Today Point of View‘s host is Kerby Anderson! His first guest is Gary Frazier. He and Kerby will talk about Discovery Missions. In the second hour, Kerby welcomes author & apologist Lee Strobel.
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Gary is the founder and President of Discovery Missions International, headquartered in the Dallas and Ft. Worth Texas metroplex. He is a respected speaker and writer on the subject of Bible prophecy and current events, has appeared on numerous documentaries, the History Channel, and national radio programs. Authoring numerous books, he is a contributor to the Tim LaHaye Prophecy Study Bible, The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy, and travels nationally speaking in many of America’s largest churches. He has degrees from Criswell College, Southwestern Seminary and Louisiana Baptist University, his Doctor of Humanities degree from Liberty University and Doctor of Divinity from International Seminary in Plymouth, FL.
Lee is the founding director for the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University near Denver.
He was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism degree) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law degree). He was a journalist for fourteen years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois’ highest honor for public service journalism and investigative reporting from United Press International.
After probing the evidence for Jesus, Lee became a Christian in 1981. He subsequently became a teaching pastor at three of America’s largest churches and hosted the national network TV program Faith Under Fire. In addition, he taught First Amendment law at Roosevelt University and was Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University.
In 2017, Lee’s spiritual journey was depicted in an award-winning theatrical-released motion picture, The Case for Christ. Lee has won national awards for his books The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and The Case for Grace. His latest book is The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death (Zondervan, September 2021).
Lee and Leslie Strobel have been married for almost 50 years. Their daughter, Alison, is a novelist, and their son, Kyle, is a professor of spiritual theology at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. They have four grandchildren.