The Case For Christmas With Lee Strobel

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Is Christmas an elaborate hoax—or the pivotal point in human history? This week on The Roys Report, I’ll be interviewing atheist-turned Christian, Lee Strobel, about The Case for Christmas. Is the virgin birth really a concept that intelligent people can accept? What about the idea of God incarnating a man? Lee will be sharing new material not included in any of his best-selling books.  Join us for The Roys Report, this Saturday morning at 11 on AM 1160 Hope for Your Life, and on Sunday night at 7 on AM 560 The Answer!

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Lee Strobel

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 forty books and curricula that have sold fourteen million copies in total. He is Founding Director of the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University. His books include The Case for Christ, which is also available as a movie on Netflix; The Case for Faith; The Case for a Creator; The Case for Grace; and The Case for Christmas. He and Leslie have been married 47 years and divide their time between Houston and Denver.

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ANNOUNCER:  In the midst of all of today’s noise and confusion, we need a voice that cuts through the chaos to bring wisdom and clarity. Welcome to The Roys Report with Julie Roys—an hour-long show exploring critical issues related to faith and culture from a uniquely Christian perspective. Now, here’s your host, Julie Roys.

JULIE ROYS: Is Christmas and elaborate hoax or the pivotal point in human history? And can an intelligent person really embrace that God became a man or that a virgin conceived a child? Welcome to The Roys Report brought to you in part by Judson University. I’m Julie Roys. And today we’re going to be examining Christmas. And when I say Christmas, I don’t mean the trappings of Christmas, the tree and the gifts and the holiday parties. But Christmas itself. The birth of Christ, the incarnate Son of God in a manger in Bethlehem. Sure, we sing the songs about His birth, and we put out nativity scenes on our front lawns. But do we really believe the Christmas story? And are there any good reasons to think that the biblical account is actually true? Well, joining me today as someone who used to be an atheist, but then he investigated the claims of Christianity. And to his surprise, ended up embracing the faith that he had railed against for his entire life up to that point. His name is Lee Strobel. And for many of you, he needs no introduction. He’s authored more than 40 books that have sold 14 million copies. And his book, The Case for Christ which tells about his personal journey to faith has been made into a movie that’s now available on Netflix. He’s also done lots of other “Case For” books, including The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, The Case for Grace and the book we’re going to be talking about today, The Case for Christmas. So Lee, welcome to the program. It is such a joy to talk to you.

LEE STROBEL: Well, thanks Julie. Always great to talk with you. Hope you having a great Christmas season.

JULIE ROYS: We are. Although it’s kind of just going to begin after today because [I’ve been] working up into this point. And then I’m looking forward to doing a lot of last minute Christmas shopping.

LEE STROBEL: Yeah, me too. I got a little bit ahead of me.

JULIE ROYS: Well, it’s good to know that there’s some other last minute folks like me out there. You know, I was thinking the last time we talked I think was in 2017. That was when your movie came out about your life. Was absolutely phenomenal movie. And people, if