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The Rooted PodcastTransactional or relational? Sacrifice in the Bible – Hebrews E5How does Jesus' once for all sacrifice supersede the Old Testament sacrificial system?In this episode we dive into the theme of sacrifice as presented in the book of Hebrews. We explore the significance of the Old Testament sacrificial system as part of God's people keeping their covenant with him. Then we look at how Jesus' sacrifice permanently fulfilled the purpose of the sacrificial system and brought about a new covenant relationship with God.We compare the transactional nature of the old sacrificial system with the relational nature of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. We...
2025-01-1741 min
Religion Media Centre PodcastRMC Briefing: "Religion Counts" - Theos report into religion and voting patterns in electionsThe Theos Think Tank has analysed data from the British Election Survey on the correlation between religion and election voting. It indicates that religiously affiliated voters are more likely to vote on polling day than non-religious voters.Anglicans are the group most likely to vote. Overall they tend to vote Conservative, but those who attend church regularly are more likely to vote Labour. Catholics are floating voters, with their traditional support for Labour swinging to the Tories in 2019-2020, a trend that is now reversing. There is no clear party preference among other Christian denominations....
2024-05-1552 min
ACross CultureACross Culture - Ep 39: with Yinxuan HuangCultural identity or Christian identity? Can you have both? Which comes first?
Explore some of these questions with Jessie and Yinxuan in this episode of ACross Culture. Yinxuan calls himself a Christian, Chinese and a scholar. He shares his testimony of coming to faith from an atheist family with one parent in the Communist Party, and talks about his research - giving us insight into the effects of recent Hong Kong migration to the UK on Chinese churches.
Yinxuan reads from 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 at the end of the ep.
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2023-04-0248 min