The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

In this podcast, J. Warner Wallace reviews the evidence and case for the reliability of the Bible without using the four point template he offers in Cold-Case Christianity. Are there any good reasons to believe the Bible has been transmitted to us accurately and contains a reliable record of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner Wallace discusses the nature of case making and the difference between “possible doubts” and “reasonable doubts”. J. Warner then reviews some of the corroborative evidence validating the New Testament Gospel accounts.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines how Jesus handled doubt when it was expressed by his followers and those who observed his life and ministry? What was Jesus' response when people confessed their concerns about his claims to Deity? The answer may surprise you.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace returns to the recent Pew Research Poll data and makes an important observation about the state of belief in America. Does this data reveal a unique opportunity for those of us who want to make the case for Christianity? Is America becoming a more secular nation, or does theism still rule the day?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines the nature and existence of objective, transcendent moral truths. If such truths truly exist, how can we account for them? Is there a naturalistic explanation for moral truth or is the best explanation the existence of an objective, transcendent moral law giver?

J. Warner Wallace joins Hank Hanegraaff on the Bible Answer Man broadcast and talks about his book, God's Crime Scene: a Cold Case Detective Investigates the Evidence for a Divine Intruder. Hanks talks about the nature of the evidence in the universe and the need for Christians to equip themselves to make a defense for what they believe.

In this podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines the nature of the First-Century Church in an effort to identify essential characteristics of Christian Community. Are there any over-arching principles that God has given us to help us live as a community of God?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace begins a six part mini-series summarizing material from his latest book, God's Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Investigates the Evidence For A Divinely Created Universe. J. Warner begins by establishing the overarching investigative approach he takes to examining the evidence in the universe. Can everything “inside the room” of the universe be explained by staying “inside the room”? This simply question helps homicide detectives determine if a death scene is a crime scene. Could the same question be applied to the evidence in the universe to determine if a cosmic “intruder” is the most reasonable inference?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace describes a simple investigative strategy from his new book, God's Crime Scene, to examine the evidence in the universe. Can the evidence in the universe be explained by natural forces within the universe or is the existence of a Divine Intruder a better inference?

In this podcast, J. Warner Wallace talks with John Stonestreet from the Chuck Colson Center about J. Warner's book, God's Crime Scene. Are science and theism incompatible? Can we employ a detective's investigative template to this question, and if so, what might we find? Does science demonstrate the existence of a Divine Intruder and Cosmic Designer?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace summarizes the case for Gods existence from consciousness. How does non-material consciousness emerge in a purely material universe? Is “mind” nothing more than “brain”? For a robust review of the collective case for God's existence from eight pieces of evidence “inside the room” of the natural universe, please refer to God's Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Homicide Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace talks about his new book, God's Crime Scene, as he examines the first important piece of evidence in the universe: the origin of all space, time and matter from nothing. Does Big Bang Cosmology (the Standard Cosmological Model) point most reasonably to a Creator God?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace makes a case for the evidential nature of Christian truth claims. He then reviews the nature of objective and subjective truth claims and offers a brief test to see if you can distinguish the differences. Can you pass the test?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace talks about the nature of subjective and objective truth and the impact our understanding of truth has on our efforts to evangelize. J. Warner also describes a distinctive feature of Christianity separating it from all other theistic worldviews.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace continues a two-part program in which he describes ten reasons why we, as Christians, fail to share our faith. Are these reasons legitimate concerns or convenient excuses? J. Warner talks about the first five reasons and provides tips to overcome the obstacles that typically prevent us from sharing what we believe.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace begins a two-part program in which he describes ten reasons why we, as Christians, fail to share our faith. Are these reasons legitimate concerns or convenient excuses? J. Warner talks about the first five reasons and provides tips to overcome the obstacles that typically prevent us from sharing what we believe.

In podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines several objections to the argument for God's existence from the appearance of design in biological organisms. Even atheists such as Richard Dawkins admit biological molecular machines “appear” to be designed. Can this appearance be explained by purely natural forces?

