The Equip Project Podcast

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!

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

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,

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

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

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. Critics of Christianity have launched wave after wave of attacks on the historicity and the theological coherence of the Gospels. We're going to examine many of the arguments advanced

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 heading our way over the next few years.

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 Reset...

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 thousand years. And they were determined to destroy Christianity. So Hitchens wrote God is not great. Dawkins wrote the God Delusion.But in

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 false theological positions and beliefs.