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The Equip Project Podcast
The Equip Project is designed to help people engage with the Christian faith in a thoughtful, and reasonable way. Our goal is to help provide clarity and understanding, as we seek to tackle many of the cultural and intellectual challenges to Christianity.
Episodes
93 episodes
S9 E5 - Mormonism
In Episode 5 we discuss Mormonism.Mormons form the 4th largest religious grouping in the United States, after Catholics, Baptists, and Methodists. Globally, there are 16.7 million Mormons. Mormonism is growing quickly, espec...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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S9 E4 - Islam
In Episode 4 we discuss Islam. We consider three big contrasts between Islam and Christianity. We’ll contrast the two founders, by examining the evidence for Muhammad and the evidence for Jesus. Then we’ll contrast the way secula...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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S9 E3 - Taoism
In Episode 3 we discuss Taoism. It’s often said that there are three religions in China – Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. But that statement isn’t referring to 3 different groups. As we’ve seen in the previous episodes, the rel...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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S9 E2 - Buddhism
In Episode 2 we discuss Buddhism. There are about 500 million Buddhists in the world today, making up about 7% of the world’s population. Most Buddhists live in countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, Tibet, China, and Vietna...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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S9 E1 - Hinduism
Season 9 has finally arrived! Sorry we've been away for so long! This season we'll be focusing on 'World Religions and Cults', we'll have conversations about Buddhism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormonism. But in this first epi...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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Equip Live - Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
On Easter Sunday 2024 we held an Equip Live to discuss why we're so sure Jesus really rose from the dead! We also took questions from the audience. Listen now!
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S8 E5 - Gospel Contradictions?
In this season we have been talking about the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. For the past 250 years the Gospels have been a battleground. Critical scholars have done their best to portray the Gospels as fictions invented by the ...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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S8 E4 - The Words of Jesus
We’ve called this season ‘Battleground’ because the four Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – have been attacked in recent centuries by critical scholars who argue that the Gospels don’t contain an accurate record of what Jesus said and di...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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S8 E3 - The Quest for the Historical Jesus
We’ve called this episode ‘The Quest for the Historical Jesus.’ The basic idea is that critical scholars try to dig a great ugly ditch between what they term 'the authentic Jesus', the Jesus of history, and 'the Christ of fai...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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S8 E2 - Between the Testaments - Part II
In the first two episodes of Season 8, we consider the historical context of the Gospels. We'll think about the blank page in our Bibles that separates the last book of the Old Testament from the first book of the New Testament. There's a 400-y...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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S8 E1 - Between the Testaments - Part I
This season we're going to be thinking about the gospel records, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Those four books take us to the heart of Christianity. And, for a long time, they've been a battleground.
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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S7 E7 - Surviving the Storm
In the final episode of season 7 we’ll take a step back and survey the various storms we’ve discussed, so that our listeners can see the logic that underpins this season. And then we’ll think Biblically about how to survive the storms that are ...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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S7 E6 - Conspiracy Theories
We’ve called this season Twitterstorms, because we’re discussing controversies that have blown up in the US among Christians in recent years. In this episode we talk about conspiracy theories. Be prepared for questions about QAnon and the Great...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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S7 E5 - The New New Atheists
Back in 2007, the term “the New Atheists” was applied to men like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. They were fairly brutal enemies of Christianity. They saw it as a poisonous thing, a belief system that had blighted humanity for a thou...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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S7 E4 - Setting Scripture Aside
This season we've been focussing on some of the big controversies that have hit evangelicalism in recent years. In this episode, we use a case study to consider the subtle ways Scripture can be set aside in order to nudge Christians towards fal...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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S7 E3 - How to Study the Bible: Poetry
It's one thing to listen to a Bible teacher talk about a passage of Scripture. But in our personal study, how should we go about making sense of it? Are there any techniques that might help a young adult engage more effectively with the Bible?&...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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S7 E2 - Authority & Abuse
Welcome to a new season of the Equip Project Podcast! This season is called 'Twitter Storms'. We've decided to discuss some of the controversies that have erupted within Christians circles in the past year. Our aim is not to ...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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S7 E1 - Tim Keller and his critics
Welcome to a new season of the Equip Project Podcast! This season is called 'Twitter Storms'. We've decided to discuss some of the controversies that have erupted within Christians circles in the past year. Our aim is not to ...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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S6 E7 - How to Study the Bible: Narrative
In the final episode of Season 6 we ask: 'How should we go about studying the Bible?' It's one thing to listen to a Bible teacher talk about a passage of Scripture. But in our personal study, how should we go about making sense of ...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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S6 E6 - 1 & 2 Samuel: Leadership
In this episode we discuss 1st and 2nd Samuel. In the original Hebrew manuscripts, Samuel was a single book, but it was divided into two by the translators who produced the Septuagint. The historical background to Samuel is really ...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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Equip Live - What's Wrong With The World?
In our first ever Equip Live we address the question 'What's Wrong With the World?' before turning to questions submitted by the audience.God used this live event to greatly encourage us, it was brilliant to get the chance to meet so ma...
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S6 E5 - Isaiah
This week, we tackle one of the longest books in the Bible – the prophecy of Isaiah. Isaiah is 66 chapters long and has been called the Romans of the Old Testament. But the truth is that most preachers just dip into it. Chapter 9’s promise of t...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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S6 E4 - Philippians: The Trajectory of Life
This season we are going to try something that we’ve never attempted before. In each episode, we’ll take a book of the bible and ask: 'what is the big idea that underpins this book?' So we won’t be delving into individual chapters or verses. We...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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S6 Bonus Episode - Evangelism - with Rico Tice
In this bonus episode, Ollie chats to evangelist Rico Tice about sharing the Gospel in a hostile culture. Listen and be encouraged as Rico outlines the Biblical motivation for evangelism, and provides us with plenty of practical ad...
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Season 6
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