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Josh McDowell

Josh McDowell Books

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Josh McDowell, born on August 17, 1939, is a renowned writer whose works primarily focus on Christian faith and moral ethics, enjoying great popularity among readers.

Evidence for the Resurrection: What It...

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More Than a Carpenter

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Resolving Conflict

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The Best of Josh McDowell: A Ready Defense

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Belief Matters Leader's Guide

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Discipling the Young Person

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Don't Check Your Brains at the Door

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Evidence That Demands a Verdict

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His Image...My Image

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Truth Slayers

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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.”

Men Jesus Moral Prophet Good Moral

Book:More Than a Carpenter

Source: More Than a Carpenter

“If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.”

Ifs Trying Believe America Generations Don't Believe Capability Greatest Generation

Author:Josh McDowell

“A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"”

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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.”

People Needs Body Jesus Christ Church Healing Cutting Source Salvation Plus Body Of Christ

Author:Josh McDowell

“My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for Gods power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.”

Problem Life Is Joy Deals Concerned I Have Learned His Love Insignificant

Author:Josh McDowell

“We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to the church and the gospel of Jesus Christ, a culture in which those who proclaim the gospel will be labeled as bigots and fanatics, a culture in which persecution of Christians will be not only allowed but applauded.”

Wells May Christian Culture Jesus Christ Church Religious Jesus Christ Wake Up Persecution Hostile Fanatics Bigots

Author:Josh McDowell

“Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.”

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“We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“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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Author:Josh McDowell

“Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.”

Giving Waiting Lust

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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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Author:Josh McDowell

“My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.”

Mind Heart Together Individual Christ Lord My Heart Intellectual Harmony Suicide Commit Savior Heart And Mind

Book:More Than a Carpenter

Source: More Than a Carpenter

“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.”

Believe Christian Values Christ Trusted Christian Faith

Author:Josh McDowell

“This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“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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Book:Truth Slayers

Source: Truth Slayers

“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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Book:The Best of Josh McDowell: A Ready Defense

Source: The Best of Josh McDowell: A Ready Defense

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

Believe Belief Knowing Conviction

Author:Josh McDowell

“Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.”

Parent Acting Hero

Author:Josh McDowell

“Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.”

Way Said Jesus Direct Being True Contradiction Logical Illogical

Author:Josh McDowell

“Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. And so they cannot discern between the truth and falsehood.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“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.”

Want Doe Desire Share Glory Jealous

Author:Josh McDowell

“After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.”

Ifs Jesus Path Sacrifice Teaching Crosses Salvation Easter

Author:Josh McDowell

“On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.”

World Christian Views Percent Scripture Worldview Relationship With God

Author:Josh McDowell

“No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.”

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Book:Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

Source: Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

“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.”

Mind Firsts Form Position Clothes Empty Stuck Graves Disciple Easter Tombs Easter Season

Author:Josh McDowell

“Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.”

People Reason Religion Jesus Names Claims

Author:Josh McDowell

“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.”

Pain Perfect Too Much Loneliness Promise Guilt God Love Resurrection God Loves Us Perfect Life Present Life

Book:Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

Source: Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

“If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.”

Ifs Past Dies Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Crosses Redemption Relevant Easter Focal Point

Author:Josh McDowell

“You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.”

Children Matter Answers Arms No Matter What Your Children Grandchildren Judgmental Being Judgmental

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“The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.”

People Believe Kids Given I Believe Youth Internet Equal Atheist Access Pastor Skeptic You Like It

Author:Josh McDowell

“I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.”

Father Hatred Alcoholics

Author:Josh McDowell

“Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.”

Found Lost Crisis Temper Arriving

Author:Josh McDowell

“Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.”

Firsts Christ Alive Events Occasions Easter Easter Season Religious Easter

Author:Josh McDowell

“Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.”

Belief Religious Being True Sincere Pathetic Religious Belief Illogical

Author:Josh McDowell

“Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.”

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“Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.”

Light Historical Documents Evaluate Historical Context

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“The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.”

Backgrounds Witness Resurrection Testament Surfing New Testament

Author:Josh McDowell

“As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.”

Christian Used Effort Talking Method Rewards Thrown Lions Beaten

Author:Josh McDowell

“Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.”

Century Information Source Historical Critics Primaries Resurrection Biblical Documents Testament New Testament 19th Century Reliability

Author:Josh McDowell

“Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.”

Stills Jesus Alive Majority Followers One Time Apostles Apostle Paul

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“When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.”

Said Remember Directors Meetings British Ridiculous Crusades Columbia British Columbia

Author:Josh McDowell

“Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of behavior, a philosophy, an ideology. But that's a myth. Christianity is not at all like Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism. The founders of those religions said (in effect), 'Here is what I teach. Believe my teachings. Follow my philosophy.' Jesus said, 'Follow me'(Matthew 9:9). Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)”

“Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.”

Book:Discipling the Young Person

Source: Discipling the Young Person

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Born: August 17, 1939
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 84

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