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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: Who Wrote the Gospels?

17th July 2020

Open your Bible to the table of contents and take a look at the list of books in the New Testament. There, you’ll find the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John leading the list. But were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John really the ones who wrote the Gospels? If so, how do we know?

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: authorship, Bart Ehrman, canon, Gospels, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New Testament

Culture: Why Pay Taxes?

13th July 2020

This week, millions of Americans will once again endure the filing and, in some cases, the payment of taxes—three months late, this time around, due to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. Taxation has never been particularly popular among Americans, having once incited several dozen Bostonians to dress up as Mohawk warriors and toss tea […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: Gospels, John Wesley, kingdom, tax, Tertullian

Culture: How Scripture Became Part of the Story that Ended Slavery

19th June 2020

For centuries, the Scriptures were twisted and distorted to provide support for racism and race-based slavery. It is no exaggeration to state that the enslavement of African Americans would never have persisted as long as it did without the support of persons who claimed to follow Scripture. At the same time, Christian ethics were also one […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: African American, black, Black Lives Matter, church history, Gregory of Nyssa, Juneteenth, race, racial justice, racism, slavery, Southern Baptist

J. Warner Wallace: A Cold-Case Detective Looks at the Gospels + “Another Brick in the Wall” (Pink Floyd)

12th May 2020

What happens when a cold-case detective applies his investigative skills to the New Testament Gospels? Find out as Timothy meets up with award-winning detective and bestselling apologetics author J. Warner Wallace. In addition to being a detective and apologist, Wallace is also a guitarist, bassist, and—Timothy is thrilled beyond words to discover—a fan of Steve […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Books, History, Learn, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Another Brick in the Wall, apologetics, evidentialism, Gospels, history, J. Warner Wallace, pig, Pink Floyd, presuppositionalism

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Is the Coronavirus Evil? + “Sympathy for the Devil” (The Rolling Stones)

28th April 2020

It’s a new season of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, and Garrick and Timothy are serious about social distancing. They are, in fact, so serious about being socially distant that they’ve installed a mile-wide river to separate them. In the first half of this earthshaking season premiere, your intrepid cohosts discuss a recent […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, History, Learn, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Augustine, Bavinck, coronavirus, COVID-19, Garrick Bailey, Hulk Hogan, Mick Jagger, natural evil, problem of evil, Rolling Stones, Satan, surd evil, Sympathy for the Devil, the Devil, Timothy Paul Jones

Apologetics: Why Should I Trust the Bible? Interview

22nd April 2020

Here’s an interview from a recent conversation that I had with my friend Jared Kennedy. The topic of our discussion was my new book Why Should I Trust the Bible? You can listen to the interview here.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Book reviews, Learn Tagged With: apologetics, author, book, Jared Kennedy, Why Should I Trust the Bible?

Apologetics: Which Canon Contains the Right Books?

22nd April 2020

Believing What Jesus Believed About the Old Testament Canon Different communities of people who call themselves Christians use different Old Testaments. Here’s what I mean: Everyone agrees about thirty-nine of the texts in the Old Testament, but—if you attended Mass in a Roman Catholic congregation this weekend—the Old Testament readings would come from a canon […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, canon, church history, history

Apologetics: Did Cornelius Van Til Really Teach that Non-Christians Know Nothing?

11th February 2020

I am not a Van Tilian presuppositionalist, though I am sympathetic with certain aspects of Cornelius Van Til’s approach. Over the past few years, I have—to the best of my knowledge—read every book and syllabus that Van Til wrote related to apologetics. Even after reading several thousand pages of Cornelius Van Til’s writings, I do […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Book reviews, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Cornelius Van Til, critic, criticism, criticisms, criticisms of Van Til, critics, critique, critiques, Hegel, idealism, Kelly James Clark, misunderstandings of Van Til, presuppositional, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, transcendental argument, Van Til, Van Tilian, Van Tillian

