The Stand to Reason "Please Convince Me" Apologetics Podcast
The Stand to Reason “Please Convince Me” Podcast is hosted by J. Warner Wallace, cold-case detective and author of Cold-Case Christianity (A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels). We examine the case for the Christian Worldview from an evidential perspective and do our best to tell it like it is. With the rules of evidence clearly in mind, we examine the case for the existence of God, the reality of dualism, the reliability of the Biblical text, and the deity of Jesus. Along the way we also take a critical look at the nature of the Christian Church in America today. Why are so many young people leaving the church? Why are so many older Christians apathetic and unengaged? Why do so few Christians understand what they believe, and why do even fewer understand WHY they believe it? Join us each week as we sort through the evidence for the Christian Worldview and examine the life of the Church. Please visit our websites at www.STR.org and www.ColdCaseChristianity.com.

In this post Christmas podcast, Jim answers listener email and addresses the role between faith and works? What's the danger in adding good works to the salvation equation? In addition, Jim further addresses the role that Christianity has played in shaping our culture, the existence of textual variations in the scriptures and the worldview contained within the movie "Avatar".

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In this podcast, Jim examines the role that fulfilled prophecy plays in confirming the reliability of the New Testament. In addition to the accurate prophecies uttered by Jesus himself, there are hundreds of Old Testament prophecies that were fulfilled by the birth, life, death and burial of Jesus, the Messiah. Jim also discusses the theistic beliefs of America's founding fathers in response to listener email.


In this podcast, Jim examines the impact that Christian believers have had on our world and the impact that theistic faith has on culture. While many "new atheists" argue that belief in God is "not good" for our society, the truth is just the opposite. Believers have contributed to our culture in ways that are often taken for granted and our country was founded in Christian principles held by theistic believers. Jim describes four central Christian beliefs that have helped to shape our society in a positive way as we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior.


In this podcast, Jim continues examining the reliability of the Bible by studying the manner in which the New Testament was collected and canonized. Can we trust that the New Testament we have today is the same New Testament that first century believers had? How was the New Testament collected? What was the standard used to decide if a text should be included in the canon? Doe the New Testament contain errors of transmission? Do these errors compromise the text? Jim also talks about the difference between dialogue and debate and discusses the recent headlines related to Tiger Woods.