The Sean McDowell Show

What Frank Turek Has Learned in 3 Decades of Ministry

In this conversation with Sean and Scottie McDowell, Frank walks through his own path to faith, including the Sunday morning in 1985 when a pastor answered his exact obje

5 Ancient Manuscripts That Confirm the New Testament’s Reliability

Dr. Dan Wallace has spent decades photographing and cataloging Greek New Testament manuscripts. After all of it, he says he has more confidence in the reliable transmissi

Why a Devout Muslim Abandoned Islam and Risked His Life to Follow Jesus

Danny Burmawi grew up in Jordan, where 98% of the population shares one sect of Islam and you rarely meet anyone outside it. In this conversation he explains what he thin

Why Charity Is Our Best Apologetics Today | Kristy Graham

In this episode, Dr. Sean McDowell interviews Kristy Graham from Samaritan's Purse to explore how practical charity, disaster relief, and caring for the suffering serve a

The Book of Enoch Explained: Nephilim, Demons & Genesis 6

The Book of Enoch has exploded online, and the claims run in both directions: some say it unlocks the Bible's biggest mysteries, others say it can't be trusted at all. Dr

Where Demons Actually Come From, According to Heiser

Most of what Christians picture when they hear "angel" came from medieval art and Vacation Bible School, not from the biblical text. Dr. Joel Muddamalle worked alongside

The "Lost" Gospels Are Back. What Do They Really Say About Jesus?

Bart Ehrman posed it as a hypothetical question: What if the canon had ended up containing the Gospels of Peter, Thomas, and Mary instead of Matthew, Mark, and Luke? I pu

Daniel 1:1-8: The Principles You Decide Before the Pressure Comes

Here's a question worth sitting with: what are the principles you actually live by? In this message I look at Daniel. They changed where he lived, what he studied, the la

The Lost Site of the Tabernacle...Have We Found It? | Big Update

Scott Stripling's team put out a press release about their latest season at Shiloh. Roughly 400 news stories followed. What his team actually found is more interesting. S

What 50 Years Studying the Resurrection Taught Me - Gary Habermas

Gary Habermas has likely studied the historical evidence for the resurrection more than anyone who has ever lived. He's just finished a four-volume work on it and he told

Book of Mormon vs the Gospels: Comparing the Witness Testimony

How reliable are the eleven witnesses who attest to the Book of Mormon? Dr. Rob Bowman, author of Jesus' Resurrection and Joseph's Visions, joins me to do a deep dive com

The New Mormonism: How LDS Beliefs Are Changing

Mormonism is changing and the version of it a Latter-day Saint holds today may look almost nothing like the version their parents held. I sat down with Aaron Shafovaloff

Asking a Mormon Leader My Hardest Questions

I got a tour inside the San Diego Latter-day Saint temple and now I'm following up with an interview with Neal Walton who is a stake president in the Church of Jesus Chri

Scott Rae Debunks 10 Common Moral Slogans

Can you legislate morality? Is secular ethics neutral? Did Jesus really say "never judge"? Dr. Scott Rae, one of the world's leading Christian ethicists and Sean's Think

J.P. Moreland on Suffering, Doubt, and Facing Death Without Fear

J.P. Moreland is one of the most influential Christian philosophers alive and he's spent the last twelve years enduring what most of us never will: a rare genetic conditi

The Most Uncomfortable Chapter in Acts? Peter, James, and the Problem of Evil

God sent an angel to break Peter out of prison. But one chapter earlier, He let James be executed. Same God, same church, same prayers. Why rescue one apostle and not the

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Does Evil Actually Prove God Exists? | Christian vs. Atheist Dialogue

"If God is good, why is there pain and suffering?". Today, we have a video of atheist professor Paul Rinzler and I to discuss evil. This is our return to the Cal Poly Ver

The Most Compelling Heaven Testimonies Ever Collected? | Skeptic Investigates 140 NDEs

Randy Kay was a biotech CEO and a self-described skeptic who didn't believe in near-death experiences until he flatlined for 30 minutes in 2005 and, in his telling, found

Is Michael Heiser's Unseen Realm the Best Way to Read the Bible?

Giants. A divine council. Demons and the Nephilim. Michael Heiser made the Bible's strangest passages impossible to ignore and sold hundreds of thousands of books doing i