Full-orbed biblical Reformational truth by the founder and president of the Center for Cultural Leadership.
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The Apologist is a podcast of the Cántaro Institute for the advancement of the Christian philosophy of life. Hosted by Institute founding director Steven R. Martins.
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If you’re discouraged and distraught over the surrounding depraved culture or persistent, personal difficulties, you might be helped by this bold, full-throated, biblical defense postmillenialism.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Apologetics & the Early Church with Wesley Huff
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What were the top five moments of apologetic history in the early church according to Wesley Huff of Apologetics Canada? Institute founder Steven R. Martins sits down with Wesley to go over these historical moments and what we can learn for our own apologetic today. Brought to you by the Cántaro Institute.…
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The Battle for Reality is even more pressing than The Battle for the Bible.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Why Christian education? With secular educational institutions across the country, why do we need to set that aside and not even consider that as an option for the education of our children? Ryan Eras of the Wolf's Head House and Chairmaster of the Niagara Classical Academy answers those questions and provides an introduction to Christian classical…
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What is Cultural Marxism? with Dr. Andrew Sandlin
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The terms "Cultural Marxism", "Social Justice", and "Woke" have been dropped on previous episodes of The Apologist podcast, but the occasions did not allow us to go into depth on what these terms actually mean. As part of a much larger discussion, cultural theologian Dr. Andrew Sandlin joins us to kick off our exploration of the definition, develop…
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Apologetics & Reformed Confessions in Latin America with Daniel J. Lobo
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Apologetics is not solely confined to first world countries and isolated centers of intellectualism, it can and ought to be employed everywhere. There is a present need to develop a distinctly biblical apologetics, wherever that may be. Together, Institute directors Steven R. Martins and Daniel J. Lobo, discuss the need for apologetics in Latin Ame…
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No matter how dire our situation, Jesus Christ is our utterly impregnable hope, and to rely on anyone or anything else is an insecure confidence.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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We are saved by Christ and his redemptive work alone, but our salvation inevitably produces godly works. None who live after salvation will enjoy eternal life if they lack good works. We are justified by a working faith.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The Development of a Distinctly Biblical Worldview with Josué Reichow
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For much of our podcast series, we have approached things from a rather Van Tillian approach in regards to our apologetic, and that is for the most part because Van Til set out to develop a distinctly biblical apologetic. But as it concerns the development of a distinctly biblical worldview, while Van Til has much to share, we would do well to turn…
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Getting Biblical Origins Right with Calvin Smith
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We have to get our own worldview right, and to know it well, before we can proceed to engage with, and deconstruct other religious worldviews. Every worldview consists of four main components: origins, meaning, morality, and destiny. How did everything begin? What is the meaning of everything? Is there a moral standard we are to live by? And what i…
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The Solemn League and Covenant with Michael Wagner
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A recurring theme in our study of apologetics is the comprehensive nature of the gospel, and thus the comprehensive nature of our apologetic. This brings us into the avenue of cultural apologetics, but cultural apologetics doesn't happen in a vacuum, we are in a religious historical context, and where we are now is very different from where we were…
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The Creational OS and Knowing God’s Will for Your Life
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To know God’s calling in your life, immerse yourself in the manual of his cosmic operating system.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Christian Worldview or Cultural Marxism?
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What is a Christian worldview, and what is its primary competitor in the Western world today?By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The Case for Pre-Consummate Christian Victory
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The protology and eschatology of the Bible include promises of the advancement and victory of Christ‘s kingdom before the final, perfected eternal state. We must live as victorious people — because we are.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The Bible festers with God’s promises to his people, and living consistently in those promises means living in consistent hope and victory.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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To Live Christianly Is to Live Creationally
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Creation is the backdrop and prerequisite of our Lord’s redemptive work, and to bypass creation is eventually to overturn the gospel.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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What is the Biblical Apologetic Methodology?
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There are many kinds of apologetic "methodologies", from evidentialist to classical to presuppositional, sometimes there is even a mixed use of these methodologies. But what we want to know is, What is the "biblical" apologetic methodology? Brought to you by the Cántaro Institute.
