{"id":512,"date":"2015-02-13T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T10:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithsearch.org\/blogs\/rw\/?p=512"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:38:10","slug":"2015-benefit-dinner-silent-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/ministry\/2015-benefit-dinner-silent-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Benefit Dinner &#038; Silent Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Benefit-buckslip-anc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-513 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Benefit-buckslip-anc.jpg\" alt=\"Benefit-buckslip-anc\" width=\"574\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Benefit-buckslip-anc.jpg 574w, http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Benefit-buckslip-anc-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a>We are once again planning the details for our <strong>2015 Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction<\/strong>. It will be held <strong>May 2, at Grace Church in Eden Prairie, MN<\/strong>. If you will be in the Twin Cities at that time, I encourage you to plan to attend. Here&#8217;s a good reason to make a reservation:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our keynote speaker, <strong>J. Warner Wallace<\/strong>, has a captivating presentation. Interestingly, he also points to the evidence which demonstrates the truth of the New Testament accounts. His first book, <em>Cold-Case Christianity<\/em>, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #666666;\">provides readers with ten principles of cold case investigations and utilizes these principles to examine the reliability of the Gospel eyewitness accounts.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0How does a homicide detective approach a crime scene and determine what happened? How can we apply\u00a0this approach to analyze the accounts in the Gospels? I had the pleasure to hear him speak recently, and I encourage you: <strong>DO\u00a0NOT miss this opportunity. <\/strong>He\u00a0is entertaining, enlightening, and encouraging!<\/p>\n<p>J. Warner Wallace is a retired cold-case homicide detective. He&#8217;s a tough cop with a no-nonsense approach to truth, and he has a heart for people who have been misled about the case for Christianity. His case work has been featured on national television, examining evidence and\u00a0resolving crimes long thought to be unsolvable. His Web site, <a title=\"Cold-Case Christianity, by Jim Wallace\" href=\"http:\/\/coldcasechristianity.com\" target=\"_blank\">coldcasechristianity.com<\/a>, explains that Wallace<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">was a conscientious and vocal atheist through his undergraduate and graduate work in Design and Architecture (CSULB and UCLA); he always considered himself to be an \u201cevidentialist\u201d. His experience in law enforcement only served to strengthen his conviction that <strong>truth is tied directly to evidence<\/strong>. But at the age of thirty-five, J. Warner took a serious and expansive look at the <strong>evidence for the Christian Worldview<\/strong> and determined that <strong>Christianity was demonstrably true<\/strong>. After becoming a Christ follower in 1996, Jim continued to take an evidential approach to truth as he examined the Christian worldview. He eventually earned a Master\u2019s Degree in Theological Studies from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. [<strong>Empahsis<\/strong> added.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">I am confident you will enjoy hearing his approach to evaluating the evidence for the Gospel accounts, and the Christian worldview. If you&#8217;re planning to attend, let me know\u2014perhaps we can sit together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are once again planning the details for our 2015 Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction. It will be held May 2, at Grace Church in Eden Prairie, MN. If you will be in the Twin Cities at that time, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/ministry\/2015-benefit-dinner-silent-auction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}