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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.)

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

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Soul Movie

7th January 2021

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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Lisa V. Fields: Apologetics through Eyes of Color + “Crossroads” (Robert Johnson)

28th July 2020

The blues, Robert Johnson, and The Jackson 5 are a few of the stars of this week’s episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast. Lisa V. Fields—popular apologetics speaker and founder of the Jude 3 Project—joins Timothy to discuss a recent apologetics curriculum from Jude 3 Project. Along the way, Lisa reveals […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, Blog, Book reviews, History, Movie Reviews, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, racism, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: 1877, African American, alchemy, apologetics, black church, black colleges, Cream, Crossroads, devil, Eric Clapton, Faust, HBCU, Jim Crow, Jude 3 Project, Karate Kid, Lisa Fields, Lisa V. Fields, Mississippi, Ralph Macchio, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ry Cooder, Satan, selling soul, selling soul to the devil, selling your soul, soul, Steve Vai, sundown laws, sundown towns, Theophilus of Adana, Willie Brown

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Three Chords Goes to the Movies: Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

24th December 2019

On May 25, 1977, a young filmmaker named George Lucas released a space fantasy that he had simply titled Star Wars. Over the past four decades, this story has developed into one of the most influential cultural phenomena of the modern era. Now, with the release of Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, the saga that began In 1977 has drawn to a end—and what an ending it is!

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Movie Reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: episode 9, George Lucas, Lucasfilm, movies, Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars

Culture: Comic-Book Superheroes in a Christian Worldview

23rd April 2019

“Comics are the new Bible,” film critic Anne Billson recently declared, “and devotees never tire of seeing their idols save the world.” Her elevation of comic books to canonical status in the culture is overstated, but I think she may be close to the truth in suggesting that part of the current appeal of comics is […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, Movie Reviews Tagged With: Batman, Bono, C.S. Lewis, Captain America, DC, Francis Schaeffer, Iron Man, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Schaeffer, superheroes, Superman, Thor, Tolkien, U2, Worldview

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: What Is Apologetics? + “The Age of Aquarius” (The 5th Dimension)

8th March 2019

Click here to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. 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 and I talk about what apologetics is and why Christians should care about it; […]

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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

Culture: The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Metanarrative of God

12th November 2018

Every human being is hungry for a single overarching storyline that ties all of our smaller stories together. Since 2008, evidence for this hunger has been as close as your nearest cinema. That’s when the release of Iron Man marked the genesis of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not merely a series of movies, neatly […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, In the News, Movie Reviews Tagged With: comics, Marvel, metanarrative

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

Culture: A Quick Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

3rd September 2016

At the center of God’s story stands this singular act: In Jesus Christ, God personally intersected human history and redeemed humanity at a particular time in a particular place. Yet this central marvel of redemption does not stand alone. It is bordered by God’s good creation and humanity’s fall into sin on the one hand […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, Movie Reviews, Video Tagged With: film, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, movie

Family Ministry: The Best Tool to Filter Films for Your Family

31st August 2016

My family and I enjoy movies—a lot. The problem is, there are many movies that, for us at least, are too riddled with unnecessary profanity and sexual innuendo to enjoy together. And, honestly, I know that I myself am unable to deal well with any sexual nudity in a film. Other Christians have different convictions […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Learn, Movie Reviews

Culture: Iron Man 2 and the Metanarrative of God

19th August 2016

This exploration of Iron Man 2 is the fourth in a series of posts exploring theological themes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You can find the rest of the series here. I recommend using VidAngel to filter the content of this film for your family. Every part of Tony Stark seems to have been forged in […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, Learn, Movie Reviews, Solve, Video Tagged With: Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Marvel, superheroes, Tony Stark

Culture: The Incredible Hulk and the Metanarrative of God

12th August 2016

This exploration of The Incredible Hulk is the third in a series of posts exploring theological themes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You can find the rest of the series here. I recommend using VidAngel to filter the content of this film for your family. Spider-Man teaches us that, with great power, comes great responsibility. Iron […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, Movie Reviews, Video Tagged With: comics, Hulk, Marvel

Culture: Iron Man and the Metanarrative of God

5th August 2016

This exploration of Iron Man is the second in a series of posts exploring theological themes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You can find the rest of the series here. I recommend using VidAngel to filter the content of this film for your family. The Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008 with the story of Tony Stark, […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, Movie Reviews Tagged With: comics, Iron Man, Marvel

Culture: The Worldview of Star Wars

30th December 2015

To coincide with what has become one of the biggest movie premieres in history, The Christian Examiner discussed the theology behind the Star Wars universe with me. Why is our society so enamored with Star Wars? Incessant merchandising, of course, has been part of it from the very beginning. But there are a couple of additional […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, Family Ministry, featured, Movie Reviews Tagged With: Star Wars

Culture: The Value of a Life in Panem [from 2012 review of The Hunger Games]

22nd November 2013

“The future shape of the world,” Baptist theologian R. Albert Mohler has noted, “appears to be a worldview competition between Christianity, Islam, and Western secularism.” The Hunger Games film and books present us with a world where the worldview competition is over in North America, and Western secularism has won. Centuries in the future, the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Book reviews, Learn, Movie Reviews Tagged With: apologetics, Catching Fire, culture, death, ethics, Hunger Games, secularism, theology

Culture: Katniss and the Minotaur [from 2012 review of The Hunger Games]

11th November 2013

The bestselling novel and blockbuster movie The Hunger Games provoked a wide range of reactions among evangelical Christians. A reviewer from Focus on the Family finds in the female protagonist a heroine who determines to value human life, even if that means sacrificing her own. Alvin Reid and Amy Simpson glimpse the gospel throughout the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Book reviews, Learn, Movie Reviews Tagged With: Catching Fire, culture, Hunger Games, theology

The Value of a Life in Panem: A Review of The Hunger Games

3rd April 2012

“The future shape of the world,” Baptist theologian R. Albert Mohler has noted, “appears to be a worldview competition between Christianity, Islam, and Western secularism.” The Hunger Games film and books present us with a world where the worldview competition is over in North America, and Western secularism has won. Centuries in the future, the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Book reviews, Learn, Movie Reviews, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, culture, death, ethics, Hunger Games, secularism, theology

The Coal Miner’s Daughter Meets the Minotaur: A Review of The Hunger Games

27th March 2012

The bestselling novel and blockbuster movie The Hunger Games provoked a wide range of reactions among evangelical Christians. A reviewer from Focus on the Family find in the female protagonist a heroine who determines to value human life, even if that means sacrificing her own. Alvin Reid and Amy Simpson glimpse the gospel throughout the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Book reviews, Learn, Movie Reviews Tagged With: culture, Hunger Games, theology

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