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Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

Josh McDowell

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Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Writer
Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
Conviction
Knowing
Belief
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While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
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If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
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You can laugh at Christianity you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.
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I thought Christians were walking idiots.
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Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant.
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Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
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The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
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Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves it is universal because God is above all it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.
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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
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God created us, He created us for His glory, and He created us to have a relationship with Him, and He created us to be all that He desires us to be and He's jealous of that because He does not want to share that with others.
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Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.
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One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.
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My greatest asset now is my focus.
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The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
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I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
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When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Dont go it alone - you wont make it.
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The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.
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Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
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