NEW YEAR; NEW SERIES! Investigating World Religions [The Ezra Institute Podcast for Cultural Reformation]
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Joe Boot and Pastor Nate Wright kick off the New Year by introducing a new series on World Religion.
The WAIT is OVER!!! Pre-order your copy of the NEW updated and expanded version of Dr. Boot’s Mission of God with a brand-new study guide! Get it here: https://ezrapress.ca/products/mission-of-god-10th-anniversary-edition;
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Opening
00:17 Intro
00:37 Welcome
01:53 Gospel Culture | Christ is King Conference
02:28 ReformCon 2025
02:45 Mission of God: 10th Anniversary Release
03:04 Series Set-up: World Religions
04:15 What is Religion?
09:29 The Culprit in Our Current Culture Chaos: Religious Pluralism
12:25 Statism & the Myth of Neutrality
12:50 Religion & the Meaning of Life
19:40 The Heart of the Matter
25:00 The Relationship Between Religion & Worldview
29:50 A Taxonomy of Religion
36:58 What Distinguishes Christianity from All Other Religions?
44:23 The Practical Importance of the Series
45:45 Humanism as a Religion
53:33 The Religious Impact on Our Culture in an Anti-Christian Age
56:28 Send-off
57:09 Outro
UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
Christ is King World Missions Conference - "Gospel Culture" | January 19-22, 2025 | San Antonio, TX: https://christisking.church/lyw;
Faith & Medicine Conference | January 19-22, 2025 | Atlanta, GA: https://faithandmedicine.org/;
REFORMCON '25 | "Out of the Ashes" | April 24-26, 2025 @ Tucson, AZ: https://reformcon.org/
Think Christianly about politics with the help of Dr. Boot’s latest book “Ruler of Kings:” https://ezrapress.ca/products/ruler-of-kings-toward-a-christian-vision-of-government;
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| 0:00.0 | This is the podcast for Cultural Reformation, and we are back in 2025, excited to start a new year of podcasting. |
| 0:06.9 | Today, I'm Pastor Nate Wright. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm joined as always by Dr. Joe Boot, and we are excited to kick off the new year with a brand new series on world religion and its impact on the culture around us. |
| 0:44.2 | Well, it's 2025. We are the podcast for Cultural Reformation. And here we are. Joe, how was your holidays? |
| 0:57.1 | My holy days, yes. It was great. Yeah, we had a really good Christmas. I did manage to get a few days off in that period before kicking off the ministry year in Scotland on the 3rd of January, but a really nice family time |
| 1:05.8 | and entered the new year, raring to go and advance the kingdom of Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:13.9 | That's what we're all about. |
| 1:15.4 | Amen. |
| 1:16.2 | Well, we have an exciting itinerary in 2025, a lot of ministry going on with Ezra. |
| 1:22.6 | And for those of you who might be new to the program, just by way of reminder, this is the |
| 1:27.3 | podcast for |
| 1:27.9 | Cultural Reformation, a ministry of the Ezra Institute, where we work to engage culture with |
| 1:34.2 | the claims of Christ and equip current and emerging cultural leaders with biblical worldview, |
| 1:39.0 | Christian philosophy, and cultural apologetics studies through print, digital resources, conferences, |
| 1:44.1 | and training programs. |
| 1:46.4 | We have lots going on, including coming up this month. |
| 1:50.1 | If you happen to be in the area of Texas, Ezra Institute is partnering with Christ is King Church, |
| 1:57.5 | where the pastor Matt Bell has invited us January 19th to 22nd to teach at their, |
| 2:04.6 | I think it's their 63rd annual missions conference, which is incredible. |
| 2:09.3 | Well-traditioned church, and they're bringing us in to talk about culture and do some worldview |
| 2:15.7 | training. |
| 2:16.3 | So if you are in the San Antonio area and you can make it down |
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