Lee and Leslie Strobel: “The Case for Christ” in Marriage

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🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel is the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune and best-selling author of The Case for Christ. Lee and his wife Leslie share the struggles and joys of finding faith at different times in their marriage and discuss "The Case for Christ" movie, which released to theaters in April 2017.

Understanding will never bring you Peace. That’s why I have instructed you to trust in Me, not in your understanding. Human beings have a voracious appetite for trying to figure things out, in order to gain a sense of mastery over their lives. But the world presents you with an endless series of problems. As soon as you master one set, another pops up to challenge you. The relief you had anticipated is short-lived. Soon your mind is gearing up again: searching for understanding (mastery), instead of seeking Me (your Master).

The wisest of all men, Solomon, could never think his way through to Peace. His vast understanding resulted in feelings of futility, rather than in fulfillment. Finally, he lost his way and succumbed to the will of his wives by worshiping idols.

My Peace is not an elusive goal, hidden at the center of some complicated maze. Actually, you are always enveloped in Peace, which is inherent in My Presence. As you look to Me, you gain awareness of this precious Peace.

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0:26.1	All of us here at the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast want to thank you for listening.
0:30.9	Now on to today's podcast. Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel is the former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago
0:39.5	Tribune and best-selling author of more than 20 books.
0:43.0	His classic, The Case for Christ, is a perennial favorite which details his conversion to Christianity.
0:50.0	Lee and his wife Leslie share the story of their journey to Christ and talk about the case for Christ movie which released theaters in 2017.
1:00.0	We actually met in high school. We were 14 years old 50 years ago,
1:04.4	uh, 1960s. And we were 14 years old, we never met.
1:09.2	She was with a friend of mine, this guy, and they had gone downtown Chicago by the train to return
1:15.5	some Christmas presents and I was with a friend of mine downtown, I had taken the train down
1:20.2	too and I saw my friend who was Less Lessing right outside the train station. So he introduced
1:26.4	me to Leslie and we looked at each other and it was 11 at first sight and Leslie went
1:32.0	home and told her mom I met the boy I'm going to marry and sure enough by the age of 19 for her and 20 for me we got married.
1:41.0	So we were childhood sweethearts and mostly through high school. We broke up a few times.
1:46.0	I knew if I could just get a fuzzy steering wheel and a racing stripe on my Volkswagen
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