The Case for Christ Student Edition: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (Case for … Series for Students) Student Edition, Kindle Edition

Very readable and understandable for 12 and older who have some thinking going on a deeper level of spiritual things. Same content as Adult version, but make in understandable language, age appropriate.

As a Christian who grew up not needing faith but just assuming faith, I now have questions as an adult about what I blindly believed. I also have a hard time engaging non believers about my faith. This book has been great for answering my own questions and giving me talking points for people I encounter

Used as part of a class curriculum. Students enjoyed it and it was easy to follow.

Written from a journalist point of view, lee strobel really did into some of the difficult questions about Christianity and answers them in a direct way.

I really liked the way Lee appoached each argument & broke them down with the truth. I thought he did a great job. I highly recommend this book.

The student edition is a amazing read with my teenagers. It helped guide our conversations in a open and safe manner. Lee explores all the areas we may be thinking, but can't put into words. My teens were digging into their thoughts and conclusions with openness to talk it out. I really enjoyed watching my teens work out their own faith while going through Case for Christ.

Great Sunday morning read with the kids. Our church time with the book was very thought provoking. Good book to read

I couldn’t put this down. It solidifies my belief and strengthens my faith allowing Jesus back into my heart. Thank you.

As someone who came to faith and then to journalism, the opposite way round from Lee Strobel, his story has always intrigued me. It is the true story of how an award-winning investigative journalist, the one-time legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, sets out to use his ‘particular set of skills’ to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife Leslie who stuns him with her announcement. "I rolled my eyes and braced for the worst,” he says, “feeling like the victim of a bait-and-switch scam. I thought she was going to turn into some sexually repressed prude… and spend all her time serving the poor in skid row somewhere.” His story is now a 2017 released film starring Faye Dunaway, known to the older generation for her roles in ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ and ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, and Mike Vogel in the role of the reporter on a quest for the real truth surrounding a very big story indeed.In the book Strobel sorts through the evidence of the case for or against Christ that he uncovers over the subsequent year and nine months. He begins with whether Jesus, himself, really thought he was God looking at such ‘blasphemous’ statements as: ’I and the Father are one’ in John 10. He moves on to the quantity of Old Testament prophecy Jesus manages to fulfil, like Zechariah 9:9, asking if Jesus was just trying to add to his Messiah credentials when he said to the disciples, ‘Go fetch me a donkey’. But then he asks how he could arrange the place of his birth, predicted by the prophet Micah in chapter 5:2. He finds too the ‘129 hours of eyewitness testimony saying Jesus came back to life’ that addresses the question: How do we know for sure whether the Resurrection happened?He examines the external corroboration of biblical accounts through historians like Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny and the Talmud, and also through archaeology citing Sir William Ramsey of Oxford University who concluded that Luke was one of the most accurate historians who had ever written. He reads through ‘words that work when put into practice again and again in the areas of finance, stress and character qualities’ that lead him to ask if it is possible that the Bible really is God’s inspired word. He discovers the ‘final confirming proof’ of encounters with Jesus today, citing philosophy professor J P Moreland: “It’s the ongoing encounter with the resurrected Christ that happens all over the world, in every culture, to people from all kinds of backgrounds and personalities. They will all tell you… Jesus Christ has changed them.”The book presents intelligent evidence for consideration, and this student edition has a light and accessible treatment. It sits alongside other key works of modern popular apologetics such as Frank Morrison’s ‘Who Moved the Stone?’ Josh McDowell’s ‘Evidence That Demands a Verdict’ and J Warner Wallace’s ‘God's Crime Scene’. In times of such social division, where groups can dismiss Christ on account of their perceptions or experiences of his followers, this book offers a good way back to foundations, to Jesus himself, and to the crucial question of what to make of the Bethlehem babe.In the end, Lee Strobel tells his wife of his conclusion: he can no longer swim upstream against the evidence. “Instead, I was going in the same direction as the facts seemed to be flowing,” he says. She starts crying and in language befitting any Chicago news room says: "You hard hearted son-of-a-*&#, I've been telling you this for two years…" Touché.By this reviewer: The SilencerThe Silencer

I haven't actually finished reading this yet, but so far it is excellent. It's written in a very accessible style; so far I can say that he's using a lot of the logic that CS Lewis used, but in a more colloquial style. I would definitely recommend it; it was recommended to me by a relative who had not had a Christian up-bringing and knew absolutely nothing about the BIble, or had misconceived a good bit of what he did know. I think he is now "in the process" of re-thinking his beliefs (or lack of them) probably in no small part because of this book.

It is a riveting read and traces the suthor’s journey frrom being an atheist to a believer. He forensically examines the case for the historical Jesus and independently verified truths of the gospels.

A fantastic book. Ideal for those wishing to know more about Christ (the person, as historically documented) yet the book is written in an easy, interesting and a delightful way. An excellent book and an easy read that cuts to the chase and and is unafraid to ask some serious questions and then reveal some serious and interesting answers. Very educational, enlightening and inspirational. A good book for believers and doubters alike.

Fantastic variation to the original. A good way to see what the original is all about.