I decided to blog a list of notable professing/professed Christian testimonies (or biographies). By notable, I don't necessarily mean they are genuine Christian testimonies. For example, there are some testimonies that involve claims of supernatural events and occurrences. While I believe that God still works supernaturally in the world, I also believe that there are spiritual counterfeits (not to mention con artists and frauds who knowingly make false claims).
Having said that, there are some testimonies here which I believe are from genuine Christians. Some of whom I highly respect and admire. Given those caveats, know that listening to testimonies and accepting them is like purchasing goods and services. The buyer should beware (caveat emptor).
Some of these are videos and others are in written format.
Christian intellectuals
Love The Lord with Heart and Mind
Various Evangelical intellectuals and scholars answer a questionnaire about their Christian experience.
https://calvindude.org/ebooks/stevehays/Love-the-Lord-with-Heart-and-Mind.pdf
If the above link goes dead, search for it at the main Triablogue website HERE.
Dr. Michael L. Brown testimony from his website
http://askdrbrown.org/about-dr-brown/personal-testimony
Dr. Michael L. Brown testimony (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBg1cEedSk&feature=channel&list=UL
Brown's Testimony on It's Supernatural TV show
http://youtu.be/WCYlWNKGc_g
Brown's Testimony "From LSD to PhD" on Think It Thru
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK3bDDVQYhg&feature=share&list=PL537B5C72819368BB
or HERE http://youtu.be/TvW44gbk3CY
William Lane Craig's Conversion Testimony
World renowned Christian apologist William Lane Craig shares his conversion testimony to Christianity. Well known in the atheist community, Craig has had numerous debates with leading atheists and Muslims. He has debated or dialogued with three of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism" (D. Dennett, S. Harris, C. Hitchens). The fourth, Richard Dawkins, refuses to debate Craig. Fellow atheist and Oxford doctor of philosophy Daniel Came implied that Dawkins' refusal could be interpreted as "cowardice" on his part. Dawkins seems to be willing to make any excuse so that he doesn't have to debate Craig one on one. Atheist Luke Muehlhauser wrote, "As far as I can tell, he [Craig] has won nearly all his debates with atheists...I’m not the only one who thinks Craig has won nearly all his debates. For some atheists, it is rather maddening." Regarding the Craig/Hitchens debate, he said Craig won so convincingly that, "Frankly, Craig spanked Hitchens like a foolish child." Atheist scholar (and Champion of sorts) Richard Carrier admitted that he lost his debate against Craig. Sam Harris, in his debate against Craig started out by saying (tongue-in-cheek) that Craig was "...the one Christian apologist who seems to have put the 'fear of God' into many of my fellow atheists [at 27 minutes and 40 seconds]" because many of his atheist friends begged him to make sure he did not lose the debate. Atheist leader John W. Loftus wrote immediately after the Craig/Harris debate that "Bill (Craig) has once again showed himself as the best debater of this generation, that's for sure."
Craig's numerous debate opponents have included:
Frank Zindler (in 1993), who served as interim president of the atheist organization American Atheists in 2008.
Paul Kurtz, considered by some to be the "father of modern secular humanism".
Antony Flew, who was one of the most noted atheist philosophers in the 20th Century.
A. C. Grayling, future Vice-president of the British Humanist Association.
William Lane Craig's Testimony (Highly Recommended)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAAE2_vLsY
The Impact the Resurrection Has on Craig (Highly Recommended)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iyxR8uE9GQ&feature=youtu.be&t=56m13s
Why William Lane Craig is a Christian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJd9XMJW9xc&NR=1
About the "Sandy" that led William Lane Craig to the Lord
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/sandy-tiffan-ackerman
An article on Craig at The Chronicle of Higher Education
The New Theist: How William Lane Craig became Christian philosophy's boldest apostle
http://chronicle.com/article/The-New-Theist/140019/
William Lane Craig's favorite philosopher is Alvin Plantinga
http://youtu.be/c09N0JuT27A
Alvin Plantinga's Spiritual Autobiography
http://www.calvin.edu/125th/wolterst/p_bio.pdf
Steve Hays
Why I Believe: A Positive Apologetic (part 1)
Why I Believe: I'm Glad You Asked! (part 2)
Steve also contributed to the above questionnaire "Love The Lord with Heart and Mind"
Craig Keener
http://sites.google.com/site/drckeener/faithstory
C.S. Lewis (dramatized documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyCqhzVZVE
different portion of same documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brMKhhbQShU
The Comparative World Views of two Great Thinkers in the 20th Century, C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtL2wHhtW2A&feature=channel&list=UL
James White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9f7F0A7dgM
Scientists who are Christian
Francis Collins (head of Human Genome Project)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qygy14tC3I&feature=related
Hugh Ross (astrophysicist)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmzAdqqLks
Christian pastors, evangelists, motivational speakers etc.
Franklin Graham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjdDY7pbUyQ
The Life Story of Erwin Lutzer (talks about destiny decisions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShK9KNceacA
Lutzer's impersonation of Billy Graham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZYqyKT1XNM
David Ring (born with cerebral palsy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jhc50qGnF0
Matt Slick's Testimony
http://carm.org/matt-slicks-testimony
Sam Storms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfpvyNhb7y4
Nick Vujicic (born without arms or legs) [CBN version 8 minutes]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl58qufXfYk
Nick Vujicic part 1 of 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snDQe3tWwRQ
Celebrities, Athletes and Singers
I'm hesitant to include celebrities and athletes because I suspect that many aren't as committed to being and living as Christians as they appear. Nevertheless, here are some that are interesting to me.
Mike Singletary's Testimony
http://youtu.be/SgGODeY3iAY
Michael Chang's Testimony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL1-84YD_tg&feature=channel&list=UL
Jeremy Lin's Testimony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ61OkF3qDk&feature=channel&list=UL
Tim Tebow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIpVjFnr9iI&feature=channel&list=UL
The Keith Green Story
http://youtu.be/fXOhSScVMUs
Christian testimonies that contain difficult to believe claims. You decide if they seem credible or not.
Ian McCormack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=-MBeiwIewtE&NR=1
Kamal Saleem a former Jihadist becomes a Christian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKR6IKvha1Q
Miscellaneous testimonies
Peter Hitchens (brother of famous atheist Christopher Hitchens)
http://vimeo.com/10354237
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