Christian faith argued from evidence and testimony.
Ankerberg Show treats Christian belief as something to be examined through evidence, scripture, history, and lived testimony. Its episodes move deliberately, giving scholars, ministry leaders, and debate guests room to make sustained cases about resurrection, culture, mission, and trust in God.
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Ankerberg Show is a Christian apologetics and ministry program shaped by formal interviews, extended guest explanations, and a steady confidence in historic Christian claims. It does not chase conversational speed. The show gives its subjects time to build an argument, often moving from an objection to a biblical answer, then from that answer to a larger claim about history, culture, or mission. In the episodes here, the resurrection of Jesus is a central concern. Dr. N. T. Wright discusses first-century Jewish belief, Gospel origins, early church testimony, and why resurrection language mattered as history rather than private religious experience. Dr. Gary Habermas appears in programs that frame the resurrection as a case built from accepted historical facts, miracles, and the broader question of whether Christianity stands or falls on Christ rising from the dead. Dr. Anthony Flew appears in debate material where the disagreement turns on evidence, premises, miracles, and what follows if those premises are granted. Other episodes widen the frame. Morgan Jackson describes the work of Faith Comes By Hearing, audio Bibles in many languages, remote villages, and women carrying the word of God into homes and communities. His stories about Mama Annette bring the program’s apologetic certainty into the register of family testimony, provision, and missionary vocation. Dr. Erwin Lutzer speaks to cultural anxiety, national decline, divine rule, and the church as something precious even under pressure. The show is direct. It is also earnest. Listeners should expect scripture, doctrinal conclusions, evangelistic appeals, and repeated ministry support language. Its best moments come when a guest is allowed to reason patiently, linking ancient sources, personal witness, and Christian conviction into one sustained case.
Made for: For Christians, seekers, and skeptics willing to sit with long-form arguments about scripture, resurrection, culture, and mission. It suits listeners who prefer formal teaching and debate over casual devotional conversation.
What sets it apart: The show combines apologetics, broadcast interviews, and missionary testimony in one serious format. It treats Christian claims as public arguments to be weighed, not merely private beliefs to be affirmed.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
John Ankerberg gives Christian apologetics a questioning, guest-led form grounded in historical argument, biblical interpretation, and testimony.
John Ankerberg puts Christian claims under direct questioning, usually by giving a guest room to build an argument rather than reducing the exchange to devotional reassurance. The show's apologetics can be unusually concrete: Anthony Flew and Dr.
The resurrection takes the witness stand, and John Ankerberg hands you the historian's notebook.
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A calm apologetics interview that argues for the Gospels through history, evidence, and restraint.
The episode makes a serious case about the Gospels, with N. T. Wright pressing back on the Jesus Seminar and on the reflex to treat church testimony as unreliable.
A family story that makes audio Bible ministry feel concrete, wide, and personal.
John Ankerberg spends the hour on Morgan Jackson's mother, Mama Annette, and uses that family memory to frame a larger case for audio Bibles, translated Scripture, and spoken access to the Bible around the world.
A grave, reassuring broadcast about decline, God's reign, and why Christians are meant to stay anchored.
This program takes a sober look at cultural decline and answers it with a steady claim: God still reigns, and the church still matters. John Ankerberg and Dr.
A serious, patient case for resurrection with historical intent.
The episode argues that resurrection is not being treated as a loose spiritual symbol, but as a claim meant to hold up in history. It leans on first century Jewish expectations, Acts 12, and the early church's own logic, and it keeps circling back to evidence, objection, and…
A formal resurrection debate that keeps the focus on evidence and objections.
This episode of the John Akerberg Show Classics Edition centers on the question of Jesus' resurrection, with Anthony Flew and Gary Habermas working through miracles, testimony, and the logic of the case.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features a classic debate between atheist philosopher Anthony Flew and Christian philosopher Gary Habermas on the historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection and its implications for Christianity.
This episode features Dr.
The episode centers on why the Jesus Seminar should not be treated as the final word on the Gospels.
John Ankerberg centers the hour on Morgan Jackson's mother.
John Ankerberg opens this Classics Edition by asking where the nation is headed.
The conversation on The John Akerberg Show Classics Edition centers on the claim that resurrection belongs in history.
John Ankerberg’s classics episode stages a debate between Anthony Flew, former Oxford philosophy professor, and Gary Habermas, chairman of philosophy at Liberty University, over whether Jesus rose from the dead.