In what is perhaps Dr. Bowman’s most popular seminar, Christians will be encouraged—and challenged—to develop their minds as disciples of Jesus Christ and in faithfulness to the double-love command to love God with all that we are, including our minds, and to love our neighbors. This seminar explains what apologetics is, why it is important for all believers, and how to develop a Christian mind that is equipped to know and defend the gospel.

At least once a year, TV documentaries like the Discovery Channel’s Rameses: Wrath of God or Man? and NOVA’s The Bible’s Buried Secrets expose the public to skepticism about the Old Testament. Meanwhile, in almost every college and university and in every semester, professors teach their students that modern scholarship shows that Moses (if he even lived) wrote little or none of the Pentateuch, the Exodus never occurred, and Joshua never conquered Jericho. This seminar refutes these common criticisms and equips Christians to have confidence in the historical reliability of the Old Testament.

This seminar highlights the special importance of Paul’s speech in Athens, found in Acts 17, for Christian apologetics. It puts the speech in its broader context in Paul’s ministry and in the Book of Acts, explains what Paul was saying to the Athenians, and shows how Paul’s speech applies to our contemporary cultural context.

This presentation explains why Christians need to be prepared to make the case for Jesus’ resurrection as an historical event, and how they can do so. Participants learn the four fundamental facts on which the case rests (Jesus’ death, burial, empty tomb, and appearances) and multiple lines of evidence that supports each of those four facts.

Many thousands of people are leaving false religions such as Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormonism. Unfortunately, most of them are becoming nonreligious or even skeptics. Having been taught that their religion was the only one that could be true and that traditional Christianity was hopelessly corrupt, once they abandon their religion they lose any belief in Christ. This presentation addresses the most common reasons for this phenomenon. It explains how former members of false versions of Christianity can build a new faith in Christ on a solid foundation of truth.