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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

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: 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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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, History, Movie Reviews, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: 22, African American, afterlife, Andrew Root, Andy Root, barber shop, black, Black Panther, Charles Taylor, cinema, Disney, expressive individualism, film, Gnostic, Gnosticism, inside out, jazz, jon batiste, jonathan batiste, Josh Chatraw, movie, Pixar, podcast, race, racism, soul, spark, The End of Youth Ministry, theater, theology, Three Chords Goes to the Movies

Culture: How Scripture Became Part of the Story that Ended Slavery

19th June 2020

For centuries, the Scriptures were twisted and distorted to provide support for racism and race-based slavery. It is no exaggeration to state that the enslavement of African Americans would never have persisted as long as it did without the support of persons who claimed to follow Scripture. At the same time, Christian ethics were also one […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: African American, black, Black Lives Matter, church history, Gregory of Nyssa, Juneteenth, race, racial justice, racism, slavery, Southern Baptist

Culture: The Long Shadow of Racism in America

11th May 2020

The institution of American slavery has been called America’s “national birth defect.” “Black Americans were”—in the words of one professor of political science—“a founding population [of the American colonies]. Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together, Europeans by choice and Africans in chains.” These events happened far more recently than many Americans seem […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, black, George Whitefield, manstealing, Middle Passage, racial justice, racism, Scripture, slave trade, slavery

Podcast: How the Inner City Became the Way It Is

17th April 2019

To listen or to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, click here. The inner city is defined by poverty—literally. The inner city has been defined as a region in a metropolitan area in which 20 percent or more of households live in poverty and where the median household income is 50 percent or less than […]

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Filed Under: Audio, black church, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: black church, inner city, racial, racism, urban ministry

Sermon: The Difficult Journey Toward Deep Diversity

25th April 2017

“It is appalling,” Martin Luther King, Jr., once pointed out, “that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” One of the primary reasons that churches remain segregated today is because white Christians failed to acknowledge the full humanity of their African-American sisters and brothers many years ago. For many African […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: Acts, Acts 15, Ben Witherington, circumcision, deep diversity, diversity, message, proclamation, racial reconciliation, racism, sermon

Church History: William Wilberforce and the End of the British Slave Trade

22nd March 2017

In late March, 1807, the British slave trade came to an end. One of the key figures in the battle against the British slave trade was an evangelical Christian named William Wilberforce. Wilberforce was short—about five feet, three inches in stature—and suffered from poor health, but he was eloquent and witty. He became a member […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead, Learn, Video Tagged With: history, racism, slavery, Wilberforce

Sermon: That Awkward Text About Noah that No One Wants to Preach

21st March 2017

In every Sunday School lesson and Bible storybook about Noah that I recall from my childhood, the ark-builder’s story ended in triumph. In sermons, if they mentioned this text at all, it ended with a “curse of Ham.” Noah saves the animals and sees the sign of God’s covenant—and, with that, the account of Noah […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, featured, Lead Tagged With: alcoholism, covenant, curse of Ham, drunk, drunkenness, ethnic, ethnicity, Genesis, Genesis 9, Ham, Japheth, message, Noah, race, racism, rainbow, sermon, Shem, Village Church

Culture: The Failure of White Evangelicals in the Civil Rights Movement

16th January 2017

A few months ago, Justin Taylor interviewed four evangelical historians about the role of Southern white evangelicals in the American Civil Rights Movement. It is a lengthy and painful read, but it provides a much-needed perspective on white evangelicals’ persistent failure to challenge systemic racism. Here are a few excerpts: Matt Hall: The unfortunate reality […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: justice, Martin Luther King, racism

Family Ministry: Discipleship and Family in African-American History

15th November 2016

A few months ago, I sat down with my colleagues Kevin Smith and Kevin Jones to discuss the dynamics of discipleship and family ministry in African-American communities. Rev. Smith is the executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland and Delaware. Dr. Jones is a scholar of the history of education and coauthor of the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, African-American history, black history, Kevin Jones, Kevin Smith, racial reconciliation, racism

Church History: The Racist Heresy in Southern Baptist History

15th September 2016

The founders of the Southern Baptist Convention and of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary were zealous defenders of biblical orthodoxy. They were also heretics.

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, church history, race, racism

Culture: Remembering Emmett Till

2nd September 2016

In September 1955, the bloated and broken corpse of Emmett Till arrived in Chicago. His mother identified his body and made the decision to leave his casket open for the funeral. “Let the people see what I’ve seen,” she told the owner of the funeral home, and the people did. What they saw changed the world.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: African American, African-American history, black history, Emmett Till, racism

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