In light of my participation in Jordan Peterson's Exodus Seminar, I'm continuing with my own commentary on Exodus. This is my second episode on the subject, where I will cover the burning bush in Exodus 3 all the way up to Zipporah and the circumcision of Moses' son in Exodus 4.

Original YouTube video: https://youtu.be/xG72lKeQ5SY
My first video on Exodus: Slaves in Egypt: Exodus 1-2: https://youtu.be/3mbZYgZfHo4

Make sure to head to Daily Wire: https://www.dailywire.com/show/exodus

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265 - The Burning Bush: Exodus 3 - 4

Should nations ever be Christian? Supposedly, we now live in a 'post-Christian' UK, but is this true? Could the UK ever be Christian in future?

With new census data showing that less than 50% of the population of England and Wales now identifies as 'Christian', Dr Joe Boot, Tim Dieppe and Paul Huxley look at what that means for the UK, the societal cost of becoming 'less Christian', and how, as a Christian remnant in this land, we can take steps forward to put Christ at the centre of our nation.

Read more:
https://christianconcern.com/comment/diwali-dechristianisation-and-the-nation/
https://christianconcern.com/comment/britains-first-hindu-prime-minister/


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Could the UK ever be Christian again? | Round the Table

Ho! Ho! Ho! In our secular and pluralistic society, the debate rages each year about de-Christianising Christmas to make it more "inclusive". What's at stake when Christians stop fighting for Christian Christmas? Can you strip away the Christian virtues behind Christmas without losing the light, love, joy, peace, and goodwill at its heart? Are there even ways to "re-Christianise" some of the cultural elements around Christmas traditions which many still enjoy? And what are the unique evangelistic opportunities Christmas still offers, even to those who've long forgotten its Christian origins? Andy and Aaron discuss all these questions and more in our festive special episode!

RESOURCES:
* Douglas Wilson, God Rest Ye Merry: Why Christmas is the Foundation for Everything (Canon Press, 2012)
* G. K. Chesterton, The Spirit of Christmas (Xanadu, 1984)
* C.S. 'Xmas and Christmas: A Lost chapter from Herodotus' (1954)

Episode 52 - Who Owns Christmas?

Given the general craziness of the times, last year on Pod of the Gaps we identified six key challenges for the Church to face up to as it seeks to interpret and speak into our cultural moment. 

So at the beginning of yet another year, we thought we'd do it again! Andy and Aaron start off by reviewing last year's challenges, before again doing the all-important live-reveal (unbeknownst to each other) and see what comes out. It's all very exciting ... 

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Episode 53 - Six Challenges for the Church in 2023

"In the message of the cross, God has reached down and dirtied His hands, revealing His inner character of love, mercy, and forgiveness and in the process humbling the proud and overturning human opinion about greatness. Ironically, God's greatness is evidenced by the depths to which He is willing to go to rescue humans from sin." (Apologetics Bible)

"Soak your minds and hearts in the Word of God until you see and hear the Living Word of God." (Nigel Lee word's that he asked John Lennox to say at his funeral)

“The Bible encourages people to put their faith in God. Unfortunately, many people equate faith with a blind leap in the dark or wishful thinking. But the faith that the Bible requires is intelligent faith. It is neither blind nor irrational. Biblical faith is a committing trust with an object (God) who is worthy of our faith. No one is asked to sacrifice his intellect when he puts his faith in the God of the Bible.” (Don Stewart, The Ten Wonders of the Bible, 1990, p. 13.)

"God has disclosed himself to us in a form that is a shocking surprise, and one that contradicts and confounds all our human expectations and ways of thinking…The God of all power chose to become weak to subvert our puny power, the God of all wealth chose to become poor to subvert our meager wealth, the God of all wisdom chose to become foolish to subvert our imagined wisdom, and the God who alone is the sole decisive one chose to be a nobody to subvert us when we stupidly thought we were somebody.” (Scholar Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion, pp. 174-175)

"Truth for the Christian is personal. The Jesus who said “I am the only way” also said “I am the truth.” In other words, ultimate truth is not a set of propositions but a person. As the Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:12, “I know whom I have believed.” Not what I have believed or experienced but whom. Jesus Christ. To ask why we think that Jesus Christ is the only way is to miss the point entirely. Jesus does not compete with anybody. Nobody else in history made the claims he did; nobody else in history claimed to be able to deal with the problems of the human heart like he did. Nobody else in history claimed, as he did, to be God with us. To say that we believe Jesus is the only way should have nothing to do with arrogance and everything to do with introducing people to him." (Dr. Andy Bannister)

"The kingdom in which Christ invites us to participate is in fact far greater than any one theologian pretends to describe, and it is not one of these, but Christ himself who reigns within it. “We go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so tiny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s ‘weakness.’…But everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.” The camp to which we want most to belong is his." (The Right Circles)

"The Bible is at pains to show through every possible metaphor that what God desires most of us is intimate, loving relationship. I find it telling that when we think of God’s intellect, we quickly acknowledge that it must far surpass any human intellect. But when we think of God’s love, we rarely think of His love as stronger than that of a human parent. Why is that? Is it because deep down we doubt whether we are lovable? From the perspective of Christianity, as small as our minds are compared to the totality of everything that could be known, that is how small our conception of God’s love is compared to the reality of its extravagance." (Philosopher Vince Vitale, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ, pp. 99-100)

The Gospel?

5.28.17 - Abraham and Isaac point to God and a greater sacrifice (Genesis 22)

"Christ says "Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don't want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked—the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours." (Scholar C.S. Lewis)

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5.28.17 - Abraham and Isaac point to God and a greater sacrifice (Genesis 22)

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