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Urban Ministry Podcast: Replanting and Revitalizing Urban Congregations

24th February 2021

Thousands of churches in urban contexts are ripe for revitalization—but church revitalization isn’t easy! James Fields has spent nearly two years working with a congregation near Churchill Downs in Louisville, seeking to revitalize a once-thriving church. He joins Timothy Paul Jones to discuss what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what he’s learned. For more information about […]

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Filed Under: city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Churchill Downs, Harbor Network, James Fields, Sojourn, Sojourn Church, Sojourn Network, urban ministry

Urban Ministry Podcast: Church Planting in the Inner City

10th February 2021

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 […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Brian Davis, urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: The Role of the Pastor’s Wife

27th January 2021

What is the role of the pastor’s wife? Amber Williams and Karen Cheong serve faithfully as members of Sojourn Church Midtown in inner-city Louisville, Kentucky, and they join Timothy Paul Jones to discuss the unique role that the pastor’s wife plays in the urban church. For more information about Sojourn Church Midtown, please go to […]

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Filed Under: black church, Blog, city, Family Ministry, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: family, family ministry, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Job, Jesus, and the Existential Problem of Evil + “You Found Me” (The Fray)

26th January 2021

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 […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, leadership, ministry, music review, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, cross, defense, Epicurean dilemma, Epicurean Paradox, existential problem of evil, God’s problem, Jesus, Job, kenosis, pastoral care, pastoral problem of evil, problem of evil, problem of suffering, suffering, The Fray, theodicy, You Found Me

Urban Ministry Podcast: Revitalizing Churches in Urban Contexts

13th January 2021

Raymond Johnson serves as senior pastor at Christ Church West Chester in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and he’s also the author of I See Dead People: The Function of the Resurrection of the Saints in Matthew 27:51–54 (P&R). Christ Church in West Chester has experienced a profound revitalization under Raymond’s leadership. In this episode, Raymond Johnson […]

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: church planting, Philadelphia, Raymond Johnson, revitalization, urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: Working with Local Businesses to Empower Urban Communities

6th January 2021

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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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Nathan Ivey, Seed to Oaks, urban, urban ministry

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

Russell Moore: The Search for a Satisfying Story + “He Went to Paris” (Jimmy Buffett)

22nd September 2020

Sometimes, the best defense of the gospel isn’t a better argument but a better story. That’s why the previous episode about Josh Chatraw’s book Telling a Better Story and this episode with Russell Moore both focus on narrative apologetics. Also: after an episode in which your intrepid cohosts dredged the depths of some of the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, leadership, ministry, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, C.S. Lewis, ERLC, ethics, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Frederick Buechner, fundamentalism, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Mere Christianity, narrative, Neil Gaiman, Paul McCartney, Petra, Russell Moore, story, storyline, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, This Means War

Family Ministry: What Should We Do with Children in Community Groups?

18th February 2020

One question that I frequently receive from churches runs something like this: “There are so many children in our community groups! We want to do something with them, but we can’t figure out what to do. Right now, groups are just hiring babysitters, but there’s got to be a better way. What do we do […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, leadership, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry Tagged With: children, community groups, family ministry, fellowship groups, group, groups, home groups

Family Ministry: Leaving Behind the One-Eared Mickey Mouse Model of Youth Ministry

28th January 2020

In the late 1980s, one student minister depicted the relationship between his ministry and the rest of his congregation as a “one-eared Mickey Mouse.” To understand this analogy, imagine with me the most basic depiction of Mickey Mouse in three circles—the two smaller circles represent his ears, while the larger circle is his head. Now, […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, History, leadership, pastoral care, pastoral ministry Tagged With: family ministry, one-eared Mickey Mouse, student ministry, youth ministry

Family Ministry: Pursuing Diversity in Your Church

7th January 2020

Pursuing the Discipline of Diversity “It gets you out of your solitary conceit.” That’s how C.S. Lewis described the impact of worshiping and cultivating Christian community alongside people who are different from us. And yet, in too many local churches, authentic diversity in which people from dissimilar sociocultural and ethnic backgrounds pursue Christ together remains […]

