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

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,”...

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Dan Kimball: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence,...

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...

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

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...

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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Who Really Wrote the Gospels?

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...

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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Good Times with the End Times (Part 2)...

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...

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Josh Chatraw: The Apologetics of Blaise Pascal + “Superstition” (Stevie Wonder)

Faith happens, and this week’s episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast is all about how faith happens. In the first half, Garrick and Timothy are joined by Josh Chatraw, the...

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Ted Cabal: Creation and the Age of the Earth + “Let There Be Rock” (AC/DC)

This episode is packed with answers in Genesis—but, believe it or not, when we say “Genesis” we’re not talking about the group that’s been fronted by Phil Collins since the early 1970s from which Mike...

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Theology: Grace as a Mirror for God’s Glory

“The all-embracing slogan of the Reformed faith is this: the work of grace in the sinner is a mirror for the glory of God.” —Geerhardus Vos, “The Doctrine of the Covenant,” in Redemptive History and...

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Church History: How a Tract About a King’s Marriage Cost William Tyndale His...

Video courtesy of Rose Publishing While Martin and Katie Luther were turning Wittenberg into a launching-point for the reformation in Germany, King Henry VIII was launching a very different reformation...

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Church History: How Christians Settled an Argument About Election

:: Defenestration and Divine Election in Seventeeth-Century Europe :: By the opening years of the seventeenth century, the Reformation had turned European Christianity into a conglomeration of...

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Church History: How the Anabaptists Challenged the Place of the State in...

The first wave of Reformers never quite escaped the idea that the church and the government ought somehow to be linked with one another. This arrangement had been around ever since the fourth century...

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Church History: The Centrality of Preaching in the Ministry of John Calvin

Courtesy of DesiringGod.org Martin Luther wasn’t the only lawyer who became a leader in the Reformation. In 1534 another lawyer traveled along another rutted road. His life had been shaken in much the...

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Apologetics: Natural Theology, Evidential Apologetics, and Thomas Aquinas in...

I recently finished reading With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology, the published text of Stanley Hauerwas’s 2001 Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews....

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Apologetics: Which Canon Contains the Right Books?

Believing What Jesus Believed About the Old Testament Canon Different communities of people who call themselves Christians use different Old Testaments. Here’s what I mean: Everyone agrees about...

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Study: Read through the Greek New Testament in a Year

After a few years of using other Bible reading plans, I’m returning in 2020 to a plan that I’ve used in the past to read through the New Testament in Greek each year. The plan that I’ve found most...

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Church History: The True Story of St. Patrick

The post Church History: The True Story of St. Patrick appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.

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Church History: When Did Churches Stop Baptizing by Immersion?

As part of my research for the chapter on baptism in a recent book written by the faculty of Southern Seminary, one of the questions that I wanted to answer was, “When did churches leave behind the New...

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Church History: The Centrality of Scripture in the Ministry of Macrina

Two years after the Council of Nicaea in the year 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...

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Blog: Most-Read Posts of 2016 and Plans for 2017

Around twenty-seven thousand people racked up nearly one hundred thousand views of this blog in 2016. If you were one of them, thank you! Since there are no advertisements on my site, I don’t profit...

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Culture: Is Christianity Headed South?

Is Christianity headed south? Year after year, Western culture continues to grow increasingly secularized. Secularization is—in the words of Baptist theologian R. Albert Mohler— the process by which a...

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