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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast is hosted by J. Warner Wallace. J. Warner is a Dateline featured cold-case homicide detective, Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, adjunct professor of apologetics at Biola University and a faculty member at Summit Ministries.

The Cold-Case Christianity podcast explores the evidence for God's existence, the reliability of the Bible and the truth of the Christian worldview. Please visit our website at www.ColdCaseChristianity.com.

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast J. Warner Wallace

    • Religion & Spirituality
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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast is hosted by J. Warner Wallace. J. Warner is a Dateline featured cold-case homicide detective, Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, adjunct professor of apologetics at Biola University and a faculty member at Summit Ministries.

The Cold-Case Christianity podcast explores the evidence for God's existence, the reliability of the Bible and the truth of the Christian worldview. Please visit our website at www.ColdCaseChristianity.com.

    Making a Case for God from the Beginning of the Universe

    Making a Case for God from the Beginning of the Universe

    In this podcast, J. Warner examines the evidence of the origin of the universe and relates this evidence to the case for God’s existence. Jim describes the classic Cosmological Argument and compares naturalistic alternatives offered to explain the universe’s origin. Does the beginning of the universe demonstrate the existence of God?

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Is Contentment a Journey Rather Than a Destination?

    Is Contentment a Journey Rather Than a Destination?

    Why is contentment often so elusive? What is the basis for contentment and how can we better understand and approach it? In this episode of the podcast, J. Warner talks with Dave Jenkins, the author of Contentment: The Journey of A Lifetime as they explore contentment as defined in Scripture. Dave provides practical help for those who want to gain contentment in their own lives.

    • 44 min
    Investigating the Evidence for the Pro-Life Position

    Investigating the Evidence for the Pro-Life Position

    In this podcast, J. Warner continues an examination of the pro-life arguments he used in his discussion with the atheist in last week’s podcast. Jim describes the SLED paradigm popularized by Scott Klusendorf of Life Training Institute and examines the Biblical position related to the status of the unborn.

    • 1 hr 27 min
    The Journey from Skepticism to Certainty

    The Journey from Skepticism to Certainty

    In this podcast, J. Warner discusses his personal journey to Christianity with Frank Sontag from KKLA 99.5 Los Angeles. Jim spent an afternoon with Frank talking about atheism, Christian theism and the journey from one to the other. Jim also talked about the nature of the Church in America and the need for Christian Case Making.

    • 56 min
    A Strategy for Overcoming Apathy and Creating Passion in Our Church Culture

    A Strategy for Overcoming Apathy and Creating Passion in Our Church Culture

    In this podcast, J. Warner discusses a model to help overcome apathy in the Church and turn teaching into training. Jim outlines the five step model he and Brett Kunkle have employed as youth leaders and demonstrates how this model can be used in other areas within the Church to decrease apathy and increase a passionate interest in Christian Case Making.

    • 46 min
    The Problem of Moral Grounding and the Nature of Forgiveness

    The Problem of Moral Grounding and the Nature of Forgiveness

    In this podcast, J. Warner discusses the nature of objective, transcendent moral truth claims and the insufficiency of moral grounding from an atheistic, naturalistic perspective. Jim also discusses the nature of forgiveness and the relationship between our ability to forgive and our view of our own need for forgiveness.

    • 1 hr 2 min

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Havfunwlife ,

Abortion

I just listened to your abortion episode and appreciated you going through ways to debate an individual coming from the pro-choice side. I would love to hear your take on IVF and surrogacy. Thank you for all you do!

hill billy bib ,

Teddy bears and babies

I have a memory from when I was young.

I was in church. My mom was Sunday school teacher.

I was in a car seat I top of a round table.

There were children all around the table.

I was looking around at the kids.

My mom started reading a story book about Moses. I clearly remember the illustrations and the story.

As my mom was reading, I remember being jealous because these other kids had my mom’s attention, and I did t want to share her attention with them.

I reasoned through, however, that it wasn’t right for me to fuss because these kids needed to learn a book out Jesus as much as I did.

So I CHOSE not to fuss in order to demand my moms personal attention.

I told my mom about that memory.

She was like “What?”
Then explained that I was only about 6 months old and that she only taught Sunday school once….and that she had read a story about Moses…which she still has the book.

Nursery school is sooooooo important. And should not be a baby sitting service that church provides for the parents. Because babies can reason.

So I agree that babies have a moral understanding from the beginning.

Remember the story in the Bible of the baby that was take by the lord ? The baby was a decent of the kings house, but God took the baby because he delighted in the bay and did t want it to be destroyed by the depravity that was taking place in the Jewish leadership at that time.

My personality changed when I was pregnant with each of my children.
And when they were born, I saw how I was feeling being presented in their behaviors.

The foods I couldn’t eat were the foods they were either allergic to or that they didn’t like as they got older.

It’s quite interesting.

Consider the heart.

The heart cannot beat without the brainstem.

There are children born with ONlY a brainstem. These children show observationally that they know they exist. They express who they want, even when they are both blind and deaf.

A man in his 40s went to the dr with strange headaches. They did scans and discovered he had no brain. He had been born with only a brainstem. He lives a normal life with the exception of learning struggles in school.

If a person can know they exist with only a brainstem, then, i hypothesize, it is b wry possible that by the time the brainstem is existing in the human body, that the novel person n the womb is already aware of his/her own existence. And we therefore, do not have the right to determine that they ought not exist. (Regardless of the issue except the mothers life….which only she can decide- like a mother in a house fire would decide to run into a burning room to save her child at the risk of her own life…or be forced to walk away.)

Although I THINK life begins at conception, I just wanted to point out when a person can begin to learn, starting with the reality that they exist.

That’s all I wanted to say.

Thank you.

Kb451286 ,

Praise Jesus

This is my new favorite podcast.

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