Field kit
Pocket cards
Napkin versions of the core case. One card, one argument, a line you can actually say.
Kalam
Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began. Therefore it has a cause.
argumentFine-tuning
The constants sit in a life-permitting window too narrow to shrug off as luck.
argumentMoral law
If some things are really wrong, there is a real Moral Lawgiver.
argumentThe inner compass
The demand for fairness is not a habit you picked. It is a signature.
factThe manuscripts
The New Testament is the best-attested work of antiquity. Variants do not hide the story.
factThe 1 Corinthians 15 creed
Death, burial, resurrection, and appearances — dated to within a few years of the cross.
factThree documentary layers
Manuscript volume, early creeds, and the fathers’ citations. Reliability is not blind faith.
factJ.E.T.S. — the empty tomb
Jerusalem, enemy attestation, testimony of women, Sunday worship.
factThe claim was bodily
They did not preach a surviving spirit. They preached a raised body — so the empty tomb is a historical requirement, not a metaphor.
factMinimal facts
Death, empty tomb, appearances, and transformed lives — the resurrection fits the cluster.
factThree lines
Not blind faith. Medical death, the facts skeptics grant, and a Sabbath-to-Sunday shock — then the resurrection has to explain the stack.
tacticColumbo
The person who makes a claim owns the burden of proof. Ask before you argue.
postureThe ambassador
Knowledge, wisdom, and character. Leave one out and the other two sour.
postureThree steps
Clear the path, stack the case, then tell the truth with your life.
postureStart with Christianity
An intelligent seeker should start where a claim can actually be tested.
postureLabor command
Work was given before the Fall. Monday is a calling, not a curse.