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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Is Contentment a Journey Rather Than a Destination?

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

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Christianworldview, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianapologetics, Forensicfaith, Colsoncenterforchristianworldview, Christian, Christianity, Evidenceforchristianity, Faithandreason, Godscrimescene, Coldcasechristianity, Apologetics, Society & Culture

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Why is contentment often so elusive? What is the basis for contentment and how can we better understand and approach it? In this episode of the podcast, J. Warner talks with Dave Jenkins, the author of Contentment: The Journey of A Lifetime as they explore contentment as defined in Scripture. Dave provides practical help for those who want to gain contentment in their own lives.

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0:00.0

Jay Warner Wallace is a cold case homicide detective who's been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:09.2

His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Court TV.

0:12.9

Now we join him as he applies his investigative skills

0:15.6

to making a case for Christianity.

0:17.8

Thanks for joining us a Cole Case Christianity.

0:20.9

I am J Warner Wallace. Now this week week what I want to do is we've talked

0:25.0

before with Dave Jenkins a number of times and I've been on his podcast and I've

0:29.5

posted some of those podcasts even here on our podcast but Dave's got a new book out that I thought was I was

0:36.2

intrigued by it when he first told me about it and then when I got it I was happy to get it because

0:40.5

he's talking about something that I think we often underestimate but first Dave let me

0:46.0

just welcome you into our show thanks for joining me today yeah it's always good to be

0:50.9

with you brother I really appreciate you in your ministry and how the Lord is using you so

0:55.0

Well, and I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you to introduce yourself even more formally to our audience in a second but I wanted to tell you why I thought this book was

1:01.2

Important why I wanted to get you on the show.

1:03.7

You know, I often, you're writing about contentment and how it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

1:10.7

very hard to achieve.

1:12.1

And the subtitle of your book is it's called

1:14.2

Contentment the Journey of a Lifetime and that is so true and I also have written

1:20.0

about this recently but in a very much briefer way I'd love to how you deep

1:23.2

dived it here because I've been talking about some of the case work I've

1:28.2

seen where one of the driving motivations of some of the people we've put in custody was this elusive

1:36.8

pursuit of contentment. Like there's always something more that we are, I don't want to get

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