Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today we speak with Father's Son, writers and

teachers Josh and Sean McDow. As a young man Josh McDow considered himself an agnostic.

Because of a troubled and hurtful home life, he truly believed that Christianity was worthless.

However, when challenged to intellectually examine the claims of Christianity, Josh discovered evidence for the reliability of the Christian faith.

Dr. Sean McDowell, his son, is a gifted communicator with a passion for equipping the church, especially young people,

to make the case for the Christian faith. They each share about their early years

and what motivates them to bring evidence to a world that is hungry for the knowledge of Christ.

I'm Josh D. McDowell.

I'm an author and speaker.

I'm with Campus Crusade for Christ.

I'm a husband, a father, a child of the king, and I absolutely love what I do.

I'm Sean McDowell.

I'm a professor at Biola University at Talbot School Theology in in the apologetics department.

I also teach high school part-time at a private school for a freshman all the way through seniors.

And I get to speak and write a little bit and have been married to my high

school sweetheart 17 years and we have three great kids.

I grew up in Union City, Michigan and by the time I went to the university I was very bitter, hurt, mad. My father was the town alcoholic growing up.

And when you're from a small town everybody knows it and it seemed like

realistically when he wasn't trying to kill my mother I was trying to kill him

my one sister killed herself my other brother sued my parents for everything they had.

Another sister ran off to the army and never came back and I was left as the baby to deal with it all.

I carry a lot of baggage with me to this day, but coming to know Christ the Savior was a big step forward in it.

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