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Remember Your Creator in the Days of Your Youth
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The optimal time to trust Christ and serve God is childhood and youth, not middle and old age. God‘s preventive grace is greater than his recovering and grace, and the apex testimony of God‘s work in the world is children and young people serving him with unremitting zeal.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Salvation is much bigger than most Christians suppose. Unless we see salvation (as Paul does in Ephesians) in its personal, corporate, and cosmic dimensions, our view will be impoverished.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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To live in an atmosphere of prayers to live in constant expectation for God to do both small and mighty things. To live in this atmosphere of prayer is to live a transformed, victorious life.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The family is a part of the creational OS. The blinding assaults against it in postmodern culture (socially constructed sexuality, homosexuality, gender reassignment surgery, and so on) are assaults on reality itself.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Widespread biblical law presupposes a Christian culture and society, and that culture and society will inevitably lead to biblical law.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Satan attempts to replace God’s very good created world with his diabolical alt-world. The goal of aggressive Christianity is to destabilize, delegitimize, and decimate his world.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The biblical God is often consumed by zeal, and his holy jealousy fuels his zeal, which burns against the ungodly and rescues his people.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Creational Worldview: Foundation of Thinking Christianly
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To think correctly as a Christian you must first think correctly about creation.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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This talk to Christian high school students at the Worldview Leadership Academy is the simplest, most basic presentation I’ve ever given of the dominant, secular elite vision of our time.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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What is Apologetics? Far from what many perceive it as, it is not a discipline constrained to the evidential, factual, and historical, it extends well beyond that, proving to be all-encompassing in its scope. Brought to you by the Cántaro Institute.By Cántaro Institute
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From Enlightenment to Postmodernity
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Want to be liberated from the intellectual tyranny of the present? Know the worldviews that created our postmodern world.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Dialectics, Cultural Marxism, and Critical Theory
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Behind the Marxism distinctive to our time is the towering shadow of Hegel and his dialectical view of reality.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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What is apologetics? Whether you're familiar with the term, somewhat acquainted with it, or altogether in the dark, apologetics is necessary to learn about and to continually review because of how vital it is to our Christian witness and living. Brought to you by the Cántaro Institute.By Cántaro Institute
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Utopia and Revolution: Politics, Economics, Sex, and the Church
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The utopian revolutionaries are savaging every last residue of Christian culture, and the church’s double-decker Christianity has abetted the savagery.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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It’s not possible to properly grasp biblical worldview or theology without grasping covenant and kingdom.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The closing charge to the H. Evan Runner Academy 2022.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The ascended Lord is presently ruler of the nations, trampling down his enemies by Spirit, gospel and law, and our prayer, evangelism, and life should aggressively reflect this cosmic reign of our Lord.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Satan offers man an alternative reality to God’s good created world, but God in Christ is de-privileging, deconstructing, and demolishing that world.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Knowing God’s will for our lives is both easier and harder than we think: easier because there’s nothing mystical or mysterious about it, harder because it commits us to go against our apostate world at every point.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Extraordinary Christianity or the Ordinary Means of Grace?
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There are two valid, indispensable modes of practicing our faith, but in our times, one is preferable. Do not bypass normative Christianity for extraordinary Christianity.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Christianity Produces a Christian Society
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If left free to flourish, Christianity always produces a Christian society. Christianity is not inherently anti-cultural; it is only anti-anti-Christian cultural.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Seeking first the kingdom of God presupposes knowing what it is: God’s rule in the earth. To seek first his kingdom is to seek to extend his righteous rule everywhere.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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God plays favorites. He pours out his favor on those who love, trust, and obey him. Zealous Christians ARE better than everybody else.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Christian Youth Should Be the Best Christians
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One of the most pernicious myths of the church is that children must grow up before they can be zealots for Jesus Christ. The most productive Christians in history were following the Lord before they can remember.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Contemporary evangelicalism fosters a worldview that marginalizes and attempts to escape from creation. It’s a defeatist worldview.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The Al Davis School of Eschatology — “Just Win, Baby.” Jesus is the present ruling king, and despite all the machinations of hell, he’s beating down evil and will eventually destroy it. Therefore, live in joy and hope and optimism.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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No sacrifice is too great for the Kingdom, but the Kingdom cannot be limited to a personal devotional hobby.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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God loves to bury His people beneath an avalanche of promises. It’s remarkable how our orthodoxy tends to extend to everything except trusting his promises.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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God’s Ways Are Normal and the World’s Ways Are Weird
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Exposing a great deception for Christian youth by the Father of Lies.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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The Bible does not hold up the saints of those eras as enjoying more successful prayer lives than ours.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Christian Worldview Versus Gnosticism, Escapism, Pietism, and Defeatism
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Alien worldviews in the church have rendered it impotent against an unbelieving cultural onslaught.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Kingdom advancement is the goal of Christian life on earth.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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Prayer Changes Things, and Prayer Changed Me
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A short autobiographical message on the power of prayer to change a life.By P. Andrew Sandlin
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