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Be an apologist without being a jerk

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: How to Be an Apologist without Being a Jerk

14th March 2023

You don’t have to be a jerk to be an apologist. In fact, if you’re being a jerk, you’re not doing apologetics in a biblical way, because biblical apologetics calls Christians to defend the faith in “meekness and fear” (1 Peter 3:15b). So how can you be an apologist without being a jerk? One of […]

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Josh McDowell

Josh McDowell: How to Know God Exists

21st February 2023

If they made apologetics action figures, Josh McDowell would be one of the figures in the first set. If they made apologetics trading cards, Josh McDowell’s card would be in a collectible foil pack. He has toured with the pioneering Christian rock band Petra, and his book Evidence that Demands a Verdict was selected by […]

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Kyle Beshears: Apatheism, Mormonism, and Theological Shoegazing

14th February 2023

Welcome to the Apathetic Episode of The Apologetics Podcast! An episode focused on apathy and apatheism probably seems appropriate to all of you who have noticed how apathetic Garrick and Timothy have been about releasing new episodes for the past few months. But that wasn’t actually due to anyone’s apathy! It was because Timothy needed to […]

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Huey Lewis and the News: The Holy Trinity and “The Power of Love”

9th August 2022

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones have already devoted one entire episode of this podcast to love. That was when they discussed Foreigner’s 1984 hit “I Want to Know What Love Is.” But Garrick and Timothy are far too full of love to fit all of their feelings about love into a single episode. That’s why they’re […]

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Keith Plummer: Doubt, Deconstruction, and an Apologetic of Kindness

5th July 2022

Welcome to the Very Kind Episode! Of course, almost every episode of this podcast is kind of kind, mostly because Garrick is just that kind of person, but this episode is particularly kind, because we’re joined by Dr. Keith Plummer.

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Metallica (Part 2): The Problem of Evil, the Power of Shame, and “The God That Failed”

17th May 2022

The dynamic duo ends this two-part episode with a powerful look at how the gospel answers the dilemmas of shame and unforgiveness that emerge as such dominant themes in Metallica’s later albums.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Black Album, Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly, Christian Science, Church of Christ Scientist, Cliff Burton, Enter Sandman, forgiveness, James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Metallica, pornography, problem of evil, reading room, shame, Thorn Within, Unforgiven

Metallica (Part 1): Christian Science, the Problem of Evil, and “The God That Failed”

17th May 2022

How a nineteenth-century cult known as the Church of Christ, Scientist, impacted James Hetfield and the music of Metallica.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: How the Life of the Church Defends the Truth of the Faith

26th April 2022

In an act of heroism of a sort that hasn’t been seen since the conclusion of Avengers: Endgame, Garrick and Timothy bravely prevent the end of apologetics. Also, they show how Live Aid would never have happened in 1985 if it hadn’t been for the rise of Christianity nearly two thousand years earlier.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Lead, leadership, ministry, music review, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, ecclesial, ecclesial apologetics, Garrick Bailey, Josh Chatraw, Myron Bradley Penner

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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Who Really Wrote the Gospels?

14th February 2022

Who really wrote the Gospels? And why does it matter? Garrick and Timothy take on Bart Ehrman’s claim that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John couldn’t have written the Gospels that bear their names.

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Jarvis Williams: Redemptive Kingdom Diversity and Apologetics

13th July 2021

For the first time ever, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast reveals the future! It’s the last episode of season 2, and it’s quite possible that your mind won’t be able to handle everything that takes place in this thrilling season finale. Your intrepid cohosts turn out to be not only pastors and […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, Blog, Book reviews, Books, featured, History, Learn, ministry, music review, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, racism, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: African American, African-American church, apologetics, Baker Academic, Bible, black, black church, critical race theory, critical theory, CRT, diversity, ethnic diversity, gospel, grace, Jarvis Williams, multicultural, multicultural church, multiethnic, multiethnic church, New Testament, prophecy, race, racial reconciliation, racism, redemptive kingdom diversity, SBTS, social justice, Sojourn Church, Sojourn Community Church, Southern Seminary, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Village Church, Village Institute

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Good Times with the End Times (Part 2) + “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” (R.E.M.)

4th June 2021

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of this two-part series about the end of time! This episode focuses on four truths about the end times that matter far more than any particular perspective on how God will fulfill his eschatological promises. In the process of exploring these four truths, the dynamic duo considers how different views […]

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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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Food Trucks in Babylon: Moral Apologetics, Prayer, and the Impassibility of God

7th May 2021

A few months ago, one of our most faithful listeners and favorite supporters Tanner Billson asked a question about apologetics and the impassibility of God. It was a difficult dilemma, so Garrick and Timothy headed to the best place in the world to determine how to deal with difficult dilemmas: superhero comics. That’s because, in […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, leadership, Learn, music review, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Beastie Boys, ethics, Food Trucks in Babylon, Gary Cherone, Herman Bavinck, immutability, impassibility, James 3, Journey, Michael W. Smith, moral, moral apologetics, Pearl Jam, prayer, Ryan Lister, superheroes, Superheroes Can’t Save You, theology proper, Todd Miles, Van Halen

Mary Jo Sharp: A Former Atheist Looks at the Problem of Evil + “One of Us” (Joan Osborne)

23rd February 2021

Why do atheists see the problems of evil as such a problem for Christians? And is the problem of evil really as problematic as some atheists seem to think? Those are a few of the many questions that Timothy explores in this episode with Mary Jo Sharp. A former atheist who’s now a faithful follower of […]

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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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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Evidential Problem of Evil + “God’s Love” (Bad Religion)

19th January 2021

In the previous episode, Garrick and Timothy debunked the logical problem of evil. But dealing with the problem of evil requires far more than mere logic! The problem of evil also calls for a close examination whether or not the overwhelming amount of evil in the world might make God’s existence unlikely. That brings your […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Bad Religion, defense, Empire Strikes First, evidential problem of evil, Greg Graffin, problem of evil, theodicy

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Logical Problem of Evil + Pop (U2)

12th January 2021

According to a survey of recent college graduates, the problem of evil is the issue that makes it most difficult for many of these graduates to trust in the truth of Christianity. These students’ struggles mirror the struggle that biblical scholar Bart Ehrman describes in his book God’s Problem: “I felt compelled to leave Christianity […]

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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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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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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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