You're Not Who You Think You Are: Exposing the Lies That Steal Your True Identity in Christ
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This episode explores why your identity is the most important thing about you and how Scripture calls followers of Jesus to root who they are in Christ rather than in changing roles, emotions, or cultural labels. Drawing from social research, biblical theology, and real-life examples from law enforcement, ministry, and family, J. Warner Wallace exposes the lies that say you are what you do, what you desire, or what others say about you—and contrasts them with the unshakable identity offered "from above" in the gospel.
You'll hear about the three main ways people form identity (outside-in, inside-out, and top-down), how trauma and life transitions reveal what you've really been trusting, and why only an identity in Christ can provide lasting stability and peace. By walking through key passages like John 3, Ezekiel 36, 2 Corinthians 5, and Galatians 2, this conversation will help you diagnose where your identity actually rests today and how to relocate it to the only foundation that will never shift.
To go deeper on this subject, check out J. Warner's book The Truth in True Crime here: https://coldcasechristianity.com/the-truth-in-true-crime. If this episode is helpful, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast in your app, and be sure to follow/subscribe so you never miss a future episode. Your engagement helps more people discover this content and begin thinking carefully about their true identity in Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity podcast, where a veteran cold case homicide detective investigates the truth of the Christian worldview. |
| 0:08.5 | Jay Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured detective, Christian apologist, and bestselling author. |
| 0:13.6 | This weekly show applies real investigative tools to the claims of Christianity. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome back to the Cold Case Christianity podcast. I'm Jay Warner-Wallis. Boy, |
| 0:23.0 | what a joy it is to say that again. We've had several seasons of recording this podcast. If you're |
| 0:28.2 | somebody who's been listening to us for all 15 years, you know what I'm talking about. We started off |
| 0:33.5 | just doing a podcast for my youth group that grew into an NRB TV show, which we did, which |
| 0:39.8 | we recorded video. And now, finally, we are in a new season, the season of the old age |
| 0:45.6 | version of our podcast. And, you know, we did this for a long time, and I saw that on our website, |
| 0:52.7 | we had a couple hundred broken links. The old server |
| 0:57.8 | was no longer with us, so I had really lost those podcasts into the ether. So I went back |
| 1:04.4 | because they're evergreen. They're podcasts on apologetics. And so because they were evergreen, |
| 1:08.9 | I went back and I relinked all those things |
| 1:11.4 | and re-released all of those one a week. And now that we are done with doing that so all of our |
| 1:15.8 | stuff's online and we can start fresh. And we're going to be doing just an audio podcast. |
| 1:20.8 | So if you're joining us this week for this podcast, we are starting a new kind of 21st century version here of our podcast, which we'll be |
| 1:30.7 | doing weekly, and it'll only be on audio. Now, as you know, if you've probably followed our |
| 1:35.4 | service, our ministry life here at colcasechristianity.com. We are not, we're not a nonprofit. We are |
| 1:43.5 | also, we don't accept advertising. We don't put advertising on anything we do. |
| 1:47.9 | There is advertising on our YouTube page, but we don't even get the monetization from that. |
| 1:52.1 | The whole point here is that this is something that we feel called to joyfully talk about Jesus. |
| 1:58.2 | Because when I remember when I first got saved at 35, I felt like, wow, |
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