In this podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines the evidence for design (teleology) in biological organisms. Even atheists such as Richard Dawkins admit biological molecular machines “appear” to be designed. Can this appearance be explained by purely natural forces?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner describes a strategy to address the departure of young people from the Church. The statistics related to college aged Christians is discouraging. J. Warner offers a solution as he describes how to change teaching into training. 

In this podcast, J. Warner follows up on the previous podcast and examines objections to the axiological argument for the existence of God. Can naturalists account for transcendent moral truths without grounding them in a transcendent source? Are these alternative explanations reasonable?

In this podcast, J. Warner examines the axiological argument for the existence of God. Do objective moral truths exist, and if so, how can these truths be grounded? Does God's existence best account for objective moral truth claims?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner examines the orthodox Christian doctrine of the Trinity. How is God is ONE yet THREE? Why is this doctrine philosophically sound and theologically essential?

J. Warner examines the orthodox definition of Salvation and the important work of the cross. Jim also answers listener email related to the nature of the soul.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner examines the challenge of sharing your faith online and provides five simple guidelines to help you be more effective when making a case for what you believe with social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

J. Warner examines the Gospel of Mark for signs of Peter's influence. Papias, the early church bishop, claimed Mark's Gospel was written as he sat at the feet of Peter in Rome. According to Papias, Mark scribed Peter's sermons and created the narrative we now have in our Bible. In this audio podcast, J. Warner applies Forensic Statement Analysis to Mark's text to see if Peter's fingerprints are present.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner examines alleged “contradictions” in the eyewitness New Testament accounts. Do variations between witness accounts automatically discredit their reliability? J. Warner provides two examples from the Gospel Resurrection accounts to illustrate the manner in which eyewitness accounts are typically reconciled.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner describes several important principles to consider when evaluating alleged Bible “contradictions”. J. Warner uses the example of the sign over Jesus' cross to demonstrate how these simple investigative principles can be employed to determine if Biblical passages are truly contradictory.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner discusses the manner in which we, as Christians, ought to respond to criticism. Are you adequately prepared to defend what you believe as a Christian? Have you come to expect the kind of pointed criticism we face today as believers? Do you have a strategy to help you respond to those who don't share your beliefs?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner examines the Biblical definition of “faith”. Did Jesus advocate “blind faith”? How did Jesus use evidence to demonstrate his Deity? How did Jesus deal with doubt?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner examines the history related to the eyewitness observations of Jesus. How early are the eyewitness accounts and what precisely was being said about Jesus prior to the creation of these written documents?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner reviews the evidence for the reliability of the New Testament eyewitness accounts. What are the criteria we use to determine if eyewitnesses are reliable? Do the authors of the New Testament Gospels measure up? J. Warner examines the corroboration of the Gospels and the potential bias of its authors in this episode of Cold-Case Christianity.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner reviews the evidence for the reliability of the New Testament eyewitness accounts. What are the criteria we use to determine if eyewitnesses are reliable? Do the authors of the New Testament Gospels measure up? J. Warner examines the early dating and reliable transmission of the Gospels in this episode of Cold-Case Christianity.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner talks about the importance of being able to make the case for the historicity of Jesus. In a generation ever more skeptical of the real existence of Jesus, now is the time to familiarize ourselves with the evidence so we can establish Jesus as a real and legitimate source of wisdom.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner asks an important question: If you're a Christian, why is this the case? How we answer this question is critically important given the growing hostile nature of our culture related to classical Christianity. J. Warner reviews some of the answers he's been given as he travels the country, and offers an evidential response of his own.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner examines the nature of religious experience. Can experiences such as these serve as an evidence for the existence of God? Can we trust our experiences? Is there some way to test test such experiences to make sure they are from God?

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner talks about the importance of presuppositions when considering a truth claim. Using analogies from cold-case trials, J. Warner compares the lives of two well-known Biblical scholars as he describes the power of presuppositional bias.

