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Lee Strobel
Lee Strobel (Lee Patrick Strobel) is a former American investigative journalist and a Christian Author who has written several books, including four which received ECPA (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association) Christian Book Awards (1994, 1999, 2001, 2005) and a series which addresses challenges to the veracity of Christianity. He is a former host of the television program called Faith Under Fire on PAX TV and he runs a video apologetic web site.
Lee Strobel Age
He was born on January 25, 1952 in Arlington Heights, Illinois, U.S.
Lee Strobel Family | Chicago Tribune
Less information has been revealed about his father, mother and siblings if he has any. He attended the University of Missouri where he received a Journalism degree. He later earned his Masters of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School. He became a journalist for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers for 14 years. The UPI Illinois Editors Association newspaper award program gave him a first place for public service (the Len H. Small Memorial award) for his coverage of the Pinto crash trial of Ford Motor in Winamac, Indiana in 1980. Later, he became the assistant managing editor of the Daily Herald, before leaving journalism in 1987.
Lee Strobel Wife | Daughter
He married Leslie Strobel and they are blessed with two children; a son called Kyle who is an an Assistant Professor of Spiritual Theology and Formation at the Talbot School of Theology and a daughter called Alison who is a novelist.
Lee Strobel Church
He was an atheist when he began investigating the Biblical claims about Christ after his wifeās conversion. Prompted by the results of his investigation, he became a Christian on November 8, 1981. He was a teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, from 1987 to 2000, before shifting his focus to writing and producing his TV show, Faith Under Fire. He later was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Southern Evangelical Seminary in recognition of his contributions to Christian apologetics in 2007.
Lee Strobel Books
He has written several books just to list a few.
1998 ā The Case for Christ: A Journalistās Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
2000 ā The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
2004 ā The Case for a Creator
2005 ā The Case for Christmas: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger
2007 ā The Case for the Real Jesus
2013 ā The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
2014 ā The Case for Christianity Answer Book
2015 ā The Case for Hope: Looking Ahead with Courage and Confidence
2018 ā The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural
Lee Strobel Net Worth
From his work as a former investigative journalist and from his work as a Christian apologetic author, he has gained a great fortune. Besides that, he lives with his wife in his home that he bought. He has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Lee Strobel Movie
His movies include;
2004 ā Jesus: Fact or Fiction.
2007 ā Jesus: The Great Debate.
2017 ā The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel The Case For Christ
The Case For Christ is one of the books that Lee has written. This book summarizes Leeās interviews with thirteen evangelical Christian scholarsāCraig Blomberg, Bruce Metzger, Edwin Yamauchi, John McRay, Gregory Boyd, Ben Witherington III, Gary Collins, D. A. Carson, Louis Lapides, Alexander Metherell, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, and J. P. Morelandāin which they defend their views regarding the historical reliability of the New Testament. His personal encounters with these scholars and their beliefs led to the 2017 film of the same name.
Lee Strobel The Case For Miracles
The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural is one of the books that he has written. This book starts with an unlikely interview in which Americaās foremost skeptic builds a seemingly persuasive case against the miraculous. But then Strobel travels the country to quiz scholars to see whether they can offer solid answers to atheist objections. Along the way, he encounters astounding accounts of healings and other phenomena that simply cannot be explained away by naturalistic causes. The book features the results of exclusive new scientific polling that shows miracle accounts are much more common than people think.
Lee Strobel Testimony
This is a summary of the detailed transcript of his testimony;
For most of my life I was an atheist. I thought the idea of an all-loving, all-powerful creator of the universeāI thought it was stupid. I mean, my background is in journalism and law. I tend to be a skeptical person. I was the legal editor of the Chicago Tribune. So I needed evidence before Iād believe anything.
One day my wife came up to meāsheād been agnosticāand she said after a period of spiritual investigation she had decided to become a follower of Jesus Christ. And I thought, you know, this is the worst possible news I could get. I thought she was going to turn into some sexually repressed prude who was going to spend all her time serving the poor in skid row somewhere. I thought this was the end of our marriage.
But in the ensuing months, I saw positive changes in her values, in her character, in the way she related to me and the children. It was winsome; and it was attractive; and it made me want to check things out. So I went to church one day, ah, mainly to see if I could get her out of this cult that she had gotten involved in.
But I heard the message of Jesus articulated for the first time in a way that I could understand it. That forgiveness is a free gift, and that Jesus Christ died for our sins, that we might spend eternity with Him. And I walked out sayingāI was still an atheistābut also saying, āIf this is true, this has huge implications for my life.ā And so I used my journalism training and legal training to begin an investigation into whether there was any credibility to Christianity or to any other world faith system for that matter.
Lee Strobel The Case For Easter
The Case for Easter: A Journalist Investigates the Evidence for the Resurrection is one of his books that answers the following questions. Did Jesus of Nazareth really rise from the dead?Of the many world religions, only one claims that its founder returned from the grave. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the very cornerstone of Christianity. But a dead man coming back to life? In our sophisticated age, when myth has given way to science, who can take such a claim seriously? Some argue that Jesus never died on the cross. Conflicting accounts make the empty tomb seem suspect. And post-crucifixion sightings of Jesus have been explained in psychological terms.How credible is the evidence forāand againstāthe resurrection? and many others.
Lee Strobel Quotes
āOnly in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.ā
āIf your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. Heās terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.ā
āFaith is only as good as the one in whom itās invested.ā
āTo be honest, I didnāt want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someoneās character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.ā
āAbruptly, Templeton cut short his thoughts. There was a brief pause, almost as if he was uncertain whether he should continue.
