Biblical Reliability
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to defend the reliability of the New Testament Gospels to the students of San Jose State University....
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Cold Case Christianity
- Writings
Noah, Gilgamesh, and the Flood: Are They All Remembering the Same Disaster?
Is Jesus REALLY God? Why Three “Chapter Ones” Blew Up My Old View of Jesus
Alien Shock: Would First Century Christians Even Recognize Our Churches?
Is Your Church a “Place Where” or a “People Who”?
Why Christianity Collapses if Jesus Is Anything Less Than God
- Videos
Evidence Isn’t Enough: The Truth That Finally Changed Me (Video)
Are You Really “In Christ”… or Just in Your Career, Marriage, or Ministry? (Video)
A Cold Case Detective Tried To Break the Gospels… and Got Stuck With Jesus (Video)
If Jesus Was Just a Man… Explain This (Video)
Did Christians Invent the Virgin Birth? A Detective Investigates the Evidence (Video)
- Podcasts
Pontius Pilate Was Real—And the Evidence Makes the Gospels Harder to Dismiss (Podcast)
Why Jesus Changed the Way We Pray (Podcast)
The Cross as a Crime Scene: Building the Penal Substitution Case from the Gospels (Podcast)
The Hidden Family Tree of Jesus’ Disciples: Were More of the Twelve Brothers Than We Realize? (Podcast)
Were Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea Actually Saved? The Shocking Truth Behind Jesus’ Burial (Podcast)
Biblical Reliability
If you spend any time online, you’ll eventually see someone dismiss Noah’s flood with a wave of the hand: “That’s just another ancient myth. The Bible...
Biblical Reliability
If you hang around people who claim to be Christians long enough, you’ll hear competing claims about who Jesus really is. Some will say, “Of...
Christian History
Imagine you’re an alien flying in from the other side of the galaxy. As you approach earth, your adjutant says, “There’s a large group down there...
Christian Living
Over time I’ve realized that a lot of our confusion about church can be boiled down into one simple contrast. It’s a distinction I wish I’d...
Biblical Reliability
If you’re trying to determine whether or not the Old Testament is historically reliable, archaeology and ancient non-Biblical records can provide “touch point” corroboration...
Culture
In a recent interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel, James and Kimberly Snead, the couple who took in the Florida school shooter after...
Biblical Reliability
When I first began examining the claims of the Book of Mormon, I was an atheist who had just become interested in the person...
Biblical Reliability
I’ve learned to test witnesses in my criminal investigations before trusting their testimony, and I evaluate them with the template we typically use in jury trials. One...
Current Events
A recent Washington Post article celebrated the naming of Lucas Warren as the 2018 Gerber baby. Every year, the Gerber Products Company selects an...
Jesus
At the age of thirty-five, I was a skeptical detective at a large municipal police agency in Los Angeles County. I was also a...
Jesus
Homicide detectives are perhaps the least trusting people in the country. My own experience investigating murders has taught me to consider everyone a liar...
Jesus
Homicide detectives see a lot of dead people. I certainly saw my share, investigating murders in Los Angeles County for nearly two decades. For...
God / Theism
My cold cases are typically built on circumstantial evidence. Cumulative circumstantial cases are incredibly powerful when considered in their totality; the more diverse the...
Christian Living
Biblical Reliability
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