Discovering Your Life

Discovering the Bible

On Sunday, October 5, 2008, the Rejoice in Jesus Christ Discipling Group will host a 90-minute presentation of two segments – The Old and The New Testaments – of the DVD production by the Christian History Institute “Discovering the Bible”. It will be presented at 3:00 PM, either at the Third Floor Food Court at St. Francis Square Bldg, or in the Fourth Floor Old Worship Hall of CCF at the same building. The event is open to all who wish to discover God’s written message of His love for everyone. It is part of RJCDG’s program of fulfilling its part in Jesus’ Great Commission to all His disciples.

Among the many evangelists and apologists [legal defenders] for Jesus and the Christian faith is Lee Patrick Strobel. He is a holder of a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, and had been investigative journalist for 14 years at the Chicago Tribune. In the early 1980’s he set out to write a book to disprove the truth of the Gospels and the resurrection of Jesus in particular. He researched and thought about this for two years, mainly to disillusion his wife who is a steadfast believer and follower of Christ. By the unfathomable grace of God, the book he ended up writing was The Case for Christ, proving the authenticity of the Gospels, historically, scientifically and archaeologically, especially the resurrection of the Lord.

Other books he has written are: The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity, recipient of a 2001 Gold Medallion Book Award, The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ, and Experiencing the Passion of Jesus, co-written with Garry Poole as a discussion guide for Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ, the recipient of the 2005 ECPA Christian Book of the Year award. He also became a teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, from 1987 to 2000, and of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California from 2000 to 2002, and now writes and produces Apologetics and Evangelical TV shows. His website is http://www.leestrobel.com/.

Here is a video interview of Lee Strobel by Jerry Johnston discussing the apocryphal and pseudepigraphal Gospel of Judas which inspired the Gnostic fiction “The Da Vinci Code”.

Is the Bible Reliable as a Historical Document?

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