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner makes the case for why all of us, as Christians, need to take the additional step and become Christian Case Makers. What does it mean to be an “apologist”? Why should it matter to us? How can we avoid being an “Accidental Christian”?

In this Cold-Case Christianity video broadcast / podcast, J. Warner reviews the statistics related to young people leaving the church and then offers four simple ways parents can help make sure their kids stay in the Christian faith. Jim also discusses the simple math behind the problem and illustrates the challenges facing young Christians.

J. Warner makes a case for the eyewitness status of the New Testament Gospel accounts. Is it appropriate to evaluate these accounts as eyewitness statements? Were they intended to be read in this manner? Jim provides several reasons to accept the accounts as eyewitness testimony.

J. Warner makes a case for the reasonable nature of the Christian Worldview. Does Christianity require blind faith? Are we to accept the claims of Christianity without evidence or even in spite of the evidence? Or are we called, as Christians, to place our trust in Jesus because of the evidence? Jim also examines the way Jesus responded to those who had doubts.

J. Warner examines the statements of Jesus to see if He ever claimed to be God. While skeptics may acknowledge Jesus' existence and even the value of His teaching, any assessment of Jesus' instruction must account for his obvious claims of Deity. Jim looks at the cumulative case and assembles the evidence from the Gospels to demonstrate Jesus' claims to Deity.

J. Warner describes 6 simple principles (all beginning with the letter “D”) to help you study the Bible like a detective. J. Warner then recommends a few tools to guide you in your study and finally incorporates the tips and tools into a four part strategy for Bible investigation and Christian Case Making.

J. Warner provides four observations from his youth ministry trips to UC Berkeley. These simple observations may help you improve the quality of your discussions with non-believers and help you better understand the underlying issues in some of these conversations. J. Warner also answers viewer email related to the disagreements between Christian denominations and the need for personal research.

What does Christianity teach about salvation? J. Warner illustrates a number of competing notions related to salvation. Jim asks six questions as he steps toward the orthodox Christian view and illustrates each concept on a whiteboard. Finally, J. Warner plays his visualization of the gospel, The Best Story, to conclude the broadcast.

J. Warner talks about the challenge we face, as Christian Case Makers, when trying to respond to the problem of evil. If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why is there so much evil in the world? Jim talks about the need for a cumulative response and explains why the problem of evil may be a bigger problem for atheists than for Christians.

J. Warner examines four popular misconceptions and misstatements about the nature of objective truth, tolerance and our over-reliance on science. If there are no objective truths (or they can't be known) there is little reason to examine the truth about God. We need to get to the truth about truth before we can ever know the truth about anything else.

In this Cold-Case Christianity podcast, J. Warner re-examines an atheist objection related to the historicity of Jesus. Is Jesus merely a copycat of prior mythologies like Mithras, Osiris or Horus? How can we, as Christians, respond to such claims? Jim provides a five point response to this common atheist claim.

In this podcast, J. Warner talks about the role of evidence in making the case for Christianity and the need for an evidential approach to Christian Case Making. Jim also responds to an excellent blog post addressing his evidential approach to apologetics. Is evidentialism a valid apologetic? What is its relationship to presuppositionalism? Can Mormons claim a valid presuppositional approach to their worldview? Jim also talks about the validity of advanced degrees in apologetics.

In this podcast, J. Warner responds to a listener who wants to know how to become a public apologist. What strategies are effective? What goals are reasonable? Jim provides his most comprehensive podcast on this subject, tracing his own journey and providing tips to help yours.

In this podcast, J. Warner examines five responses typically offered to the question: “Why are you a Christian?” Are these responses sufficient, given the nature of the culture in which we live? How can we better respond to the challenges we face as we try to defend what we believe about Christianity?

In this podcast, J. Warner converses with Frank Sontag and Janet Mefferd about the nature of heaven and the soul. Have popular movies and books distorted the truth about Heaven? What really happens to the soul when we die? Why should we believe in the soul in the first place?