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Josh McDowell
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 17
,
1939
Christ
First
God
Life
People
You
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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Josh McDowell
Death
Future
Good
You
Matter
Promises
Face
Pain
Our
Immeasurable
Temporary
Only
Struggles
Resurrection
Troubles
Devastating
Disappointments
How
Tragedy
Loved
Loved Ones
Happens
Depth
Your
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.
Josh McDowell
Attitude
God
Prayer
Heart
Words
He
Concerned
Knows
Talking
Your
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.
Josh McDowell
Life
Future
God
Alone
Loneliness
Too Much
Guilt
Promises
Pain
Too
Our
Perfect
Resurrection
Perfect Life
New
Contend
Leave
While
Loves
Us
Much
Present
Present Life
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
Josh McDowell
Matter
Our
Temporary
Only
Struggles
Troubles
Devastating
Disappointments
How
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
Josh McDowell
Truth
Truth Is
Gone
Objective
Had
Self-Centered
Major
Shift
Subjective
Being
Where
Internal
External
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 God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.
Josh McDowell
Life
Love
God
Great
Joy
Problems
Power
Nothing
Too
Insignificant
About
Small
Had
Concerned
Learned
Because
Deal
His
Nor
Any
Anything
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. Don't go it alone - you won't make it.
Josh McDowell
Alone
You
Healing
People
Christ
Church
Preach
Everything
Plus
Make
Greatest
Go
Sources
Off
Salvation
After
Which
Cut
Body
Jesus
Need
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.
Josh McDowell
Future
Forgiveness
Time
History
Christ
Past
Focal
Focal Point
Claimed
Relevant
Cross
Point
He
Redemption
Because
Very
Did
Die
Then
Who
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
Josh McDowell
Events
Christ
First
Several
Alive
Easter
Cataclysmic
Occasions
After
Appeared
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.
Josh McDowell
Religion
Be True
Other
Say
All Religions
Religions
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Some
True
Sincere
Because
Opposed
Diametrically
Pathetic
Anyone
Cannot
Them
Each
Illogical
Beliefs
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.
Josh McDowell
God
Bible
Son
Christ
Christianity
Out
True
Conclusion
Came
Intellectually
Refute
After
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Set
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
Josh McDowell
You
Live
Design
Define
Purity
Never
Had
According
Anyone
Original
Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.
Josh McDowell
News
Youth
People
Competition
Internet
Young
Every
Parent
Most
Spreading
Bloggers
Pastor
Get
Information
Young People
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
Josh McDowell
You
Light
Document
Read
Always
Context
Historical
Any
Whenever
Evaluate
Now
My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.
Josh McDowell
Time
Man
Speak
Wife
Else
Everything
Books
Everything Else
Degrees
More
Opens
Known
Greatest
His
Children
Loves
Who
Platform
Daddy
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.
Josh McDowell
Christ
Resurrection
Weeks
Simplest
Had
He
Dead
Disciples
Within
Answer
Been
Proclaimed
Them
Bodily
Appeared
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Here
Raised
I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
Josh McDowell
Father
Hatred
Once
Had
Mainly
Toward
Lot
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.
Josh McDowell
Christ
Face
Earth
Would
Scheme
Had
Dead
Been
Where
Anyone
Place
Convince
Jerusalem
Hardest
Raised
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.
Josh McDowell
Morning
People
Sunday
First
Half
Sunday Morning
Lodged
Had
Unusual
First Thing
Been
Impressed
Stone
Front
The First Thing
Doorway
Who
Tomb
Thing
Ton
Two
Position
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
Josh McDowell
Myself
Peace
Lost
Once
Crisis
Temper
Constantly
Arriving
Where
Experiencing
Found
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.
Josh McDowell
You
Youth
People
Internet
Believe
Everything
Destroy
Kids
Atheists
Given
Almost
Like
Equal
Access
Pastor
Whether
Your
Agnostic
Who
I thought Christians were walking idiots.
Josh McDowell
Thought
Idiots
Were
Walking
Christians
If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.
Josh McDowell
Life
Path
Sacrifice
Would
Totally
Cross
More
Were
His
Than
Salvation
Then
Teachings
Jesus
Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
Josh McDowell
Mom
Needs
Every
Say
Kid
Want
Mom And Dad
Dad
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.
Josh McDowell
Church
Will
Come
Families
Lack
Disintegration
Apologetic
Teaching
Downfall
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