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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

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Why Apologetics? + “God Gave Rock and Roll to You” (KISS)

8th March 2019

Click here to download this episode from iTunes and learn why apologetics matters. Welcome to a new episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast! Three Chords and the Truth is a new podcast that brings together apologetics, theology, and the history of rock and roll. In the Three Chords segment of this week’s program, Garrick Bailey […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, featured, History, Learn, Movie Reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, KISS

Leadership: Priestly Leadership in the New Covenant

8th October 2018

What does priesthood in the Old Testament have to do with church leadership today? Quite a lot, as it turns out—though perhaps not in the way you would assume! Priestly leadership isn’t about becoming a priest; it isn’t even about becoming a caregiver or counselor for the people of God. To understand the implications of […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Learn, Serve, Uncategorized Tagged With: Moses, old covenant, Old Testament, priest, priesthood, priestly, teach, teacher, teaching

Leadership: Priestly Leadership in the New Covenant

4th September 2018

What does priesthood in the Old Testament have to do with church leadership today? Quite a lot, as it turns out—though perhaps not in the way you would assume! Priestly leadership isn’t about becoming a priest; it isn’t even about becoming a caregiver or counselor for the people of God. To understand the implications of […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Learn, Serve, Uncategorized Tagged With: Moses, old covenant, Old Testament, priest, priesthood, priestly, teach, teacher, teaching

Writing: If You Want to Remember It, Write It By Hand

7th January 2018

Words and writing matter. In the opening chapter of the Scriptures, God speaks, and a cosmos bursts into being (Genesis 1:3). When he constitutes Israel as his  people, God speaks and writes, and a covenant is born (Exodus 31:18). John described the incarnation of God in Christ by declaring, “the Word became flesh” (John 1:14).

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, Lead, Learn Tagged With: fountain pen, fountain pens, handwriting, learning, notebook, paper, pedagogy, pen, pens, preaching, teaching, writing

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part One)

27th November 2017

When did age-organized ministries for children begin? If you thought children’s classes didn’t begin until the introduction of Sunday School, you have a lot to learn!

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead, Learn, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Weed in the Church, children, children's ministry, church history, church leadership, family integrated, family integrated church, family integrated ministry, family ministry, history, John Calvin, leadership, Reformation, Reformed, Reformed theology, Scott Brown, youth, youth ministry

Church History: Macrina and the Supreme Authority of Scripture

17th July 2017

Two years after the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, Macrina the Younger was born. She—as Coleman Michael Ford has pointed out— lived between two worlds. One world was the age of Christian persecution by the likes of emperor Diocletian and others. For many Christians in the three centuries before Macrina’s birth, persecution leading to […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Uncategorized Tagged With: Basil, Bible, church history, Gregory, Macrina, Scripture, slavery

Family Ministry: DiscipleGuide Church Leaders Cruise

14th June 2017

Interested in apologetics and family ministry? If so, then you’re likely to be interested in this upcoming conference. God willing, I will be part of an experience in January 2018 that will bring together apologetics and family ministry in a way that will equip you and your church’s staff for far more effective future ministry.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, In the News, Learn, Serve, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Carnival Valor, children's ministry, cruise, DiscipleGuide, family ministry, student ministry, winter, youth ministry

Church History: The True Story of Joan of Arc

30th May 2017

On May 30, 1431, Jeanne D’Arc—more commonly known to us as “Joan of Arc”—was tied to a pillar in the village of Rouen and burned to death. Nearly everyone has heard of Joan’s unjust execution—but who was this young woman, really? According to a recent survey, one out of every eight Americans thought that Joan […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Video Tagged With: church history, history, Joan of Arc

Church History: William Wilberforce and the End of the British Slave Trade

22nd March 2017

In late March, 1807, the British slave trade came to an end. One of the key figures in the battle against the British slave trade was an evangelical Christian named William Wilberforce. Wilberforce was short—about five feet, three inches in stature—and suffered from poor health, but he was eloquent and witty. He became a member […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead, Learn, Video Tagged With: history, racism, slavery, Wilberforce

Blog: Most-Read Posts of 2016 and Plans for 2017

3rd January 2017

Around twenty-seven thousand people racked up nearly one hundred thousand views of this blog in 2016. If you were one of them, thank you! Since there are no advertisements on my site, I don’t profit from any of the content. And so, if you’ve profited from what I’ve written, please consider purchasing a book (or two […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, In the News, Lead, Learn, Movie Reviews, Serve, Solve, Video Tagged With: apologetics, church history, family ministry, history, leadership, year in review

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