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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

Apologetics: Free Apologetics Curriculum and a Book about Why the Bible Can Be Trusted

5th March 2020

Have you ever been asked why you believe the Bible is true? It might be that you’ve even asked yourself that question at some point. It’s a question that I’ve asked too! And it’s the question that I set out to answer in Why Should I Trust the Bible? The purpose of this book is simple: […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Books Tagged With: Why Should I Trust the Bible?

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

Podcast: Developing Deep Community in Urban Contexts

24th June 2019

Suppose God has called you to plant a church in the city, and you’re struggling simply to gather an initial core group to launch the new congregation. When someone asks you about small groups, you might wonder, “Do I really need to think about small groups? Why isn’t enough simply to have an outstanding Sunday morning worship experience and deal with groups later, after the church is growing?” If you think that gathering in small groups is optional, you need to listen to this episode of Urban Ministry Podcast. Today, my guest on the Urban Ministry Podcast is Brad House, the author of Community: Taking Your Small Group Off Life Support and the coauthor with Gregg Allison of the book Multichurch. The focus of our discussion is the unique dynamics of small groups in urban contexts and the need for small groups even in the early stages of church planting.

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Filed Under: Audio, Books, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Brad House, cities, city, community, loneliness, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill, Multichurch, podcast, small groups, Sojourn, Sojourn Community Church, urban, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Leadership: Followership and the Privilege of Pastoral Leadership

10th December 2018

All of us are called to follow someone’s instructions. Effective leadership is not forging a solo path ahead of others; it’s learning to follow the right instructions from the right leader at the right time. Dysfunctions in Christian leadership were typically dysfunctions in followership long before they became dysfunctions in leadership.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, Lead, Serve Tagged With: B&H, Broadman and Holman, Christ-centered followership, church, followership, leadership, Michael S. Wilder, Michael Wilder, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral leadership, pastoral ministry, The God Who Goes Before You, video

Leadership: What’s the Point of Priesthood in the Church Today?

22nd October 2018

This post on prophet, priest, and king as leadership typology is excerpted from my book The God Who Goes Before You. You can purchase the book here. Over the past century, several Reformed scholars and church leaders have presented the threefold office of Christ—the munus triplex of prophet, priest, and king—as a typology for church […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: John Frame, king, leadership, Mark Driscoll, munus triplex, priest, priesthood, prophecy, prophet, typology, Vern Poythress

Leadership: A Disposition toward Submission

15th October 2018

This post on suffering and submission in leadership was written with Michael Wilder and is excerpted from our book The God Who Goes Before You: Pastoral Leadership as Christ-Centered Followership. You can order the book here. After a meal with his disciples in the upper room, Jesus made his way to a familiar place (John 18:2) […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Father, garden, Gethsemane, Jesus, leader, leadership, prayer, shepherd, submission, suffering

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: The God Who Goes Before You

1st October 2018

Today, The God Who Goes Before You is finally available in bookstores! This book on leadership develops a fresh definition of pastoral leadership that is thoroughly grounded in the storyline and canon of Scripture. As the book unfolds, what Michael Wilder and I have developed together is a vision for the leadership of God’s people […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Book reviews, Books, featured, Lead, Serve Tagged With: followership, leadership, shepherd, The God Who Goes Before You

Leadership: Kingly Leadership in the New Covenant

24th September 2018

This post is excerpted from my book The God Who Goes Before You: Pastoral Leadership as Christ-Centered Followership.You can order the book here. What does kingship 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.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Serve, Uncategorized Tagged With: church, church discipline, Corinthians, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Israel, Judah, king, kingdom, kingly, kings, kingship, leadership, monarchy, Paul

Leadership: Leadership as Followership in the Life of Moses

17th September 2018

This post was written with Michael Wilder and is excerpted from our book The God Who Goes Before You. You can order the book here. Incompetent Leaders, Omnicompetent God The opening verses of Exodus invite readers into a story that stretches backward through Abraham to the very beginning of time. Moses wrote that “the Israelites were […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Exodus, followership, I AM, Israel, leadership, Moses, Old Testament, Old Testament leadership

Leadership: Leadership as Followership in the Life of Moses

17th September 2018

This post was written with Michael Wilder and is excerpted from our book The God Who Goes Before You. You can order the book here. Incompetent Leaders, Omnicompetent God The opening verses of Exodus invite readers into a story that stretches backward through Abraham to the very beginning of time. Moses wrote that “the Israelites were […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Exodus, followership, I AM, Israel, leadership, Moses, Old Testament, Old Testament leadership

Leadership: Shepherd Leadership as God-Centered Followership

10th September 2018

This post on shepherd leadership is excerpted from my book The God Who Goes Before You. You can order the book here. The Failure of Israel’s Shepherds Have you ever faced a situation where someone did such a poor job on a project that you declared, “I’ll just do it myself”? That’s not too different from […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ezekiel, Israel, Jeremiah, Judah, leader, leadership, sheep, shepherd, shepherd leader

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

Leadership: “No, You Idiot, Your Team at Home …”

4th October 2016

Dayton Moore, general manager of the Kansas City Royals, had a friend who asked him from time to time how his team was doing. Moore would begin talking about his baseball team and the friend would respond, “No, you idiot, … your team at home”—reminding Moore that his faithfulness as a husband and father mattered […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead Tagged With: Dayton Moore, family, Kansas City, pastor, Royals

Writing: Using Evernote to Write Your Book

8th September 2016

Evernote has been an essential tool in the completion of my past two books, and several of my doctoral students have asked me to describe how I use Evernote to move projects from initial ideas and tables of contents to completed book manuscripts.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Learn Tagged With: Evernote, iPad, writing

Leadership: A Kingdom-Shaped Vision for Church Discipline

30th August 2016

“To him who … made us a kingdom, be glory and dominion forever,” John declared in the opening paragraphs of the apocalypse he penned on the island of Patmos (Revelation 1:5-6). Living in union with Christ the King, God’s new covenant people have been made into “a kingdom of priests” (Exodus 19:6). But what does […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead Tagged With: discipline, kingdom, leadership

Apologetics: How the Meaning of “Canon” Changed from a River Reed to a Book We Read

22nd August 2016

Recently, I had a conversation with Jonathan Petersen at Bible Gateway about the origin and meaning of the word “canon.” Here’s an excerpt from our discussion: Jonathan: What is the definition of “canon”? TPJ: The meaning of the word canon as we know it today can be traced back to how the Greeks used a […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Books, featured, History Tagged With: apologetics, Bible Gateway, canon, how we got the Bible

Apologetics: Was Jesus Married?

8th August 2016

Ariel Sabar, writing for The Atlantic, has presented clear and convincing evidence that the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife is a forgery. Dr. Karen King unveiled the fragment in 2012 and suggested that the Coptic text came from a fourth-century copy of an otherwise-unknown second-century Gospel. The clause that gave the fragment its name was found […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Books, featured, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: Ariel Sabar, Gospel of Jesus' Wife, Jesus, Karen King, marriage, Mary Magdalene, sex, wife

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

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