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Apologetics: Should Pastors Preach for Conversions?

6th March 2021

In the churches where I first came to know Jesus Christ, no service was complete without an invitation—a time for the people in the pews to respond to the message by making their way down the aisle. Especially during weeklong revival services, “Just as I Am” inevitably ran out of verses before the preachers ran […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Lead, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry Tagged With: conversion, evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastor, preaching, preaching for conversion

Mary Jo Sharp: A Former Atheist Looks at the Problem of Evil + “One of Us” (Joan Osborne)

23rd February 2021

Why do atheists see the problems of evil as such a problem for Christians? And is the problem of evil really as problematic as some atheists seem to think? Those are a few of the many questions that Timothy explores in this episode with Mary Jo Sharp. A former atheist who’s now a faithful follower of […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: 1995, apologetics, college ministry, Emancipation, Joan Osborne, Mary Jo Sharp, One of Us, Prince, problem of evil, Relish, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Why I Still Believe

Apologetics: Five Reminders to Strengthen Your Defense of the Faith

9th February 2021

1. Apologetics is not an apology; apologetics is a defense that includes evidence. I was in my late teens the first time I read the words “apologetics” and “apologist.” At first, I thought these words had something to do with Christians apologizing for misdeeds undertaken in the name of Christ. It didn’t take long for […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics Tagged With: 1 Peter, apologetics, Peter, resurrection

Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast on Patreon

1st February 2021

If you’ve enjoyed Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast over the past couple of years, I wanted to encourage you to take a look at a new line of items that’s being made available to spread the word about this podcast. You can take a look at the items here: http://www.patreon.com/threechordsandthetruth Thanks to this partnership […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Job, Jesus, and the Existential Problem of Evil + “You Found Me” (The Fray)

26th January 2021

If you’re a Christian who’s suffering or if you want to help people who are suffering, this episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast—“Job, Jesus, and the Existential Problem of Evil”—is the most important installment in this entire series about the problem of evil. This time around, the focus is the existential problem […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, leadership, ministry, music review, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, cross, defense, Epicurean dilemma, Epicurean Paradox, existential problem of evil, God’s problem, Jesus, Job, kenosis, pastoral care, pastoral problem of evil, problem of evil, problem of suffering, suffering, The Fray, theodicy, You Found Me

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Evidential Problem of Evil + “God’s Love” (Bad Religion)

19th January 2021

In the previous episode, Garrick and Timothy debunked the logical problem of evil. But dealing with the problem of evil requires far more than mere logic! The problem of evil also calls for a close examination whether or not the overwhelming amount of evil in the world might make God’s existence unlikely. That brings your […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Bad Religion, defense, Empire Strikes First, evidential problem of evil, Greg Graffin, problem of evil, theodicy

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Logical Problem of Evil + Pop (U2)

12th January 2021

According to a survey of recent college graduates, the problem of evil is the issue that makes it most difficult for many of these graduates to trust in the truth of Christianity. These students’ struggles mirror the struggle that biblical scholar Bart Ehrman describes in his book God’s Problem: “I felt compelled to leave Christianity […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Alvin Plantinga, Bart Ehrman, Bono, contingent, defense, free will defense, freewill defense, God Freedom and Evil, Irenaeus, logical problem of evil, necessary, no see’um argument, Pop, problem of evil, red panda, red pandas, soul-making defense, Staring at the Sun, theodicy, U2, Wake Up Dead Man

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Soul Movie

7th January 2021

This episode is all about Soul. That’s because Garrick and Timothy recently headed to the theaters to watch the Soul movie, a new cinematic feature produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. And by “headed to the theaters,” what they mean is that each of them headed downstairs to their respective home theaters, where […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, History, Movie Reviews, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: 22, African American, afterlife, Andrew Root, Andy Root, barber shop, black, Black Panther, Charles Taylor, cinema, Disney, expressive individualism, film, Gnostic, Gnosticism, inside out, jazz, jon batiste, jonathan batiste, Josh Chatraw, movie, Pixar, podcast, race, racism, soul, spark, The End of Youth Ministry, theater, theology, Three Chords Goes to the Movies

Apologetics: Were the Gospels Meant to Be Taken as Historical Testimony?

29th December 2020

How do we know if the testimonies preserved about Jesus in the New Testament Gospels were intended to be taken as historical testimony in the first place? It is possible, after all, that the Gospels that came to be included in the New Testament were never meant to describe actual occurrences. Perhaps they were written […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, genre, Gospels, historical, Historical Jesus, Historical testimony, history

Apologetics: How Can Presuppositional Apologists Use Classical and Evidential Arguments?

29th December 2020

How do the classical arguments for God’s existence fit into presuppositional apologetics? Or do they? Is there any place for the teleological, cosmological, or ontological arguments in presuppositionalism? And what about historical texts, artifacts, and arguments? Can evidences from history help to make a presuppositionalist case for faith or not?

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, History, Learn Tagged With: apologetics, B.B. Warfield, classical, classical apologetics, Cornelius Van Til, evidential, evidential apologetics, natural theology, presuppositional, presuppositionalism, Thomas Aquinas, Van Til

Josh Chatraw: The Apologetics of Blaise Pascal + “Superstition” (Stevie Wonder)

29th December 2020

Faith happens, and this week’s episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast is all about how faith happens. In the first half, Garrick and Timothy are joined by Josh Chatraw, the apologist extraordinaire who has been freshly forgiven for his many missteps when it comes to being conversant in the art of […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Blaise Pascal, church history, epistemology, gospel, history, Josh Chatraw, Pensees, Stevie Wonder, Superstition, Telling a Better Story

Sean McDowell: Getting the Gospel to Generation Z + “Baba O’Riley” (The Who)

17th November 2020

“Generation Z.” “iGen.” “Centennials.” Whatever you happen to call this generation, the children who drew their first breaths in the years between Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” are the first generation of digital natives in human history. But how secure is the faith of these teenagers and young adults? And how […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, featured, History, leadership, Learn, ministry, music review, Music reviews, pastoral care, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: 1969, auto-destructive art, Baba O’Riley, Dadaism, Ealing Art School, Gen Z, Generation Z, Gustav Metzger, Lifehouse, Meher Baba, minimalist composition, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Sean McDowell, teenage wasteland, teenagers, Terry Riley, The Who, Tommy, Woodstock

Apologetics: Were the Stories of Jesus Based on Pagan Parallels?

