Fact Check: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
If you know someone who questions the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it may be that they don’t have all the facts. In this fascinating message, former atheist Lee Strobel shares his story of coming to faith after years of study, and then examines extra-biblical evidence that proves three key points: Jesus was truly dead on the cross, the tomb was really empty, and hundreds of people interacted with Jesus after Resurrection Sunday!
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| 0:30.6 | Now, because I had no belief in God, |
| 0:32.8 | I really lacked a moral framework for my life. |
| 0:37.2 | So I lived a very immoral and drunken and profane and narcissistic, self-absorbed, |
| 0:47.1 | really in a lot of ways, self-destructive kind of life. |
| 0:49.6 | That was my life. |
| 0:52.5 | As we commemorate Good Friday today, Lee Strobel explains how he went from being an |
| 0:58.0 | unhappy atheist to becoming an ardent believer in Jesus Christ when he examined the evidence of the |
| 1:05.4 | resurrection, historical evidence that might surprise you. Welcome to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:12.7 | As many of you know, Lee Strobel was an award-winning investigative journalist when his wife Leslie |
| 1:18.5 | became a Christian, and he applied his skills as a journalist to try to disprove her newfound |
| 1:25.4 | Christianity. But ultimately, Lee had to admit that the evidence of Jesus Christ's |
| 1:30.6 | birth, death, and resurrection couldn't be denied, and he'll detail some of those facts today. |
| 1:37.2 | Lee's the author of over 40 books, including the best-selling Case for Christ series. |
| 1:42.0 | Let me just say, Lee is a good friend of mine. |
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