Four-session DVD small group curriculum based on Lee Strobel's popular PAX-TV program.Using video clips from the popular PAX-TV program Faith Under Fire, this cutting-edge curriculum features spirited discussions between well-respected Christians, people of other faiths, or people with no faith at all on important spiritual and social issues. Host Lee Strobel, bestselling author of The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith, provides additional comments to guide small group discussion.Guests include: Rick Warren, Joni Eareckson Tada, Randy Alcorn, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, Hugh Hewitt, David Limbaugh, Tony Campolo, Richard Land, and more.Each volume contains a four-session DVD and leader's guide, and is intended to be used in conjunction with a corresponding participant's guide (sold separately).Faith Under Fire 1: Faith & JesusFour sessions on Jesus, the resurrection, universalism, and the supernaturalFaith Under Fire 2: Faith & FactsFour sessions on the Bible, heaven, hell, and scienceFaith Under Fire 3: Tough Faith QuestionsFour sessions on forgiveness, pain and suffering, the Trinity, and IslamFaith Under Fire 4: A New Kind of FaithFour sessions on the relevance of ChristianityFaith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel, airs every Saturday at 10pm EST on PAX.

Faith & Jesus Participant’s Guide
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Is the
Supernatural
Real?
Session 1
Read It!
Wishful Thinking?
As spotlights streak across the world-famous monument, suspense
spreads among the live audience of New Yorkers gathered
to witness the spectacle. With the dramatic flair of a seasoned
showman, David Copperfield shocks and amazes an estimated
fifty million people
watching by television — the Statue of Liberty
disappears! Go figure. Is it a miracle, magic, or a trick of the
eye?
Intricate patterns and complex geometric designs mysteriously
appear in farm fields overnight. Aerial photographs offer the best
view of these veritable works of art created by flattened wheat
and corn crops: people
around the world are calling them crop
circles. Are they alien navigational tools, electromagnetic natural
occurrences, or a group of talented artists tromping around at
midnight with boards strapped to their feet?
A twenty-year-old Estonian woman lost her sight after a head
injury when she was a little girl. Doctors diagnosed lifelong disability.
During a televised 2003 healing conference, however, she
put her hands on her eyes during a service
and prayed along with
the leader. “When I took my hands away I was able to see!” she
exclaimed. Miracle, magic, or a staged television scam?
An Arizona housewife’s psychic ability to communicate with
the dead helps solve crimes, piecing together complicated, confusing
clues. Is it an accurate source for legitimate investigations,
supernatural communication from God, satanic activity, or simply
an intriguing concept for a prime-time television show?
Moses stretched out his hand over the Red Sea, and all night
long a strong east wind drove the waters back and formed a path
of dry land. With a wall of water on their right and left, the Israelites
crossed over to the other side without getting wet — not even
a single drop. Miracle, myth, a great scene for a bearded Charlton
Heston, or a natural occurrence with lucky timing?
When Jesus fed a crowd of five thousand with only five loaves
of bread and two fish, he looked up to heaven, gave thanks, and
handed the meager food to the disciples, who in turn passed it
to all the people.
Everyone ate and was satisfied, and when they
counted the leftovers, there were twelve basketfuls. Did the food
miraculously multiply, did the disciples make it all up, or did Jesus
simply inspire the crowd to pull out their hidden lunches and
share what was already there?
Do miracles really happen? Or are they the exaggerated result
of mere wishful thinking? This is a foundational issue to the identity
of Jesus of Nazareth. To believe he’s the unique Son of God
who proved it by rising from the dead, we need to first believe the
supernatural is possible. But is it — really?
Watch It!
Use the following space to take notes as you view the video in
which Lee Strobel interviews Dr. J. P. Moreland, a Christian
philosopher,
and skeptical attorney Edward Tabash.
Discuss It!
1 Consider the following list of events: a spectacular sunset, the
birth of a baby, the healing of a broken bone, a complete recovery
from cancer without medical treatment, and a man walking
on water. Which of these events, if any, would you label as a
miracle? Why?
2 Define miracle. Define supernatural occurrence. Is a miracle a
supernatural occurrence and vice versa? Explain.
3 Have you or anyone you know ever had a personal experience
that you believe to be a modern-day miracle or a supernatural
occurrence? Tell about that experience.

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