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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Did the Council of Nicaea Choose the Books in My Bible?

8th June 2022

The books of the Bible were selected in the year 325 at the Council of Nicaea, right? That’s what a lot of Christians seem to think. But is this story true? And, if it isn’t true, how did the tale of a council that created the canon begin in the first place?

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Books, History, Learn, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Arianism, Arius, Athanasius, Bible, canon, Clement, Clement of Rome, Council of Nicaea, Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, Edward the Confessor, New Testament, Nicea, Nicholas, Nikolaus, Old Testament, phoenix, Scripture

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

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

Robert Plummer: Do the Gospels Tell the Truth? + “Truth, Goodness, and Beauty” (The Cure)

19th May 2020

What does it mean to say that the Bible tells the truth? Do the Gospels tell the truth? And what should Christians do when they find a claim in the Bible that looks like a contradiction? Do the Gospels Tell the Truth? New Testament scholar and Daily Dose of Greek mastermind Rob Plummer joins Garrick […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, Bible, history, inerrancy, presuppositional, presuppositionalism, Rob Plummer, Robert Smith, The Cure, Worldview

Sermon: The Wisdom that Comes from Peace

20th August 2018

“Peace be with you.” Christians all around the world repeat these words every week—but what would our lives look like if peace really was woven into every part of our lives? The book of James provides us with a clue: “The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace,” James writes, “by those who cultivate peace” […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, James, James 3, leadership, message, New Testament, pastoral ministry, peace, preaching, sermon, wisdom

Apologetics: How Can the Bible be Inerrant if Copyists Made Mistakes?

7th January 2018

How can the Bible be inerrant if there are variations among the manuscripts and even between different accounts of the same events? That’s the question we’ll explore together in this post. How Can We Have the Word of God If Some of the Words Are Different? I slumped in an unpadded pew, half-listening to the morning […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Bible, New Testament, Scripture

Church History: Macrina and the Supreme Authority of Scripture

17th July 2017

Two years after the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, Macrina the Younger was born. She—as Coleman Michael Ford has pointed out— lived between two worlds. One world was the age of Christian persecution by the likes of emperor Diocletian and others. For many Christians in the three centuries before Macrina’s birth, persecution leading to […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Uncategorized Tagged With: Basil, Bible, church history, Gregory, Macrina, Scripture, slavery

Church History: How William Tyndale Changed the World

6th October 2016

On October 6, 1536, William Tyndale was burned at the stake. He was only forty-two years old or so at the time, but the work he had already accomplished in those four decades of life would change the world. You’ve probably seen the bumper sticker: “If you can read, thank a teacher.” Another bumper sticker—or […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Video Tagged With: Bible, history, Reformation, Tyndale

Family Ministry: Teaching Your Children How We Got the Bible

5th October 2016

This week, 480 years ago, William Tyndale was strangled to death and then burned. One of his offenses was the translation of the Bible into English from Hebrew and Greek—a capital crime at that time. Not even death, however, could stop the impact of Tyndale’s translations. The words that Tyndale left behind would reshape not […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: Bible, how we got the Bible, Michael McAfee, Museum of the Bible, Tyndale, William Tyndale

Giveaway: Win a Free How We Got the Bible Timeline

3rd October 2016

This week, 480 years ago, William Tyndale was executed and burned at the stake. Tyndale, perhaps more than any other individual, helped to make the Bible accessible to English-speaking people. And so, I’m giving away three timelines this week to help you to understand how we got the Bible! You’ll need a Twitter account and […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, In the News Tagged With: Bible, giveaway, how we got the Bible

Church History: Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, and the Word of God for Every Person

6th July 2015

In 1415, a church council gathered in the city of Constance. One of the items on their agenda was a heresy trial. In addition to ending a decades-long multiplicity of popes, the Council of Constance concluded that two particular priests had turned into heretics and that both of them must be burned. There was, however, […]

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Filed Under: Blog, History, Learn Tagged With: Bible, Jan Hus, John Wycliffe

Apologetics: Dealing with Discrepancies in the Biblical Text

8th January 2014

The content that I present in this video may also be found in my book Misquoting Truth. (c) 2008 Coral Ridge Ministries. Used by permission. Click here to purchase full DVD.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Bible, biblical criticism, Scripture

Apologetics: Can We Trust a Copy of a Copy?

25th September 2013

  I slumped in an unpadded pew, half-listening to the morning Bible study. I wasn’t particularly interested in what the Bible teacher in this small Christian high school had to say. But, when the teacher commented that the Gospels always reported word-for-word what Jesus said, I perked up and lifted my hand. This statement brought […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Bible, history, New Testament, Scripture

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