Cold Case Christianity

Most of us say our identity is “in Christ,” but our real god is often our spouse, our job, our kids, our ministry, or even our pain. In this candid conversation, J. Warner Wallace shares how, even as a Christian and apologist, he discovered that his deepest devotion had quietly shifted from Jesus to his marriage—and why ANY time we build our identity on good but “shiftable” t...

If you hang around people who claim to be Christians long enough, you’ll hear competing claims about who Jesus really is. Some will say, “Of course He’s God.” Others will insist He’s a created agent of God, an exalted being through whom God works, but not God Himself. I’ve had plenty of people tell me, “I’m a Christian,

Is prayer merely something we do before meals, in emergencies, or when other people are watching? In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace investigates the biblical evidence for prayer—from Israel’s worship and lament, to Daniel’s daily discipline, to Jesus’s powerful teaching in Matthew 6. Here is the audio podcast (the Cold-Case Chri...

This video explores how a cold-case detective reads the Gospels the same way he reads suspect and witness statements—and why that process left him “stuck with Jesus.” Drawing on years in law enforcement, J. Warner Wallace explains how forensic statement analysis helps test whether accounts are truthful, and how Luke’s careful interviews with eyewitnesses function like a detec...

Imagine you’re an alien flying in from the other side of the galaxy. As you approach earth, your adjutant says, “There’s a large group down there called Christians. They have a book. Do you want to know what they believe?” You agree, and you’re handed a New Testament. You read the Gospels. You work through the book of Acts.