Episode 8: ‘Too Good to be False’ Through the Gospels
Announcing a change in the plan for this podcast: Instead of a weekly podcast of 20-25 minutes, I’ll be publishing up to 3 times a week,...
September 7, 2020
Episode 7: Skeptics Answer ‘Too Good to be False’
How will unbelievers answer the case for the Gospels in Too Good to be False? We haven’t heard from major skeptics yet, though I’m sure that’s...
August 30, 2020
Episode 6: Jesus: Not an ‘Ordinary Rabbi’ Story
Bob Seidensticker, atheist blogger at Patheos, tells us that if you “strip away” the miraculous from the story of Jesus, “you’re left with a fairly ordinary...
July 20, 2020
Episode 5: Three Great Secrets in Too Good to be False
For the whole year and a half I’ve been working on Too Good to be False, I’ve felt like I’ve been sitting on a secret —...
July 12, 2020
Episode 4: Jesus and America’s Freedoms
People keep asking if America is a Christian country. Usually the question focuses on the Founders: Were they believers? Did they intend this to be a Christian nation? In this episode of the Thinking Christian podcast, Tom Gilson takes a different angle on the question, exploring how strongly Jesus influenced our country’s founding, its Constitution, and its values, whether the Founders were Christians or not. Even taking our most horrible mistakes, slavery and racism, into account, Jesus’ impact is still undeniable.
July 4, 2020
Episode 3: An Unexpected Question About Jesus
On this episode of the Thinking Christian Podcast, we see that sometimes the best way to learn more about Jesus is by asking a question about him that no one’s expecting. Here’s one that I’m sure you weren’t expecting.
This material is adapted from the forthcoming book Too Good to Be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality. Be sure to subscribe to the newsletter at Thinking Christian.net so you can get your free preview copy of chapter 1.
June 29, 2020
Podcast 2: Jesus Can Still Surprise You
Jesus can still surprise you.
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been following him, and it doesn’t matter how much you’ve read the gospels. He’s still going to surprise you with the unexpected. In this episode of the Thinking Christian podcast, I share two huge surprises in his life: His use of authority in his teaching, and his “leadership style,” which (according to the textbooks) never should have worked. Yet it did.
This material is condensed from the forthcoming Too Good to Be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality. Be sure to subscribe to the newsletter so you can got your free preview copy of chapter 1.
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June 22, 2020
Podcast Episode 1: “Too Used To Jesus”
On this inaugural episode of a revamped Thinking Christian podcast, Tom Gilson describes a problem undermining American Christianity, subtly yet definitely: We’ve grown to used to Jesus. Drawing from images of biblical persons who knew Jesus, and contemporary non-Christians who may never even have heard of him, he leads us toward a new appreciation of Jesus’ amazing magnificence. And then he invites us to consider just how much it could change our Christian lives if we quit being quite so used to Jesus. (This episode is adapted from a June 11 Thinking Christian blog post.)
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June 13, 2020
October Ministry Update
So much going on — sometimes it gets to be so much it’s hard to find time to say it all. Where even to begin? Wev’e...
October 9, 2018
