Ezra Institute Lectures - Audio

Joe Boot answers audience questions such as, What does it mean to love our wives as Christ loved the church? How does a certificate legitimize a marriage? Should there be a Christian government, and what would that look like? What is the proper application of God’s law to contemporary life? 

Jesus is the only man who kept the Law of God perfectly. The laws of our land are founded on the principles of biblical law; the biblical law continues to be a model of justice and righteousness, holding all men equally accountable before God, and guarding against tyranny.

Our land comes under judgment and a curse as a result of idolatry. In any age, the effect of idolatry among God’s people is the decay of faith, and the subsequent decay of social order and nation

God is Lord over all the earth, and he has given this authority through Christ to the Church. The good news of the gospel is that Christ is seated on the throne now. Our hope is that we have been called according to God's good purposes for time and eternity.

In the face of contemporary culture's ridicule and scorn of traditional masculinity, Christian men must recover a vision of God's Word for our lives as we lead our families and churches. There is much we can learn about this from our Christian forefathers.

Opponents of Christianity try to deny its veracity and legitimacy by likening it to cults and charlatans.

Everything in history is designed to unveil the glory of God.

Despite popular misunderstanding, religion and state have been intimately related as far back as recorded history can tell us.

The sexual revolution of the 1960s set out to change culture, and saw traditional, Christian sexual ethics as retrogressive, stifling, and the enemy of the good life.

It is through our role as Christ's ambassadors and as heirs in God's kingdom that we are intended to engage the world around us.

As beings created by God in His image, man's identity is found in God's will for him and is not something that man himself can invent.

God's solution to many of today's social challenges are family, community and private property.

John Calvin said that the protection of the community from unjust men through fear of punishment, without which they have no other reason for lawful behaviour, was the purpose of the law. The history and abandonment of this legal perspective in Canadian public policy is discussed.

God's words are actions and always achieve the purpose for which they were made. Our laws need God's words if they are to achieve anything.

All that is ever needed in history are faithful Christian people. When there are faithful Christian people applying God's word, transformation is the ultimate result.

In order to address the huge shift in our social order we need to examine the evolutionary worldview since most disciplines today, including that of Law, have become permeated with it.

Dr. Boot discusses social justice as it relates to the question of living a just, or righteous life, and the bearing which that has on our thinking about the public and political sphere.

The book of Genesis declares that God is the Creator and Lord of life. As such, his words on how we are to regard and value human life are not just important but authoritative.

Dr. Boot discusses what it means to live in terms of the lordship of Christ, that Jesus is Lord over all, and what the relationship is between Christians and their culture.

One of the key issues of our time is the notion that all values, including moral ones, are subjective and merely personal. Our education system now promotes behaviours which, in the past, were associated with being uneducated.