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J. Warner Wallace: How True Crime Reveals the Truth of God

4th February 2025

Welcome to the true crime episode of The Apologetics Podcast—an episode so good it’s almost criminal! Cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace joins your intrepid cohosts to teach them how true crime points to the truth of God. Wallace’s latest book The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Learn, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, J. Warner Wallace, podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, true crime

Thomas Kidd: You Might Be a Christian Nationalist If…

29th October 2024

What is a “Christian nationalist” and how do you know if you might be one? That’s the question Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones ask distinguished American historian Thomas Kidd. Along the way, Garrick and Timothy discover that the answer isn’t nearly as scary as some people seem to think. Garrick does, however, suggest a […]

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

Multiethnic church

Jamaal E. Williams: How Multiethnic Churches Provide Proof of God’s Truth

22nd October 2024

Heaven is multiethnic. Are you ready for that? The Bible tells us that the congregation gathered around God’s heavenly throne will be “a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language,” all singing the praises of the Lamb. God’s intention has always been to delight for all eternity in a redeemed community of ethnic […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, church history, critical race theory, critical theory, Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture, history, In Church as It Is in Heaven, Jamaal Williams, leadership, multiethnic, multiethnic kingdom culture, racism

Styx, Mr. Roboto

Styx: “Mr. Roboto” and the Metanarrative of God

15th October 2024

Kilroy Was Here! During World War 2, “Kilroy Was Here” described a type of graffiti that American soldiers chalked on walls wherever they went. In 1983, the phrase gained a completely different meaning. That’s when the band Styx developed a rock opera and concept album—complete with a ten-minute dystopian science-fiction film—in response to accusations that […]

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

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Every Christian Is an Apologist Now (Part 2)

26th March 2024

This is the second half of an exciting two-part episode of The Apologetics Podcast. Garrick and Timothy are still adventuring through time with a second-century apologist named Aristides, exploring three key points in his apologetic that addressed those that were skeptical of Christianity in his day. Aristides understood that every Christian is an apologist—and that’s […]

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

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Every Christian Is an Apologist Now (Part 1)

19th September 2023

In this thrilling two-part episode of The Apologetics Podcast, Garrick and Timothy go back to the future. Or, perhaps more precisely, they go back to the second century for the sake of the future. In the book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, theologian Carl Trueman points out that the church’s challenges of […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, apologist, Aristides, faculty address, The Apologetics Podcast

Jen Wilkin: How Bible Literacy Equips the Church to Defend the Faith

12th September 2023

In this episode, your intrepid cohosts learn why they need to get literate. “Bible literate,” to be exact. According to author and Bible teacher Jen Wilkin, Bible literacy is a vital tool when it comes to apologetics—and “Bible literacy” is not the same thing as “biblical literacy.” Biblical literacy means knowing about the Bible. Bible […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Bible literacy, Boston, Jen Wilkin, New Testament, Queen, The Village

Be an apologist without being a jerk

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: 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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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, leadership, Learn, ministry, music review, Music reviews, pastor, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, apologist

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

apatheism

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

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

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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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, Blog, Book reviews, History, ministry, music review, Music reviews, pastoral care, Podcast, racism, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: apologetics, Before You Lose Your Faith, Belferlein, belt, Cairn University, cincture, deconstruction, deconversion, dog, doubt, Facebook, Instagram, Keith Plummer, kind, kindness, Martin Luther, Mary, science, scientism, social media, technology, Twitter

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: Ecclesial Apologetics

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

11th century codex of the Gospels

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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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: author, Bart Ehrman, church history, defenestration, defenestration of prague, Gospels, holy prepuce, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New Testament, prepuce

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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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Books, History, Lead, leadership, Learn, ministry, music review, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Accelerate, amillennial, amillennialism, apologetics, Bavinck, church history, end times, eschatology, Herman Bavinck, history, It’s the End of the World, Juergen Moltmann, Jurgen Moltmann, Moltmann, postmillennial, premillennial, R.E.M., tribulation

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

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

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