12th November 2020

Pagan parallels to Christianity! Is it possible, as some people claim, that the stories of Jesus were based on Pagan myths? It’s an accusation that’s been around a long time. Even in ancient times, critics of Christianity noticed some parallels between Christian beliefs and pre-Christian myths. In the late second century, a philosopher named Celsus charged, “The […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, C.S. Lewis, Christmas, Easter, gospel, Gospels, Mithras, myth

Apologetics: Final Examination for Fall 2020 On-Campus Christian Apologetics Courses

10th November 2020

It’s that time again! Below, you will find the final examination for my on-campus courses in Christian Apologetics this semester at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Students: Once you open the file, you must complete the examination in its entirety. There is no time limit, but the only resources you may use are your own […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog Tagged With: 28700, apologetics, Christian Apologetics, exam, examination, final, final exam, final examination, SBTS, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Josh Chatraw and Stephen Presley: How to Do Apologetics Like the Early Church

20th October 2020

It’s a two-for-the-price-of-one sale this week at Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast! (Actually, it’s “two-for-the-price-of-none,” since you don’t actually have to pay to listen to the podcast anyway.) In any case, the focus is apologetics in the early church. The festivities begin with church historian extraordinaire Stephen Presley, who joins us to talk […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Book reviews, History, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, blues, history of apologetics, Irenaeus, Irenaeus of Lyon, Josh Chatraw, Petra, Stephen Presley, Telling a Better Story, U2, Willie Nelson

Alisa Childers: The False Gospel of Progressive Christianity + “I Want to Know What Love Is” (Foreigner)

6th October 2020

Welcome to the first-ever—and probably the only-ever—episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast that’s focused on love. And so, pull up a chair, strap on your headphones, grab your favorite scissors and your red construction paper, and prepare to cut out some paper hearts. (And, by the way, why hasn’t anyone ever […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Book reviews, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: agape, Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, apologetics, Apologetics Podcast, Bob Dylan, Brian McLaren, C.S. Lewis, eros, Foreigner, Four Loves, Garrick Bailey, Lou Gramm, love, love episode, Mick Jones, philia, progressive Christianity, Richard Rohr, storge, Superchick, Three Chords and the Truth, Timothy Paul Jones, Traveling Wilburys, ZOEGirl

Russell Moore: The Search for a Satisfying Story + “He Went to Paris” (Jimmy Buffett)

22nd September 2020

Sometimes, the best defense of the gospel isn’t a better argument but a better story. That’s why the previous episode about Josh Chatraw’s book Telling a Better Story and this episode with Russell Moore both focus on narrative apologetics. Also: after an episode in which your intrepid cohosts dredged the depths of some of the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, leadership, ministry, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, C.S. Lewis, ERLC, ethics, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Frederick Buechner, fundamentalism, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Mere Christianity, narrative, Neil Gaiman, Paul McCartney, Petra, Russell Moore, story, storyline, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, This Means War

Apologetics: How Much Intellectual Common Ground Is There Between a Christian and a Non-Christian? Common Notions and Common Ground in the Writings of Cornelius Van Til

19th September 2020

The thinking of a Christian and a non-Christian diverges at the most basic level. The believer in Jesus Christ sees all of reality from the cognitive perspective of an individual who lives with “the mind of Christ” and whose life is shaped by the Word of God (1 Corinthians 2:16). This does not cause Christians […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog Tagged With: Alister McGrath, apologetics, canons of Dordt, common grace, common ground, common notions, Cornelius Van Til, Dordt, Dort, Dortrecht, evidential apologetics, evidentialism, presuppositional, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, presuppositionalist, Reformation, Reformed theology, Synod of Dordt, Van Tilian, Van Tillian

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: How to Do Apologetics in a Skeptical Age

18th August 2020

Have you ever heard terms like “presuppositionalism,” “evidentialism,” or “classical apologetics”? Have you wondered if there’s an easier way to understand apologetics? Maybe you’ve even wished that people could defend the Christian faith in a skeptical age without talking about these terms at all. If so, this episode is for you! (Actually, every episode is […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, Backstreet Boys, Chatraw, classical, cosmological, evidential, evidentialism, Frozen, inside out, inside out apologetics, James K.A. Smith, Josh Chatraw, Kenny Loggins, Meet Me Halfway, presuppositional, presuppositionalism, secular, skeptical, tassological, teleological, Tina Turner

Ted Cabal: Creation and the Age of the Earth + “Let There Be Rock” (AC/DC)

4th August 2020

This episode is packed with answers in Genesis—but, believe it or not, when we say “Genesis” we’re not talking about the group that’s been fronted by Phil Collins since the early 1970s from which Mike + the Mechanics was a spinoff. The focus of this week’s episode is the other Genesis, the one at the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Answers in Genesis, apologetics, Apologetics Study Bible, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, church history, Controversy of the Ages, creation, evolution, Genesis, Henry Morris, history, Institute for Creation Research, old earth, old-earth creation, old-earth creationism, Ted Cabal, Theodore Cabal, young earth, young-earth creation, young-earth creationism

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