I'm very excited about our activity this weekend! Initially we had planned to leave super-extra early on Sunday morning to hear Lee Strobel speak, but we found out that he's also going to be speaking Saturday evening, so we've moved our activity to then. If you or your teen would like to attend, we'll meet at the building Saturday at 3:00 p.m. We will stop for dinner on the way down to hear Lee Speak at 6:00. And we should be back at the building around 9:30 for pick up. Again, this event is free (besides the cost of dinner - we'll stop somewhere fun)! Read more about Lee Strobel below and let me know if you teen will attend - he is definitely worth the time and trip! Lee's books are some that I consider very essential and important to my life as a Christian. I've linked his titles below to Berean so feel free check them out. He's one of the best experts in apologetics in the Kingdom. Check out his amazing biography and come hear him speak with us!
Lee Strobel has a story to tell and a message that everyone needs to hear - he is the award winning author of Case for the Real Jesus, Case for Christ, and Case for Faith. He has been interviewed on numerous national television programs, including ABC, Fox, PBS, and CNN, and was described by the Washington Post as “one of the evangelical community’s most popular apologists.
Lee Strobel will be speaking at Horizon North County Church at all four of our regular service times on Memorial Day Weekend. Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than twenty books and has been interviewed on numerous national television programs, including ABC, Fox, PBS, and CNN. His free e-newsletter, “Investigating Faith,” is available at LeeStrobel.com.
Described by the Washington Post as “one of the evangelical community’s most popular apologists,” Lee Strobel shared the Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 for a curriculum he co-authored about the movie The Passion of the Christ. He also has won Gold Medallions for his books The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. His latest book, The Case for the Real Jesus, was published in 2007.
Lee was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism degree, 1974) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law degree, 1979). He was a professional journalist for 14 years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois’ top honors for investigative reporting (which he shared with a team he led) and public service journalism from United Press International.
After a nearly two-year investigation of the evidence for Jesus, Lee received Christ as his forgiver and leader in 1981. He joined the staff of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL, in 1987, and later became a teaching pastor there. He joined Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, CA, as a teaching pastor in 2000. He left Saddleback’s staff in mid-2002 to focus on writing. He is also a contributing editor and columnist for Outreach magazine.
Lee’s other books include God’s Outrageous Claims, The Case for Christmas, The Case for Easter, What Jesus Would Say, Exploring the Da Vinci Code (co-authored with Garry Poole) and Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage, which he wrote with his wife, Leslie. For two seasons, Lee Strobel was executive producer and host of the weekly national network television program Faith Under Fire.
Lee also is co-author of the Becoming a Contagious Christian course, which has trained more than a million Christians in evangelism, and his articles have been published in a variety of magazines, including Discipleship Journal, Marriage Partnership, The Christian Research Journal, Guideposts, and Decision. He has appeared on such national radio programs as The Bible Answer Man and Focus on the Family. In addition, he has taught First Amendment law at Roosevelt University.
In recognition of his extensive research for his books, Southern Evangelical Seminary honored Lee with the conferring of a Doctor of Divinity degree in 2007. Lee and Leslie have been married for 35 years and live in Southern California. Their daughter, Alison, is a published novelist (Worlds Collide and Violette Between) and their son, Kyle, holds two master’s degrees (philosophy of religion and New Testament) and is currently pursuing a doctorate in theology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His first book, Metamorpha: Jesus as a Way of Life, was published in 2007.
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Last Saturday evening we went to the annual Somebody Loves You L.A. crusade at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Saturday night is directed towards teens and young adults and we went for the full experience. We arrived early to check out the booths and exhibits in the convention center lobby. We few professional skaters, including Lance Mountain and Steve Caballeros) were doing a live painting (you can check it out above). The event itself was awesome with attendance in the thousands. The musical concert was first and featured Phil Wickham, Rebirth (featuring Annointed S, a seriously insane beat-boxer), and P.O.D. P.O.D. pretty much tore the roof off of the place. After the music, pastor Raul Ries gave a gospel message encouraging young people to give their lives to Christ, or to continue living their lives for Christ. It was a great evening and we'll have to look ahead to next year. You can get more information at: http://www.somebodylovesyoula.com/
Phillip Martinez is serving in the US Army and could really use our encouragement right now. His address is:
