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 episode • The lessons Susan has been learning about...

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 Episode • The context of Isaiah 53:5 • The meaning of Isaiah 53:5. • The danger of the "healing theology" of the Word of Faith. Subscribing to the show Website: https://servantsofgrace.org/equipping-you-in-grace-2/ App...

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 (...

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 Episode • Sola Scriptura and Church History • Church History Helps us Endure the Perils of the World • Church History Help...

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 Episode • What 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 to the show...

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 Episode • Four ways to care for and encourage your pastors. • Seven ways to pursue holiness in the Christian life. • Strategies to fight sexual sin in the Chri...

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 Episode • George Barna's Research on how evangelicals are not voting and how t...

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 in this episode • Defining decreeing and declaring • The history behind decreeing and declaring. • Examining verses used to support...

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 episode • How reading can help Christians prepare for and face suffering....

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 in this episode • How God's Word equips Christians for trials and tests. • Five important biblical truths about suffering for every Christian. Subscribing to the show Website: https://servantsofgrace.org/equippi...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Jonny Ardavanis about the character of God and practical strategies to address our struggles with anxiety, discouragement, depression, and more, along with his new book, Considers the Lillies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God (Zondervan, 2024). What you'll hear in this episode • The most effective antidote to worry, fear, and anx...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the history of the Word of Faith movement, the characteristics and theology of this movement, along with how the biblical worldview and the teaching of Scripture helps us understand suffering through a variety of ways through the lens of faith. What you'll hear in this episode • The history of the Word of Faith Movement. • The characteristics...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Jacob Tanner about how Christians can prepare for and face suffering, how the Puritans help Christians today with preparing for and facing suffering, along with his new book, Wait and Hope: Puritan Wisdom for Joyful Suffering (RHB, 2024). What you'll hear in this episode • How Christians can prepare for and face suffering. • How the Puritans...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers how and why false teaching affects our understanding of biblical truth and suffering, along with how the Bible's teaching on biblical doctrine affects our understanding of suffering, among other topics on this new episode. What you'll hear in this episode • False teaching can have a negative impact on people's understanding of suffering • Test...

On today's Equipping You in Grace Dave and Sarah discuss the means of grace and the Christian, why Christians need the personal and corporate means of grace, and how the means of grace help us prepare for and face suffering. What you'll hear in this episode • The means of grace and the Christian. • Why Christians need the personal and corporate means of grace. • How the means of grace help us prep...

Suffering and trials are hard and difficult. The path as Christian learned in Pilgrim's Progress is filled with many distractions, thorns, and thistles. In this new Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the doctrine of providence and suffering, how biblical encouragement helps Christians to face suffering, how to keep our spiritual footing in the face of suffering, and walking alongside thos...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Aimee Joseph about how Colossians helps Christians today prepare for and face suffering, how Paul's teaching on false teachers helps Christians today, along with her new devotional, You Are Secure: Devotions for When Life is Uncertain (New Growth Press, 2024). What you'll hear in this episode • How the book of Colossians helps us to prepare f...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the new heavens and the new earth and how it impacts the Christian life both now and in the future, along with how this doctrine helps Christians prepare for and face suffering today. What you'll hear in this episode • How the new heavens and new earth helps Christians prepare for and face suffering today. • Heaven vs. The New Heavens and New...

Death comes for everyone and along the way many people experience deeply challenging life situations that affect the entire family. In this new episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave is joined by his lovely wife Sarah who shares her experience of her mom having cancer and dying from it, and Dave shares his experience of his parents significant memory loss. Additionally, they discuss how to deal b...

Since the matter of memory loss is increasing in our society, we increasingly need more Christians to speak out about it and share why and how they deal with it the help of God's Word, His people, and the Church. On today's episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave speaks about the matter of caring for two family members with significant memory loss and how he addresses it with God's Word and the pe...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Randy Alcorn about how living in light of the truth of heaven can help those grieving now, finding your God-given identity after a loss, along with his mini-book, Grieving with Hope: Walking with Jesus in Heartbreak (New Growth, 2024). What you'll hear in this episode • How grieving with hope can help Christians prepare for and face suffering...

Since the problem of evil is the greatest theological challenge Christians face today on today's Equipping You in Grace Dave will explore the meaning of theodicy in the Book of Job, Christian theology, and also aim to help listeners and those who watch Equipping to form a Christian response to the problem of evil. What you'll hear in this episode • Theodicy and the Book of Job. • Suffering As a Te...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks about Christopher Ash about reading and rightly interpreting the Psalms, and his new commentary set, The Psalms: A Christ-Centered Commentary (Crossway, 2024). What you'll hear in this episode • Why the Psalms are essential to the life of the Christian church. • Why the Psalms are central to the Psalms. • The right way to read the Psalms in light...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers God's purpose in suffering and the comfort He alone provides and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian. What you'll hear in this episode • Suffering Highlights Dependence. • Strength in Weakness. • God's Purpose in Suffering — and Comfort. • The Spirit of Truth Comes, Testifying of Christ. • The Spirit as the Advantageou...

On today's Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Sarah share personal stories of how the Lord has helped them deal with grief and death, what lament is and why it helps the Christian, and practical ways to deal with grief as a Christian. What you'll hear in this episode • Dave and Sarah share personal stories of how the Lord has helped them through dealing with grief and death. • What lament is an...