The Equip Project Podcast

Sep 11 2024 93 ep. 30 mins 14
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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.

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S9 E5 - Mormonism

Sep 11 2024 35 mins  
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, especially in the United States. Over 70,000 missionaries are working across the globe at the moment. Many of our listeners will have encountered them on University

S9 E4 - Islam

Jul 11 2024 58 mins  
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 secular academics have handled the origin of each religion. And finally, we’ll contrast the manuscripts of the Quran and the Bible. After considering these

S9 E3 - Taoism

Jun 11 2024 30 mins  
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 religions of the East interconnect and merge and contradict each other all the time. So it’s said that for morals, the Chinese look to Confucianis

S9 E2 - Buddhism

Jun 04 2024 31 mins  
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 Vietnam. Just like Hinduism, there are different schools of Buddhism and the differences between them are confusing.In this episode we discuss t

S9 E1 - Hinduism

May 28 2024 26 mins  
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 episode we discuss Hinduism. It's our prayer that each of these conversations strengthen your confidence in the better story told by Christianity, helping t

Equip Live - Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

Apr 11 2024 55 mins  
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!

S8 E5 - Gospel Contradictions?

Dec 20 2023 27 mins  
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 early Church to serve political purposes. In this episode we discussed alleged contradictions in the Gospels. We work our way through a numb

S8 E4 - The Words of Jesus

Dec 01 2023 22 mins  
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 did. In this episode we will be thinking particularly about what Jesus said. Do the Gospels record Jesus actual words accurately,

S8 E3 - The Quest for the Historical Jesus

Nov 25 2023 26 mins  
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 faith'. According to these critical scholars, the Gospels are the product of the early church. For mainly political reasons, the early church invented the C

S8 E2 - Between the Testaments - Part II

Nov 17 2023 25 mins  
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-year gap between the end of Malachi and the Gospels. It's sometimes called the intertestamental period.This historical context really matters