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.
[Read More...]Metallica (Part 1): Christian Science, the Problem of Evil, and “The God That Failed”
How a nineteenth-century cult known as the Church of Christ, Scientist, impacted James Hetfield and the music of Metallica.
[Read More...]Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: How the Life of the Church Defends the Truth of the Faith
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.
[Read More...]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.
[Read More...]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.
[Read More...]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.
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]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).”
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]Urban Ministry Podcast: Sharing the Gospel in London and Beyond
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 […]
[Read More...]Urban Ministry Podcast: Seeking a Sense of Place in Global Cities
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 […]
[Read More...]Urban Ministry Podcast: Urban Church Planting in Africa
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 […]
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]Urban Ministry Podcast: Church Planting in the Inner City
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 […]
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]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 […]
[Read More...]Urban Ministry Podcast: Working with Local Businesses to Empower Urban Communities
Nathan Ivey is president and founder of Seed to Oaks, a non-profit organization that brings real and lasting change in communities through collaborations between local churches, businesses, and civic agencies, filling the space between the three. These initiatives are proven, strategic and straight forward to implement; designed as a sustainable means for community change that […]
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