellowship he leads the staff, serves as the Pastor for preaching and vision casting, and oversees Veritas (adult theological education) and Iron Men (men's leadership development). His personal mission is to positively influence people, impact the world one person at a time and to glorify God by enjoying him forever. His passion in ministry is preaching, teaching, and leadership development. Specifically, his aim is to educate the mind, engage the affections, equip the whole person, and encourage God-centered living that treasures Christ above all things. He and his wife, Gerrene were married in 1991 and they have two children.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers how God’s Word equips Christians for trials and tests, and five biblical truths about suffering for every Christian.What You'll Hear on This EpisodeHow God’s Word equips Christians for trials and tests.Five important biblical truths about suffering for every Christian.Subscribing, sharing, and your feedbackYou can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook, or via email to share your feedback.Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!