Dealing with Doubts - Jesus, You, and Experiential Evidence, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
If someone asked you: “How do you know Jesus actually lived?” or “Can we really trust the Bible?” what would you say? In this program, guest teacher John Dickerson will address these questions. He is going to unpack the evidence for Christianity and highlight notable Christians from history who changed our world.
Main Points
Three basic evidence categories to know that Jesus' radical claims are true:- ANCIENT evidence – historical writers (Josephus, Suetonius, Tacitus, etc.)
- EXTERNAL evidence – an objective human record of Christ’s impact on humanity.
- INTERNAL evidence – this is evidence that can only be known through experience.
- In life we get carried along by different currents: Popularity, achievement, material possessions, relationships
- These currents while alluring and momentarily satisfying, are actually taking us into anxiety and we can’t get out.
- You’ll never know for sure if the ‘current’ of Jesus will carry you to fulfillment unless you get into it.
- This “current” is the only one that brings salvation to anyone who believes.
- Jeremiah 29:13
- Matthew 11:28
- The fulfillment of Jesus is found in the space between religion and relationship.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About John Dickerson
John Dickerson is a prize-winning research journalist, a seminary-trained pastor, and a frequent commentator in national news outlets such as USA Today. Dickerson is the author of Hope of Nations, Jesus Skeptic and serves as the lead pastor of Connection Pointe Christian Church in the Indianapolis metro area.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Can we know that Jesus really existed? I mean, what evidence is there to support his existence |
| 0:07.2 | and his outrageous claim that he was God? Well, today we'll begin to answer that question. You don't want to miss it. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:21.6 | We are a discipleship ministry devoted to helping Christians worldwide live out their faith for the glory of God and the benefit of all people. |
| 0:29.6 | Well, as many of you know, Chip's our regular Bible teacher. However, in this series dealing with doubts, he's asked his friend John Dickerson to co-teach and offer his unique |
| 0:39.2 | insights and perspective. For those who don't know, John is an award-winning journalist, author, and |
| 0:44.4 | lead pastor at Connection Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. His focus during this series |
| 0:50.7 | will be to examine the historical proof that affirms the truth of the Bible, |
| 0:54.8 | while also highlighting how Christianity has positively impacted our society. |
| 1:00.4 | With that, let's join John for his first message, Jesus, you, and experiential evidence. |
| 1:07.2 | I want to start up with something that I can guarantee you and I have in common, and it is this, |
| 1:13.4 | you want to be happy. |
| 1:15.1 | I want to be happy. |
| 1:16.4 | We all want to be happy. |
| 1:19.3 | And here's what I mean. |
| 1:20.2 | I don't just mean that fleeting moment when your team wins the big game. |
| 1:25.4 | You have that moment of happiness. |
| 1:27.3 | But I'm talking about something more |
| 1:29.2 | significant. I'm talking about lasting internal fulfillment. I mean that deep inner peace. |
| 1:39.5 | We all want it and we all chase it in different ways. Now, when I was a kid, I was absolutely certain |
| 1:48.0 | how to achieve fulfillment. It was a very simple path. It was very clear in my mind. It was |
| 1:53.8 | anything with four wheels. A car, a truck, a tractor. I'm a car guy to an extreme. |
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