Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Archives - Timothy Paul Jones

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: How to Be an Apologist without Being a Jerk

14th March 2023

You don’t have to be a jerk to be an apologist. In fact, if you’re being a jerk, you’re not doing apologetics in a biblical way, because biblical apologetics calls Christians to defend the faith in “meekness and fear” (1 Peter 3:15b). So how can you be an apologist without being a jerk? One of […]

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Resurrection-Centered Apologetics

7th March 2023

This episode begins with the infancy of Jesus and ends with his resurrection. It’s Garrick who brings up the infancy of Jesus, and it happens in the Raiders of Church History segment in a manner that’s far more awkward than Timothy anticipated. This episode is the first—and hopefully the last—time that lactation has ever been […]

Josh McDowell: How to Know God Exists

21st February 2023

If they made apologetics action figures, Josh McDowell would be one of the figures in the first set. If they made apologetics trading cards, Josh McDowell’s card would be in a collectible foil pack. He has toured with the pioneering Christian rock band Petra, and his book Evidence that Demands a Verdict was selected by […]

Kyle Beshears: Apatheism, Mormonism, and Theological Shoegazing

14th February 2023

Welcome to the Apathetic Episode of The Apologetics Podcast! An episode focused on apathy and apatheism probably seems appropriate to all of you who have noticed how apathetic Garrick and Timothy have been about releasing new episodes for the past few months. But that wasn’t actually due to anyone’s apathy! It was because Timothy needed to […]

Timothy Paul Jones: We Are All Apologists Now

4th February 2023

A faculty address is given only once in a lifetime of academic research, and it becomes part of the institution’s permanent record of a professor’s scholarship. I had the privilege of delivering my faculty address “Brothers and Sisters, We Are All Apologists Now” in Broadus Chapel on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. This address is my […]

Huey Lewis and the News: The Holy Trinity and “The Power of Love”

9th August 2022

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones have already devoted one entire episode of this podcast to love. That was when they discussed Foreigner’s 1984 hit “I Want to Know What Love Is.” But Garrick and Timothy are far too full of love to fit all of their feelings about love into a single episode. That’s why they’re […]

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Abortion, Apologetics, and the End of Roe v. Wade

25th July 2022

Christians have been talking about abortion far longer than you may have imagined. Abortion has even shown up in apologetics conversations, although probably not in the ways that you would expect.

Michael Kruger: What If Our Bibles Don’t Have the Right Words?

19th July 2022

Michael Kruger, president of the Charlotte campus of the Reformed Theological Seminary and preeminent scholar of early Christianity, joins us to talk about the reliability of the copies and the canon of the New Testament.

Keith Plummer: Doubt, Deconstruction, and an Apologetic of Kindness

5th July 2022

Welcome to the Very Kind Episode! Of course, almost every episode of this podcast is kind of kind, mostly because Garrick is just that kind of person, but this episode is particularly kind, because we’re joined by Dr. Keith Plummer.

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Did the Council of Nicaea Choose the Books in My Bible?

8th June 2022

The books of the Bible were selected in the year 325 at the Council of Nicaea, right? That’s what a lot of Christians seem to think. But is this story true? And, if it isn’t true, how did the tale of a council that created the canon begin in the first place?

Metallica (Part 2): The Problem of Evil, the Power of Shame, and “The God That Failed”

17th May 2022

The dynamic duo ends this two-part episode with a powerful look at how the gospel answers the dilemmas of shame and unforgiveness that emerge as such dominant themes in Metallica’s later albums.

Metallica (Part 1): Christian Science, the Problem of Evil, and “The God That Failed”

17th May 2022

How a nineteenth-century cult known as the Church of Christ, Scientist, impacted James Hetfield and the music of Metallica.

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: How the Life of the Church Defends the Truth of the Faith

26th April 2022

In an act of heroism of a sort that hasn’t been seen since the conclusion of Avengers: Endgame, Garrick and Timothy bravely prevent the end of apologetics. Also, they show how Live Aid would never have happened in 1985 if it hadn’t been for the rise of Christianity nearly two thousand years earlier.

Dan Kimball: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

22nd March 2022

Dan Kimball joins The Apologetics Podcast this week to talk about his most recent book, How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture.

J. Warner Wallace: What Could We Know About Jesus If Every Bible in the World Disappeared?

22nd February 2022

What if every single copy of the Bible went fluttering away, never to be seen again? If that happened, surely all of our knowledge about Jesus would be gone as well, right? Not so fast, says cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace.

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Who Really Wrote the Gospels?

14th February 2022

Who really wrote the Gospels? And why does it matter? Garrick and Timothy take on Bart Ehrman’s claim that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John couldn’t have written the Gospels that bear their names.

Jarvis Williams: Redemptive Kingdom Diversity and Apologetics

13th July 2021

For the first time ever, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast reveals the future! It’s the last episode of season 2, and it’s quite possible that your mind won’t be able to handle everything that takes place in this thrilling season finale. Your intrepid cohosts turn out to be not only pastors and […]

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Good Times with the End Times (Part 2) + “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” (R.E.M.)

4th June 2021

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of this two-part series about the end of time! This episode focuses on four truths about the end times that matter far more than any particular perspective on how God will fulfill his eschatological promises. In the process of exploring these four truths, the dynamic duo considers how different views […]

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Good Times with the End Times (Part 1) + “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” (R.E.M.)

3rd June 2021

It’s eschatology and R.E.M. in part one of this two-part almost-the-end-of-the-season mega-episode. The topic is the end times. After discussing some of the greatest apocalyptic tunes in the history of rock and roll, your intrepid cohosts settle on a 1987 hit from R.E.M., “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine).”

Food Trucks in Babylon: Moral Apologetics, Prayer, and the Impassibility of God

7th May 2021

A few months ago, one of our most faithful listeners and favorite supporters Tanner Billson asked a question about apologetics and the impassibility of God. It was a difficult dilemma, so Garrick and Timothy headed to the best place in the world to determine how to deal with difficult dilemmas: superhero comics. That’s because, in […]