Some topics are too amazing to fit into a single episode. Metallica is one of them. In this second part of this dive into the music of Metallica, Garrick and Timothy look at the theology behind the 1991 song “The God That Failed.” Along the way, your intrepid cohosts include an audio clip from the […]
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Metallica (Part 1): Christian Science, the Problem of Evil, and “The God That Failed”
Finally, after three years of this podcast, the time has come to talk about something that we’ve rarely talked about before on this podcast. It’s time to talk about … … Metallica. The first part of this two-part series focuses on how being raised as a Christian Scientist impacted lead vocalist James Hetfield’s life and […]
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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: How the Life of the Church Defends the Truth of the Faith
It’s the end of apologetics! Well, at least that’s what a recent book by Myron Bradley Penner claims, which is big if true. If apologetics has reached its end, after all, your intrepid cohosts will soon need to bid adieu, a tout le monde, since there’s no need for an apologetics podcast if the extinction […]
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Dan Kimball: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
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.
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J. Warner Wallace: What Could We Know About Jesus If Every Bible in the World Disappeared?
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.
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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Who Really Wrote the Gospels?
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.
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Jarvis Williams: Redemptive Kingdom Diversity and Apologetics
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 […]
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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.)
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 […]
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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.)
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).”
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Food Trucks in Babylon: Moral Apologetics, Prayer, and the Impassibility of God
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 […]
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Mary Jo Sharp: A Former Atheist Looks at the Problem of Evil + “One of Us” (Joan Osborne)
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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Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast on Patreon
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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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Job, Jesus, and the Existential Problem of Evil + “You Found Me” (The Fray)
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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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Evidential Problem of Evil + “God’s Love” (Bad Religion)
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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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Logical Problem of Evil + Pop (U2)
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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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Soul Movie
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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Josh Chatraw: The Apologetics of Blaise Pascal + “Superstition” (Stevie Wonder)
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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Sean McDowell: Getting the Gospel to Generation Z + “Baba O’Riley” (The Who)
“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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Josh Chatraw and Stephen Presley: How to Do Apologetics Like the Early Church
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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Alisa Childers: The False Gospel of Progressive Christianity + “I Want to Know What Love Is” (Foreigner)
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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