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Christians are called to contend for the faith while correcting opponents with gentleness. Dave Jenkins draws lessons from the Protestant Reformation to explain why the gospel, biblical authority, and faithful worship must be defended. Learn to distinguish serious error from secondary disagreements and pursue discernment marked by courage, patience, and love for Christ and His church. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

God declares sinners righteous by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. In this episode, Dave Jenkins explains the biblical doctrine of justification, the righteousness of Christ counted to believers, and the distinction between justification and sanctification. Working through Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and James, Dave shows why good works are the fruit of saving faith and never the basis of our acceptance before God. Learn how sola fide protects the gospel, strengthens Christian assurance, and encourages a life of grateful obedience. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Dave Jenkins examines three enduring Reformation themes: objective truth, biblical worship, and the authority of Scripture. From John 17:17, John 4:24, and 2 Timothy 3:16–17, he explains why the church must receive truth from God, worship according to His Word, and submit to biblical correction. Christians are called to speak truth in love and demonstrate submission to Scripture through faithful obedience. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Dave Jenkins explains why sola Scriptura remains essential for the church today. Examining religious authority, claims of new revelation, personal experience, and cultural pressure, he shows why every competing voice must be tested by God's Word. This episode also considers pastoral accountability, the differences between revelation and illumination, and faithful Christian decision making. Scripture alone is the only infallible and final authority for Christian faith and life. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Dave Jenkins examines three trends undermining biblical authority: claims of private revelation, experience becoming the interpreter of Scripture, and cultural pressure reshaping biblical teaching. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3:16–17 and other passages, he explains how sola Scriptura helps Christians test spiritual claims and remain faithful to God's Word. This Weekly Watch episode encourages careful discernment rooted in knowing Christ, growing in sound doctrine, and remaining committed to the local church. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Scripture alone is the final infallible authority for Christian faith and life. Dave Jenkins explains the Reformation's doctrine of sola Scriptura and examines the Passion Translation as a case study in biblical authority. Through five biblical passages, Dave explores the difference between faithful translation and interpretive expansion. He also addresses claims of modern revelation, the sufficiency of Scripture, and practical ways pastors and Christians can test teaching, choose trustworthy translations, and graciously help others grow in discernment. The episode closes with encouragement to trust God's unchanging Word through suffering and remain anchored in the gospel of Jesus Christ. For more from Contending for the Word, visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

The Reformation's central concerns remain vital for the church today. In this episode of The Weekly Watch, Dave Jenkins examines biblical authority, the sufficiency of Scripture, and justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Learn how competing authorities and spiritual experiences can contribute to doctrinal drift, why every teaching must be tested by God's Word, and how Christians can guard the gospel and stand with courage. For more from Contending for the Word, visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Christians can stand firm in God's truth without surrendering compassion or losing hope. Dave Jenkins concludes the September series by exploring our identity in Christ, biblical courage, speaking the truth in love, and guarding against cynicism. Discover how abiding in Christ strengthens believers for daily faithfulness through Scripture, prayer, local church fellowship, and ordinary obedience. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Online popularity does not prove biblical faithfulness. In this Weekly Watch episode of Contending for the Word, Dave Jenkins explains how to evaluate online teachers, test spiritual claims by Scripture, and resist the pull of personality and controversy. Learn why biblical discernment requires knowing God's Word, following Christ, and growing under the care of a faithful local church. For more from Contending for the Word, visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Seven Mountain Mandate teachers argue that Christians must reclaim schools, universities, and educational institutions to advance God's kingdom. Although education profoundly shapes people and cultures, Scripture never defines institutional conquest as the church's mission. Dave Jenkins examines the educational mountain through Deuteronomy 6, Proverbs, Matthew 28, Acts 2, Ephesians 4, and 2 Timothy 3. He explains how God shapes the next generation through faithful parents, biblical wisdom, sound churches, gospel proclamation, and ordinary discipleship. Christians should serve faithfully in education, but influence is not dominion, vocation is not ecclesiology, and institutional control cannot regenerate the human heart. Christ commissioned His church to make disciples, not conquer cultural mountains. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Cultural controversies change constantly, but the worldview beneath them remains the same: humanity's rejection of God's authority to define reality. In this Weekly Watch episode, Dave Jenkins explains how Romans 1 equips Christians to recognize the lies beneath modern debates about identity, sexuality, human dignity, freedom, technology, justice, and truth. Christians are called to resist compromise and cruelty, renew their minds through God's Word, speak truth in love, and rest in the reign of Christ. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

In this episode of Contending for the Word, Dave Jenkins explains Romans 12:1–2 and the biblical necessity of a renewed mind. In a culture filled with competing voices, false teaching, emotionalism, and worldly philosophies, believers are called not to be conformed to this age but to be transformed by the renewing of their minds through God's Word. Dave considers the relationship between doctrine and godliness, the role of the local church in spiritual maturity, and the sufficiency of Scripture to guard Christians from deception and conform them to Christ. For more from Contending for the Word, visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

Dave Jenkins examines the danger of allowing feelings, private impressions, mystical encounters, or emotional intensity to function as spiritual authority. Christians are called to test every claim by the sufficient and final authority of God's Word. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

In this episode of Contending for the Word, Dave Jenkins explains why personal experience, feelings, impressions, and claims of private revelation must never rival the authority of Scripture. Christians are called to test every experience by God's sufficient, clear, and unchanging Word, resting their confidence in Christ and His promises rather than fluctuating emotions. For more from Contending for the Word, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/

In this Weekly Watch episode, Dave Jenkins examines four trends shaping a post-truth culture: personal experience as authority, technology as a source of salvation, spirituality without biblical truth, and biblical vocabulary detached from biblical meaning. Christians are called neither to fear nor obsession, but to watchfulness rooted in the sufficient Word of God. This episode equips believers to test every claim, discern the worldview beneath cultural trends, and remain firmly anchored in Jesus Christ. For more from Contending for the Word, visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-podcast/