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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 […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Family Ministry, History, Music reviews, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: abortion, apologetics, Athenagoras, Athenagoras of Athens, pro birth, pro choice, pro life, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Tertullian, Tertullian of Carthage

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Books, History, Podcast, Solve, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Bart Ehrman, Michael Kruger, Misquoting Jesus, New Testament, nomen sacrum, nomina sacra, Reformed Theological Seminary, Textual criticism

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, Blog, Book reviews, History, ministry, music review, Music reviews, pastoral care, Podcast, racism, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: apologetics, Before You Lose Your Faith, Belferlein, belt, Cairn University, cincture, deconstruction, deconversion, dog, doubt, Facebook, Instagram, Keith Plummer, kind, kindness, Martin Luther, Mary, science, scientism, social media, technology, Twitter

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?

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Books, History, Learn, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Arianism, Arius, Athanasius, Bible, canon, Clement, Clement of Rome, Council of Nicaea, Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, Edward the Confessor, New Testament, Nicea, Nicholas, Nikolaus, Old Testament, phoenix, Scripture

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Black Album, Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly, Christian Science, Church of Christ Scientist, Cliff Burton, Enter Sandman, forgiveness, James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Metallica, pornography, problem of evil, reading room, shame, Thorn Within, Unforgiven

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Lead, leadership, ministry, music review, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, ecclesial, ecclesial apologetics, Garrick Bailey, Josh Chatraw, Myron Bradley Penner

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Book reviews, Family Ministry, History, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Antonello, apologetics, Benny Goodman, church history, Dan Kimball, donkey in a bathtub, emergent church, Francis of Paola, history, How (Not) to Read the Bible, How to Read the Bible, inerrancy, Lance of Destiny, Lance of Longinus, pet trout, The Clash, They Like Jesus But Not the Church, trout, unicorns, Vintage Faith, Vintage Faith Church

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, pastoral ministry, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Bible, church history, detective, history, J. Warner Wallace, Jesus, New Testament, Person of Interest

11th century codex of the Gospels

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.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: author, Bart Ehrman, church history, defenestration, defenestration of prague, Gospels, holy prepuce, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New Testament, prepuce

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 […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, Blog, Book reviews, Books, featured, History, Learn, ministry, music review, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, racism, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: African American, African-American church, apologetics, Baker Academic, Bible, black, black church, critical race theory, critical theory, CRT, diversity, ethnic diversity, gospel, grace, Jarvis Williams, multicultural, multicultural church, multiethnic, multiethnic church, New Testament, prophecy, race, racial reconciliation, racism, redemptive kingdom diversity, SBTS, social justice, Sojourn Church, Sojourn Community Church, Southern Seminary, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Village Church, Village Institute

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 […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Books, History, Lead, leadership, Learn, ministry, music review, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Accelerate, amillennial, amillennialism, apologetics, Bavinck, church history, end times, eschatology, Herman Bavinck, history, It’s the End of the World, Juergen Moltmann, Jurgen Moltmann, Moltmann, postmillennial, premillennial, R.E.M., tribulation

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).”

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, Movie Reviews, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: amillenial, apocalypse, apocalyptic, Augustine, chiliasm, dispensational, dispensationalism, end times, eschatology, Herman Bavinck, It’s the End of the World, postmillennial, postmillennialism, posttribulation, premillennial, premillennialism, pretribulation, R.E.M., tribulation

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 […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, leadership, Learn, music review, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Beastie Boys, ethics, Food Trucks in Babylon, Gary Cherone, Herman Bavinck, immutability, impassibility, James 3, Journey, Michael W. Smith, moral, moral apologetics, Pearl Jam, prayer, Ryan Lister, superheroes, Superheroes Can’t Save You, theology proper, Todd Miles, Van Halen

Urban Ministry Podcast: Sharing the Gospel in London and Beyond

7th April 2021

Jacob Boss is Affinity Leader for European Peoples with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Prior to his current role in London, he served two years as the Vice President of Global Training for Meridian University. At Meridian, he implemented a series of simple and reproducible tools that have helped to develop […]

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Filed Under: Audio, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Jacob Boss, London, urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: Seeking a Sense of Place in Global Cities

24th March 2021

Michael Crane serves as a director of Radius Global Cities Network, a think tank for urban missions research. Passionate about church planting, he helped to launch a church planting network in Southeast Asia called Gospel City Network. Michael also serves on the faculty of two graduate schools. He has authored or co-authored several books, including […]

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Filed Under: Audio, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: Urban Church Planting in Africa

10th March 2021

Stephen Dinkins and his family moved to East Africa in 2013 to serve with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Stephen now serves as the Nairobi City Team Leader in Nairobi, Kenya. In this episode, Stephen and Timothy discuss the distinct dynamics of urban church planting in sub-Saharan Africa. For more information […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: africa, african, church planting, Dehoney Center, International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Stephen Dinkins, urban, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast, Urban Ministry Traning

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

Urban Ministry Podcast: Church Planting in the Inner City

10th February 2021

Brian Davis serves as a pastor at Risen Christ Fellowship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed a church planting internship at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, North Carolina as well as a pastoral internship at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. Brian joins Timothy to discuss the distinct dynamics of planting a church in the […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Brian Davis, urban ministry podcast

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