#245 What Solving True Crime Cases Taught Detective J. Warner Wallace About Life

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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"Every murder investigation teaches two lessons: a death lesson and a life lesson.” For decades, cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace investigated the causes behind deaths and murders, chasing one lead after another as he attempted to solve the case. Several of these cases remain open, unsolved mysteries. But even those that haven't yet revealed the identity of the killer do expose the truths of human nature: what's important to us, what threatens our well-being, and what causes us to flourish. Jim joins the podcast to talk about the lessons he learned about the meaning of life after spending decades solving cold case homicides. ------------------------------------------------------------------This video is sponsored by:IMPACT 360Impact 360 prepares the next generation of leaders who follow Jesus through residential, community-centered experiences for 15 to 25-year-olds. They do this through one- and two-week summer camps for high school students and the Fellows program, a nine-month gap year program for 18-20-year-olds who want to live out their faith boldly. And a 2-year Graduate level Residency, for recent college graduates who earn their Masters in Leadership while working at Impact 360 Institute for two years.www.impact360.org (http://www.impact360.org/)GOOD RANCHERSGood Ranchers: American Meat Delivered Use the code, ALISA to get 8 Free American Wagyu Burgers in each box for a year ($400 Value) Plus, a free bacon butter gift (a delicious burger topping)Free Express Shipping Go to www.goodranchers.com/alisa (http://www.goodranchers.com/alisa) for more information.SEVEN WEEKS COFFEETaste the Coffee that is Saving Lives.Use the code, ALISA, to get 10% off any product.www.sevenweekscoffee.com (http://www.sevenweekscoffee.com/)--------------------------------------------------------------------To Purchase the new CD, “Beauty from the Ash”, go to www.alisachilders.com/music (http://www.alisachilders.com/music)There you can get the CD, backing tracks, string charts, rhythm charts and stems.Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alisachilders (http://www.patreon.com/alisachilders)To order “Another Gospel”: www.alisachilders.com/another-gospel/ (http://www.alisachilders.com/another-gospel/)To order “Live Your Truth": www.alisachilders.com/live-your-truth-and-other-lies/ (http://www.alisachilders.com/live-your-truth-and-other-lies/)To order “The Deconstruction of Christianity”: https://alisachilders.com/the-deconstruction-of-christianity/ (https://alisachilders.com/the-deconstruction-of-christianity/)For Alisa's Merch: https://alisachilders.creator-spring.com (https://alisachilders.creator-spring.com/)To see what gear Alisa uses to record her podcast, go to:https://kit.co/alisachilders (https://kit.co/alisachilders)Potential Sponsors: https://alisachilders.com/sponsor-request-form/ (https://alisachilders.com/sponsor-request-form/)Product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something we'll receive a small commission.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Elisa Childers Podcast, where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic
0:14.0	Christianity discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity,
0:18.0	kindness, and truth. And I've just gotten off a call with my friend Jay Warner Wallace who's written so many amazing books.
0:25.3	You probably know him as the Cold Case Homicide Detective who was an atheist and then
0:29.8	put the claims of Christianity through the same test that he put his cold cases through and ended up becoming a Christian.
0:35.2	Of course he wrote about that in his book, Cold Case Christianity.
0:38.4	We've talked about that book a couple times on the podcast.
0:41.2	He's got lots of other good books. He is really one of the reasons. on the Academy many years ago. He was my first instructor and he and Frank Turic really
0:54.4	encouraged me to to do this kind of ministry in a public setting. So I'm
0:59.0	always so overjoyed to have Jim on the podcast and we had such a great
1:02.4	conversation because we're really talking about his new book. overjoyed to have Jim on the podcast and we had such a great conversation
1:03.0	because we're really talking about his new book, The Truth and True Crime, which is so
1:08.0	filled with wisdom. I said this on the air with him but it's really true that in my world of apologetics, whenever anybody has a question about maybe a decision that needs to be made in ministry or even in life in our personal lives, Jim is like the first call we all make and I've even had
1:25.0	conversations with other apologists where I'll be asking about something and they'll
1:28.8	say well have you asked Jim what he thinks yet and that's because always, all of us really respect Jim as somebody who has just such
1:37.3	great wisdom to offer. And I think maybe that's because, first of all, he is just a wise person, but also because of his many years working in law enforcement and solving cold cases.
1:48.0	There's just an element where he just has so much to offer because he's seen the worst of humanity and he's
1:54.7	seen probably more of the worst of humanity than the best but he's just a really
1:59.2	wise person and so I think that this book the truth and true crime of all, it kind of scratches that true crime itch that's so popular right now.
2:05.8	Everybody's listening to True Crime Podcasts.
2:08.5	And so he tells lots of stories of true crime, cases that he's worked.
2:15.8	But it's also a little bit, I would say in a self-help, but I don't mean that in a secular way,
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