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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

How to Investigate the Case for Christianity

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

J. Warner Wallace joins Pastor David Fleming of Champion Forest Baptist Church and trial attorney Mark Lanier (author of Christianity on Trial) to discuss the evidential case for Christianity and the importance of Christian Case Making.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How many of you have seen God is not dead one or two?

0:14.7

Let me see your hands.

0:15.9

Wow.

0:16.5

Way to go.

0:17.6

Now, you saw a guy, I believe, who testified in God is not dead two. His name is

0:22.3

Jay Warner Wallace, and he was on the witness stand in number two. And guess what? He's here

0:29.5

with us today. Watch the video. How do they miss this? A Huntington Beach man is behind bars tonight, accused of a murder more than 30 years ago.

0:42.0

We're looking for the thing that's really hiding in plain sight.

0:44.4

Which are these things in this crime scene doesn't fit this scene?

0:46.7

For me, this is a calling.

0:48.2

Yeah, I'm clearly an evidentially.

0:50.7

That's just my perspective as a skeptic.

0:52.9

That was what I valued, making cases, making criminal cases. So it shouldn't surprise anybody that when I began to examine Christianity, that's the approach I picked. I think what we're seeing in the church is that the greater and greater need for casemaking. A man is arrested outside his home accused of having a role in the 1981 disappearance of his wife.

1:13.6

Carol vanished 30 years ago, leaving behind her two children, Mikey and Brandy.

1:18.6

The family would have been more than happy to believe that Carol is still out there somewhere.

1:22.6

If Carol was dead, if Mike killed her, taking the accusation to court would be risky, but prosecutor Lewin decided to roll the dice.

1:32.2

On April 13, 2011, Mike was arrested for Carol's murder.

1:37.6

I've learned enough, I think, to be able to help the church do what it needs to do, to understand how evidence is processed, to understand how we put the case together,

1:44.8

to understand how powerful the circumstantial case is, but also what we believe about the foundational

1:50.7

views we have as Christians in a culture that is becoming more and more non-Christian. Now is the time.

1:56.8

This is the time when we need to get serious about how to present it to a culture which is challenging what we believe more and more every day.

2:07.4

Did you help me welcome Jim Wallace, Cold Case Detective?

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