āUh ⦠but ⦠no,ā he said slowly, āheās the most ā¦ā He stopped, then started again. āIn my view,ā he declared, āhe is the most important human being who ever existed.ā
Thatās when Templeton uttered the words I neer expected to hear from him. ā And if I may put it this way,ā he said in a voice that began to crack, āI ⦠miss ⦠him!ā
With that tears flooded his eyes. He turned his head and looked downward, raising his left hand to shield his face from me. His shoulders bobbed as he wept.ā
Lee Strobel Website
His website is leestrobel.com
The Ordinary People God Chose - Learning to Love the Local Church
Iām not athletic. Iām not competitive. I donāt like to sweat. I have trouble remembering the rules of games. The only organized sport on my lifeās rĆ©sumĆ© is two years of collegiate synchronized swimming ā a singular exception that only proves the rule. But for someone who doesnāt like sporting events, I end up watching a lot of them. Iāve shivered on wooden bleachers during snowy college football games. Iāve sunburned in the outfield at minor (and major) league baseball games. Iāve covered my ears during deafening basketball games. Iāve flinched and winced at ice hockey games. Iāve arrived early for batting practice, and Iāve stayed late for the fireworks. And I donāt just watch. I wear the team colors. I sing the team song. I bite my fingernails in the bottom of the ninth. When we win, I rejoice. When we lose, Iām genuinely disappointed. My surprising conduct has an explanation: I love people who love sports. The people in my family delight in goals and strikes and penalty shots, and so, over time, Iāve learned to take pleasure in those things too. What they love, I want to love. At times, the local church can seem to us like a sporting event to a non-athlete, or a baking show to a microwave cook, or a book club to someone who doesnāt like to read. It can seem like a big fuss over something insignificant and lots of work with unimpressive results. Week after week, the unremarkable people of our local congregations gather to do the same things in the same way, followed by stale coffee served at plastic tables in a damp basement. We may wonder, Why bother? The answer requires us to look beyond our own experiences and inclinations ā it requires us to look to God himself. Having been redeemed by the blood of Christ and changed by the work of the Spirit, we love God. What God loves, we therefore want to love. And God loves the church. Our First Love We didnāt always love God, of course. To begin with, we hated him. The Bible describes us as enemies (Romans 5:10), strangers (Ephesians 2:12), rebels (Ezekiel 20:38), and haters (Romans 1:30); impure (Ephesians 5:5), disobedient (Ephesians 2:2), hopeless (Ephesians 2:12), and ignorant (Romans 10:3). Our sins justly placed us under his wrath and displeasure (Ephesians 2:3). We rejected God, despised his authority, and ignored his good law. We were neither lovely nor loving. But he loved us. In the counsels of eternity, he set his love on us, and in time, he sent his beloved Son to die for us so that we might enter into a loving relationship with him. He brought us out of slavery into the joyful circle of his family and made us his privileged children. Because he loved us, we now love him. Our love for God is comprehensive: involving heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30). It controls us (2 Corinthians 5:14), and it compels us (John 14:15). Our days and hours and minutes are taken up with this love. Like the psalmist, we look around us and proclaim that there is nothing in all the earth we desire apart from God (Psalm 73:25). He is our first love, and he is our great love. Godās Great Love Itās appropriate, then, that we would ask ourselves, What does God love? For anyone who has ever sat in the creaking pews ā or folding chairs ā of a local congregation on Sunday morning, the answer might be surprising: God loves the church. Listen to what Paul tells the Ephesians: Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:25ā27) The glorious purpose of Godās eternal plan of redemption is the gathering and perfecting of his people. Jesus came for the sake of the church. More than thirty times in the New Testament, the church is called ābeloved.ā This is not because the ordinary and sometimes awkward people who gather on Sundays are themselves lovely, but because they are bound to someone who is. Christ is the one whom the Father āloved . . . before the foundation of the worldā (John 17:24). He is the beloved Son. And as people who were created in him, redeemed by him, united to him, and given to him, we find our identity in him. Christ is the beloved, and in him, the church is beloved too. Loving the People God Loves Of all the games I watch, the sporting events where I have the greatest investment are the ones where my own kids are playing. When Iām in the bleachers at their basketball games or beside the dugout at their baseball games, I canāt take my eyes off the action. It might be Saturday morning T-ball, but itās always the big game to me. When someone I love is on the team, Iām all in. Likewise, if the one our soul loves has committed himself to the church, it changes everything about our own commitment. āBeloved,ā writes John, āif God so loved us, we also ought to love one anotherā (1 John 4:11). This means that we will seek to make Godās great love for the church our own. We begin on Sunday by regularly showing up to worship together (Hebrews 10:24). Itās our highest privilege to gather with the people of God before the face of God. In the church, we also work to promote one anotherās holiness, to show affection for one another, to bear one anotherās needs, to encourage one anotherās gifts, and to join in the cause of the gospel together. The people of our church are often outwardly unremarkable, but in the mutual love of the local church, we affirm the love that God has for us. Thankfully, we donāt have to muster up love for the church on our own strength. Before he went to the cross to redeem his people, Christ prayed for the church. He petitioned the Father āthat the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in themā (John 17:26). Surrounded by the ordinary and yet extraordinary, sinful and yet holy, weak and yet ultimately triumphant people of God, we look for the Fatherās gracious answer to the Sonās request. And when the God who is love (1 John 4:8) dwells in us by his Spirit, we have everything we need to love the church. Article by Megan Hill