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Filed Under: black church, Blog, Lead, leadership, ministry, urban, urban ministry

Podcast: Helping Your Church to Share the Gospel with Refugees, with John Barnett

28th October 2019

GUEST: John Barnett More than 68 million individuals are currently displaced due to religious persecution, war, or other violence. Globally, one out of every 110 people is either seeking asylum, displaced within their own country, or a refugee. Many of these individuals seek refuge in cities throughout the United States. But how should Christians respond […]

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: DefaultTag

Podcast: Developing Multicultural Worship Experiences in Urban Contexts, with Jonny Barahona

14th October 2019

GUEST: Jonny Barahona God’s people are called to sing to one another! In the words of Paul to the Colossian church, “Let the word of Christ dwell among you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with thankfulness in your hearts.” But how should […]

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Filed Under: black church, city, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: DefaultTag

Urban Ministry Podcast: Developing an Urban Missions Ministry in Your Church

30th September 2019

How could your church begin to engage the poor, the suffering, and the marginalized? And what might God do in your church, if this became part of your vision for the future? With us today is Jesse Eubanks, the founder and executive director of Love Thy Neighborhood. If neighborhood outreach is part of your church’s vision, you won’t want to miss this episode of Urban Ministry Podcast.

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Love Thy Neighborhood, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Podcast: Diversifying the Church’s Discipleship, with Kevin Jones

16th September 2019

GUEST: Kevin Jones  One of the most beautiful aspects of urban ministry is its diversity. Ethnic diversity! Racial diversity! Socioeconomic diversity! But this diversity can also be a challenge when it comes to evangelism and discipleship. The gospel and the Word of God are the tools that God uses to transform people’s lives, no matter […]

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: DefaultTag

Urban Ministry Podcast: What Stands in the Way of Diversity in the Church?

3rd September 2019

GUEST: Jamaal Williams Click here to listen to this episode of the Urban Ministry Podcast. There is in the New Testament a trajectory toward diversity. Jesus begins by calling together a group of Jewish males and then his circle of disciples expands to include women and Samaritans and then the risen Christ commissions his disciples […]

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: DefaultTag

Podcast: How Christians Can Become Partners in Public Education, with Kevin Jones

19th August 2019

GUEST: Kevin Jones Click here to listen to this episode of the Urban Ministry Podcast. In 2010, for the first time in human history, more than half of the people on this planet lived in urban contexts. In the past, many churches have taken a “rescue mission” approach to lower-income urban areas, providing charity for […]

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: DefaultTag

Urban Ministry Podcast: Loving Your Neighbor in the Inner City

5th August 2019

GUEST: Jamaal Williams Click here to listen to this episode of the Urban Ministry Podcast. If you’re the pastor of an inner-city church, should you live in the same neighborhood as your church? And, if so, what are some of the unique challenges and opportunities of living in the inner city? That’s what we will […]

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Filed Under: Audio, black church, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: inner city, Jamaal Williams, Sojourn, Sojourn Community Church, urban, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Podcast: Learning to Love Your City

22nd July 2019

Click here to listen to this episode of the Urban Ministry Podcast. God did not create us as disembodied or decontextualized creatures. He created us as physical beings who live in particular places. And, in the beginning, he called Adam and Eve to cultivate their physical space and to create culture in the context where […]

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: DefaultTag

Podcast: Caring for Your Family as a Church Planter

8th July 2019

What you do for God beyond your home will typically never be greater than what you practice with God within your home. Whether you’re single or married, with children or without, your family has a profound impact on your ministry. That’s why one of the qualifications that Paul gave for pastors was “to manage his own household well.” So how can you as a pastor or a church planter care for your family well? I have with me today two urban pastors–Charles Shannon and Nick Nye–to discuss this topic. If you want to lead your family well as a pastor, you won’t want to miss this episode of the Urban Ministry Podcast.

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Filed Under: Audio, black church, Blog, chuch planting, city, Family Ministry, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: urban ministry podcast

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