Apologetics: Natural Theology, Evidential Apologetics, and Thomas Aquinas in Stanley Hauerwas’s Gifford Lectures

4th February 2020

I recently finished reading With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology, the published text of Stanley Hauerwas’s 2001 Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews. In one sense, this particular iteration of the Gifford Lectures was a failure—but it can hardly be regarded as an authentic failure, because the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Book reviews, Learn Tagged With: antithesis, Aquinas, church history, Cornelius Van Til, ecclesiology, Gifford Lectures, Hauerwas, history, presuppositionalism, Reinhold Niebuhr, Stanley Hauerwas, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, William James

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Are the Stories of Jesus Borrowed from Pagan Parallels to Christianity? + “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (Billy Joel)

31st December 2019

This week’s podcast includes pagan parallels to Christianity, the Piano Man, and the most daring giveaway ever attempted on any human podcast. Paganism and plagiarism provide the theme for the first half. Even in ancient times, Roman philosophers claimed that Christians had “used pagan myths in fabricating the story of a virgin conception.” So is […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Books, History, Learn, ministry, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Baby Groot, Baby Yoda, Billy Joel, Christmas, cuteness, Groot, in the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep, Infinity Gauntlet, Mithraism, Mithras, Mythras, pagan, pagan origins, Pagan parallel, pagan parallels, paganism, Piano Man, resurrection, River of Dreams, virgin birth, We Didn’t Start the Fire, Yoda

Study: Read through the Greek New Testament in a Year

17th December 2019

After a few years of using other Bible reading plans, I’m returning in 2020 to a plan that I’ve used in the past to read through the New Testament in Greek each year. The plan that I’ve found most useful for that is one from Denny Burk, which is based on a plan prepared by […]

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Filed Under: Blog, In the News, Learn Tagged With: canon, church history, gospel, Gospels, Greek, history, New Testament

Apologetics: Fragments of Otherwise Unknown Gospels

26th November 2019

Gnostic Gospels and other unorthodox texts receive a lot of attention in popular media. The Gospel of Judas and the forged Gospel of Jesus’ Wife both became major news stories, for example, and a wide array of Gnostic texts are mentioned in novels like The Da Vinci Code that feed on bizarre conspiracy theories. It’s worth remembering, however, that there are […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Gnostic, gnostic gospels, Gospels, Oxyrhynchus

Apologetics: The Providence of God in Persecution

12th November 2019

In his article “For Whom Were the Gospels Written?,” Richard Bauckham points out that a small minority group experiencing alienation and opposition in its immediate social context could compensate for its precarious minority position locally by a sense of solidarity with fellow believers elsewhere and a sense of being part of a worldwide movement destined […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Book reviews, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Gospels, New Testament Gospels, Richard Bauckham

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Three Chords and the Truth Live with Five Oaks Church

2nd September 2019

In this special episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey join the student ministry at Five Oaks Church, a radical band of young believers who gather near the metropolis of Minneapolis in the wild and crazy land of Minnesota. Students from Five Oaks Church ask questions […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, canon, capos, creation, Five Oaks, hallucination, hallucination hypothesis, Kyser, live, Minnesota, New Testament, Old Testament, old-earth creation, problem of evil, resurrection, swoon, swoon theory, theodicy, wrong tomb, young-earth creation

Sean McDowell: Resurrection, Sacrifice, and Why Sean McDowell Didn’t Love Avengers: Endgame + “Hotel California” (The Eagles)

4th June 2019

Sean McDowell joins Garrick and Timothy to talk about love, sacrifice, superheroes, and resurrection. Then, Garrick and Timothy go looking for transcendent truth in the Grammy Award-winning classic “Hotel California.” Along the way, they talk about Sehnsucht, plagiarism, and that one time when Timothy was looking for the founder of the Church of Satan but couldn’t find him.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, cross, Eagles, Endgame, Hotel California, Iron Man, love, Marvel Cinematic Universe, resurrection, sacrifice, Sean McDowell, Spider-Man, The Eagles

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