Book Review: God's Crime Scene by J. Warner Wallace

God's Crime Scene (Book, Promo Video) is the highly anticipated "sequel" to J. Warner Wallace's Cold Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels. In his first investigation Wallace looks at the evidence for the claim that the Gospels were eye-witness accounts of the life of Jesus. In his latest book, he investigates the existence of God. He takes his experience and skill-set as a homicide detective to bring together the evidences and present them in a coherent and convincing manner for the jurors (readers) to decide. God's Crime Scene is 204 pages divided into eight chapters. He has also included nearly 80 additional pages of case files for digging deeper into the cases he investigates in the book. This review will provide a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book but it cannot be substituted for reading the full text. I've included short interviews with J. Warner Wallace and Bobby Conway from The One Minute Apologist at the end of chapter summaries so you can hear a synopsis of the chapter directly from the author.

Weekly Apologetics Bonus Links (10/16 - 10/23)

Here are this week's recommended apologetics links. Enjoy.

KINDLE DEALS:
• Finding the Real Jesus: A Guide for Curious Christians and Skeptical Seekers by Lee Strobel - 1.99
• Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World - 0.99

WEEKLY LINKS:
• Apologetics Events at Biola
• Is Intelligent Design "Apologetics"?
• Sean McDowell on Why God Allows Evil
• Jonathan McLatchie on irreducible complexity
• Twelve Points That Show Christianity Is True
• Notecard Answers for Why I Believe the Bible
• Mark Mittelberg - My Reason for Faith (Video)
• Common Objection #26- "Science Can Account for Everything!"
• What is the Earliest Complete List of the Canon of the New Testament?
• Debate: Michael Licona vs. Shabir Ally- Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
• Win an Autographed Copy of J. Warner Wallace's "Cold Case Christianity"
• Book review of R.C. Sproul’s “If there’s a God, why are there atheists?”
• Why Cosmic Background Radiation Demonstrates the Universe Had a Beginning
• What criteria do historians use to get to the minimal facts about the historical Jesus?

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Book Review: Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change your Life by Eric Metaxas

“History,” writes Eric Metaxas in the introduction to his book entitled Miracles, “comprises subjective accounts of human beings, and from those subjective accounts we arrive at an ‘objective’ truth” (xii).  He asserts that we need to ask ourselves whether those subjective accounts are reliable by sifting through the information and considering the witnesses as one would do in a court of law.

This, he says, is what we must do when we hear accounts of miracles.  We must “examine (them) with the greatest rigor possible” to determine whether something is truly a miracle.  Otherwise, we could deserve the label of “gullible” that those who reject the very idea of supernatural events sometimes use to describe us.

Weekly Apologetics Bonus Links (10/02 - 10/09)

Here are this week's recommended apologetics links. Enjoy.

KINDLE DEALS:
• Finding the Real Jesus: A Guide for Curious Christians and Skeptical Seekers by Lee Strobel - 1.99
• Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World - 0.99
• Apologetics Study Bible for Students by Sean McDowell - 4.20

WEEKLY LINKS:
• Is Morality Objective?
• How Does One Develop the Mind?
• My Goal in Every Conversation with Mormons
• Tons of Great Biblical Training Classes Free
• Doug Wilson: A Christian Response to Atheism
• Video: The Abortion Debate- Scott Klusendorf vs James Croft
• Why the Information in Our DNA Points to the Existence of God
• Debate Video: David Wood vs. Shabir Ally- "Is Jesus the Son of God?"
• Michael Strauss lectures on scientific evidence for a Creator at UT Dallas
• Video: Daniel- Standing Strong for God in a Secular Society by Dr. John Lennox
• Debate Video: William Lane Craig vs. Marcus Borg- "Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?"
• Five Investigative Principles That Will Help You Be A Better Christian Case Maker
• Four ways that the progress of experimental science conflicts with atheism
• Why the Beginning of the Universe Cannot Be Explained from “Inside the Room” (FREE Bible Insert)

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