J. Warner Wallace: How True Crime Reveals the Truth of God - Timothy Paul Jones
Cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace joins Garrick and Timothy to teach them how true crime points to the truth of God.| Timothy Paul Jones
Cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace joins Garrick and Timothy to teach them how true crime points to the truth of God.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Thomas Kidd: You Might Be a Christian Nationalist If… appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ez42k-170e271 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 […] The post How Multiethnic Churches Provide Proof of God’s Truth with Jamaal Williams appeared first on T...| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Styx, “Mr. Roboto,” and the Metanarrative of God appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Every Christian Is an Apologist Now (Part 2) appeared first on Timot...| Timothy Paul Jones
InterVarsity Press has partnered with Jamaal Williams and me to provide churches with a free In Church as It Is in Heaven video curriculum.| Timothy Paul Jones
Cultural changes have called Christian ethics into question. This has happened before. The apologetics of the second century provide hope.| Timothy Paul Jones
Garrick and Timothy travel back in time to see what contemporary Christians might learn from a second-century apologist named Aristides.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Jen Wilkin: How Bible Literacy Equips the Church to Defend the Faith appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Small groups in churches throughout the United States are using the new book In Church as It Is in Heaven: Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture. In case your church is considering using this book, I wanted to make certain that you’re aware of the free six-week curriculum that we’ve produced in partnership with InterVarsity Press. […] The post In Church as It Is in Heaven: Free Curriculum to Help Your Church Cultivate Multiethnic Kingdom Culture appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Multiethnic kingdom culture celebrates a diversity of ethnicities in the same community while seeing Christ himself as our supreme identity.| Timothy Paul Jones
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.| Timothy Paul Jones
Apologetics is a defense that includes evidence which calls for holiness and is centered in the hope of the resurrection.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Josh McDowell: How to Know God Exists appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
The topic of today’s discussion with Kyle Beshears is “apatheism,” a term coined to describe people who don’t care whether God exists.| Timothy Paul Jones
When Christianity is no longer assumed to be good, we are all apologists. The 2nd-century apologist Aristides equips us do apologetics better.| Timothy Paul Jones
A language that you don’t use is a language you’ll lose—which is why so many pastors who labored so hard over Greek vocabulary and verb paradigms in seminary end up losing most of what they learned. The only way to maintain your knowledge of another language is to use that language regularly. And so, my […] The post A New Plan for Reading through the Greek New Testament in 2023 appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Huey Lewis and the News: The Holy Trinity and “The Power of Love” appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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. The post Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Abortion, Apologetics, and the End of Roe v. Wade appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Michael Kruger, president of the Charlotte campus of the Reformed Theological Seminary and preeminent scholar of early Christianity, joins us to talk about the reliability of the copies and the canon of the New Testament. The post Michael Kruger: What If Our Bibles Don’t Have the Right Words? appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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. The post Keith Plummer: Doubt, Deconstruction, and an Apologetic of Kindness appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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? The post Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Did the Council of Nicaea Choose the Books in My Bible? appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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. The post Metallica (Part 2): The Problem of Evil, the Power of Shame, and “The God That Failed” appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
How a nineteenth-century cult known as the Church of Christ, Scientist, impacted James Hetfield and the music of Metallica. The post Metallica (Part 1): Christian Science, the Problem of Evil, and “The God That Failed” appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Apologetics: Final Examination for Christian Apologetics—Spring 2022 appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
It's the end of apologetics! That's what a recent book by Myron Bradley Penner claims, which is big if true.| Timothy Paul Jones
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. The post Dan Kimball: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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.| Timothy Paul Jones
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. The post Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Who Really Wrote the Gospels? appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Once upon a time, there was a season in the church year known as “Advent.” The word comes to us from the Latin for “coming.” The purpose of the season was to anticipate the coming of Christ to earth; it was a season that focused on waiting. As early as the fourth century AD, Christians […] The post Advent: The Difficult Discipline of Celebrating the Waiting appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Apologetics: Care for the Poor and the Parentless as an Apologetic for the Truth of God appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Jarvis Williams: Redemptive Kingdom Diversity and Apologetics appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post 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.) appeared...| Timothy Paul Jones
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).” The post 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.) appeared ...| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Food Trucks in Babylon: Moral Apologetics, Prayer, and the Impassibility of God appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […]| Timothy Paul Jones
Jacob Boss is Affinity Leader for European Peoples with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Prior to his current role in London, he served two years as the Vice President of Global Training for Meridian University. At Meridian, he implemented a series of simple and reproducible tools that have helped to develop […] The post Urban Ministry Podcast: Sharing the Gospel in London and Beyond appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Michael Crane serves as a director of Radius Global Cities Network, a think tank for urban missions research. Passionate about church planting, he helped to launch a church planting network in Southeast Asia called Gospel City Network. Michael also serves on the faculty of two graduate schools. He has authored or co-authored several books, including […]| Timothy Paul Jones
Stephen Dinkins and his family moved to East Africa in 2013 to serve with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Stephen now serves as the Nairobi City Team Leader in Nairobi, Kenya. In this episode, Stephen and Timothy discuss the distinct dynamics of urban church planting in sub-Saharan Africa. For more information […] The post Urban Ministry Podcast: Urban Church Planting in Africa appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Pastors in the past weren’t afraid to preach for conversions. Should we be preaching for conversions today?| Timothy Paul Jones
James Fields has spent the past two years in a church revitalization; he joins Timothy on the Urban Ministry Podcast to talk about it.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Mary Jo Sharp: A Former Atheist Looks at the Problem of Evil + “One of Us” (Joan Osborne) appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Brian Davis serves as a pastor at Risen Christ Fellowship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed a church planting internship at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, North Carolina as well as a pastoral internship at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. Brian joins Timothy to discuss the distinct dynamics of planting a church in the […]| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Apologetics: Five Reminders to Strengthen Your Defense of the Faith appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
If you’ve enjoyed Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast over the past couple of years, I wanted to encourage you to take a look at a new line of items that’s being made available to spread the word about this podcast. You can take a look at the items here: http://www.patreon.com/threechordsandthetruth Thanks to this partnership […] The post Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast on Patreon appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
What’s unique about being a pastor’s wife? Amber Williams and Karen Cheong share wisdom from their years of experience in the church.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Job, Jesus, and the Existential Problem of Evil + “You Found Me” (The Fray) a...| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Evidential Problem of Evil + “God’s Love” (Bad Religion) appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Raymond Johnson serves as senior pastor at Christ Church West Chester in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and he’s also the author of I See Dead People: The Function of the Resurrection of the Saints in Matthew 27:51–54 (P&R). Christ Church in West Chester has experienced a profound revitalization under Raymond’s leadership. In this episode, Raymond Johnson […] The post Urban Ministry Podcast: Revitalizing Churches in Urban Contexts appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
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 […] The post Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Logical Problem of Evil + Pop (U2) appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
