Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels
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Overview
Christians should be prepared to defend and share their faith, even while wrestling with doubts and questions that arise from within and without. With thousands of books out there—not to mention content on social media—where do we start? Testimonies to the Truth, Lydia McGrew’s fourth book on New Testament reliability, provides a great starting point. With a heart for evangelism, equipping believers, and scholarship, McGrew brings together new arguments and old ones in a form that is readily accessible to laymen while being careful and rigorous. With these arguments in hand, you will never be stumped when someone asks, “Why should I believe what the Bible says about the life and teachings of Jesus?” Above all, McGrew points to Jesus himself, true God and true man, the One who teaches, loves, and suffers for us, described by the Gospels in vivid and credible detail. Including suggested study and discussion questions and references for further reading and research, Testimonies to the Truth provides an excellent resource for personal study, Sunday School, high school and college classes, and small groups.
Categories of evidence covered include:
- Undesigned coincidences-puzzle-like connections between the details in different Gospel stories.
- Little-known facts from outside the Bible that confirm details in the Gospels.
- Unexplained allusions and unnecessary details-little things that the authors mention apparently just because they are true.
- The personalities of Peter, Martha, and Mary in stories from different Gospels.
- The unified personality of Jesus himself.
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- Provides a starting point for Christians to defend and share their faith
- Brings together new and old arguments in a form accessible to laymen while being rigorous
- Includes suggested study questions and references for further reading and research
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Location, Location, Location
- 2. Customs and Culture
- 3. Undesigned Coincidences
- 4. Unnecessary Details
- 5. Unexplained Allusions
- 6. Unexpected Harmonies
- 7. Unified Personalities
- 8. Unmistakable Jesus
- Study Guide Answers
- Endnotes
- Index
This is McGrew’s best book to date! … McGrew dips back into nineteenth-century observations long forgotten, stirs in better-known recent ones and adds a few of her own discoveries for flavor.
—Craig L. Blomberg
Lydia McGrew offers a fresh and powerful case for the reliability of the Gospels. Resurrecting some classic arguments and yet offering some unique insights, Testimonies to the Truth deserves to be read by skeptics and believers alike. This is one of the top books I will now be recommending on why the Gospels can be trusted.
—Sean McDowell
Absolutely fascinating! … Discovering these insights will help you savor the Gospels in a whole new way.
—Natasha Crain
- Title: Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels
- Author: Lydia McGrew
- Publisher: DeWard Publishing Company
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 276
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; Bible › Gospels; Bible › Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible › Gospels--Evidences, authority, etc; Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9781947929265, 1947929232, 9781947929234, 1947929267
- Resource ID: LLS:TSTMNSTRTHGSPLS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-11-03T20:42:27Z