Passionate about reaching people for Christ, Garry and his team have trained thousands of leaders to launch seeker small groups in their own settings. Website: As Willow Creek Community Church's key evangelism leader for over sixteen years, Garry Poole is the innovator of seeker small groups and a strategist of creative outreach initiatives. Their daughter, Alison, and son, Kyle, are also authors. Lee and his wife, Leslie, have been married for more than fifty years and live in Texas. A former atheist, he served as a teaching pastor at three of Americas largest churches. Lee also taught First Amendment Law at Roosevelt University.

He was a journalist for fourteen years at the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois top honors for investigative reporting (which he shared with a team he led) and public service journalism from United Press International. Lee earned a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to study at Yale Law School, where he received a Master of Studies in Law degree. Lee Strobel, former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Through compelling personal stories and expert testimony-combined with discussion and personal reflection cues facilitated by contributor Garry Poole-Christians and spiritual seekers will learn how to overcome these obstacles, deepen their spiritual convictions, and find new confidence that Christianity is a reasonable faith.ĭesigned for use with The Case for Faith Revised Video Study 9780310698814 (sold separately). The exclusivity of the Christian gospel.īehind each of these considerations is the question: Can I doubt and still be a Christian?.The troubling presence of evil and suffering in the world.The natural inclination to wrestle with faith and doubt.In this six-session video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), Strobel explores the most common emotional obstacles to faith in Christ, including: But he believes that faith and reason go hand in hand, and that Christianity is, in rational terms, a defensible religion.

Does believing in Christ mean refusing to ask hard questions in the midst of doubt?ĭoubt is familiar territory for Lee Strobel, the former atheist and award-winning author of books for skeptics and Christians alike.

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