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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

Jamaal Williams and Timothy Paul Jones: What Is “Multiethnic Kingdom Culture” and Why Does It Matter?

13th July 2023

Heaven is a multiethnic kingdom culture. 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 […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, critical race theory, critical theory, Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture, Cultivating Multiethnic Kingdom Culture, In Church as It Is in Heaven, Jamaal Williams, Jarvis Williams, multiethnic, multiethnic church, multiethnic kingdom culture, Timothy Paul Jones, woke, wokeness

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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Resurrection Jesus Saves

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Resurrection-Centered Apologetics

7th March 2023

This episode begins with the infancy of Jesus and ends with his resurrection. It’s Garrick who brings up the infancy of Jesus, and it happens in the Raiders of Church History segment in a manner that’s far more awkward than Timothy anticipated. This episode is the first—and hopefully the last—time that lactation has ever been […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Learn, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Gospels, history, resurrection

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

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Abortion, Apologetics, and the End of Roe v. Wade

25th July 2022

Christians have been talking about abortion far longer than you may have imagined. Abortion has even shown up in apologetics conversations, although probably not in the ways that you would expect.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Family Ministry, History, Music reviews, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: abortion, apologetics, Athenagoras, Athenagoras of Athens, pro birth, pro choice, pro life, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Tertullian, Tertullian of Carthage

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

In a skeptical age, we need more apologetics, not less

Apologetics: Final Examination for Christian Apologetics—Spring 2022

30th April 2022

It’s final examination week again at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary! That means another final examination in my favorite class in the world to teach, 28700 Christian Apologetics. What that means for students in the on-campus class is an opportunity to demonstrate and to apply what they’ve learned throughout the semester. What that means for […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog Tagged With: 28700, apologetics, Christian Apologetics, examination, final, final examination, School of Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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

Dan Kimball: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

22nd March 2022

Dan Kimball joins The Apologetics Podcast this week to talk about his most recent book, How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Book reviews, Family Ministry, History, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Antonello, apologetics, Benny Goodman, church history, Dan Kimball, donkey in a bathtub, emergent church, Francis of Paola, history, How (Not) to Read the Bible, How to Read the Bible, inerrancy, Lance of Destiny, Lance of Longinus, pet trout, The Clash, They Like Jesus But Not the Church, trout, unicorns, Vintage Faith, Vintage Faith Church

J. Warner Wallace: What Could We Know About Jesus If Every Bible in the World Disappeared?

22nd February 2022

What if every single copy of the Bible went fluttering away, never to be seen again? If that happened, surely all of our knowledge about Jesus would be gone as well, right? Not so fast, says cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, pastoral ministry, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Bible, church history, detective, history, J. Warner Wallace, Jesus, New Testament, Person of Interest

Care for the poor

Apologetics: Care for the Poor and the Parentless as an Apologetic for the Truth of God

18th November 2021

This week, I am presenting a paper at the 2021 meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society entitled “‘Something Divine Mingled Among Them’: Care for the Poor and the Parentless as Ecclesial Apologetic in the Second Century.” For those who are interested, here is the paper and the slideshow: Slideshow: PDF slideshow of presentation Paper: Paper […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, ministry, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: apologetics

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

In a skeptical age, we need more apologetics, not less

Apologetics: Final Examination for Christian Apologetics—Spring 2021

27th April 2021

It’s final examination week at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary! That means another final examination in my favorite class in the world to teach, 28700 Christian Apologetics. What that means for students in the on-campus class is an opportunity to demonstrate and to apply what they’ve learned throughout the semester. What that means for those […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn Tagged With: 28700, apologetics, Christian Apologetics, final examination, Southern Seminary, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: 1995, apologetics, college ministry, Emancipation, Joan Osborne, Mary Jo Sharp, One of Us, Prince, problem of evil, Relish, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Why I Still Believe

Apologetics: Five Reminders to Strengthen Your Defense of the Faith

9th February 2021

1. Apologetics is not an apology; apologetics is a defense that includes evidence. I was in my late teens the first time I read the words “apologetics” and “apologist.” At first, I thought these words had something to do with Christians apologizing for misdeeds undertaken in the name of Christ. It didn’t take long for […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics Tagged With: 1 Peter, apologetics, Peter, resurrection

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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