Rebel - Podcast for Cultural Engagement

The third episode of The Ezra Institute's new special series with the Rebels. In "show to Win the World" P Nate and Pootie will be joined by a variety of guests talking about several key practical outworkings of theological concepts that will help Christians expand the Kingdom of God, fix what is broken and slowly, win the world. In this third episode the Rebels are joined by pastor and author Toby Sumpter to talk about the intentional cultivation of Christian Community. How can we build the kind of communities that will be necessary to win the world?

The Ezra Institute brings you a new series with the Rebels when P Nate and Pootie are joined by a variety of guests talking about several key practical outworkings of theological concepts that will help Christians expand the Kingdom of God, see the dark pushed back and slowly (like leaven working through the loaf) win the world. This episode P Nate and Pootie invite Doug Wilson onto the show to discuss an unlikely place for world conquering to start... with corporate worship. Wilson lays out a vision of worship that extends for the corporate gathering of local churches to the private practices of every Christian behind closed doors. If we want to win the world we need to start with proper worship... because in the Christian worldview worship is warfare!

The Ezra Institute brings you a new series with the Rebels when P Nate and Pootie are joined by a variety of guests talking about several key practical outworkings of theological concepts that will help Christians expand the Kingdom of God, see the dark pushed back and slowly (like leaven working through the loaf) win the world. This episode P Nate is joined by pastor/ author Josh Howard, who hosts the Eschatology Matters podcast, to discuss step one to saving the world... believing this world can actually be won!

This week the Rebels launch into a new and exciting series called "How to Win the World" -- in this episode P Nate and Pootie lay a foundational hope that the world can be won and how God plans to accomplish that will be worked out in the unfolding series through a number of special guests.

This week P Nate and Elder P are joined in studio by Sye Ten Bruggencate. Even though the plan was to talk about presuppositional apologetics (that show will drop next week) the Rebels got sidetracked talking about Sye’s long journey to Crossroads, his thoughts on the “Christ is King” controversy and of course… we had to talk about the world ending (again) on April 8th.

This week P Nate and Pootie discuss a number of relevant cultural issues including Canadian censorship, P Diddy's unheard of scandal and why there is media blackout on it as well as answering a listener question about whether or not Christians should watch "The Chosen".

As P Nate and Pootie prepare for their trip south they take the time to quickly record a new episode talking through the headlines of the day. The Rebel podcast is meant to help equip you to engage culture with a biblical worldview, so thinking Christianly about what’s going on is a necessary first step.

After the popularity of our Biblical Cosmology series in the fall last year, Pootie finally plays catch up listening to the Haunted Cosmos and the Rebels nerd out on the unhinged. There is an immense value in Christians understanding what the Bible has to say about the unseen realm, but pastorally P Nate wanted to issue a warning that this is an important secondary issue in scripture that can sometimes become dangerous if we make a secondary storyline THE storyline.

After P Nate and Joe Boot talked at length last week about the Alistair Begg controversy, the Rebels take some time to reflect on the animosity towards what has recently been called "The Moscow Mood" by Kevin De Young. How should Christians engage with controversy, error and cultural issues. What's loving? What's tone policing? And what do the scriptures say? Articles referenced in the episode: Original artcile by Kevin De Young: https://clearlyreformed.org/on-culture-war-doug-wilson-and-the-moscow-mood/ Doug Wilsons response: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/novembers-done-kevin-deyoung.html Joe Rigney's Article (if you only read one): https://americanreformer.org/2023/12/on-satire-moods-and-what-were-known-for/

Oddly this episode is one of our most popular and most asked for... so get ready for some cringey boasting as P Nate, Pootie and Air Jordan come back together with their 2023 book lists going through what books they read, how many and what books won the fairly arbitrary rewards we mostly made up on the spot.