God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty

I read this book as a sort of review of Christian evidential apologetics’ and as an attempt to keep abreast with the typical works out there. While my apologetics methodology is different than that of the author I did appreciate this book and attempted to read this book graciously. I must say I did appreciate this book.
I thought it was helpful that the author’s background involves evangelizing college campuses to students for over two decades. He’s dealing with people with tough questions and challenges and have some capacity to reason. The book even have some stories from the author’s evangelism experiences.
There are ten chapters in the book which are sandwiched with an introduction and a conclusion. Chapters one and two were introductory in that it address the renaissance of Christian apologetics (“God’s not dead”) and a discussion of how true faith is not blind faith respectively. I felt I didn’t know why the author decided to have chapter three on the problem of evil before the other chapters that presented the classical arguments for the existence of God. A bit different than perhaps most format of Classical apologetics work. Here I was pleasantly surprised that the author mentioned Cornelius Van Til in his discussion about the problem of evil. Van Til was quoted as saying that without God then the problem of evil wouldn’t make sense in that there wouldn’t even be good or evil. Thus the objection is unintelligible without the premise that God exists and is the source of morality and ethics. The chapter pointed out the problem of accounting for morality and ethics without God. It’s a powerful argument and no doubt the author recognizes it too. However I wish the rest of the book would have been just as strongly “presuppositional.” The other chapters argued in quite the standard evidentialist fashion for the existence of God, that life has meaning and purpose, Jesus and the resurrection and Scripture is reliable, etc. Another thing that was a little different in this book is chapter nine’s discussion about “the grace effect.” I thought it was a discussion of how God’s grace changes everything.
Sometimes when I read an apologetics work that’s written for the general audience I like to look for illustrations to borrow, improve or stir for more fresh ideas. I appreciated the author’s illustration refuting the skeptics’ argument that often dismiss the existence of God because of Christian hypocrisy: That’s like someone saying to an immoral person that their evil deeds mean that their parents don’t exists. My memory is a little hazy but I also like the author’s illustration from Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga that puts in perspective the atheist’s argument that a creator isn’t an explanation for the world existing since there’s a need for another explanation behind that one is analogous to someone saying there’s no explanation for why a vehicle works because the person doesn’t have another explanation behind the explanation. It’s rather foolish.
Overall a good book by the standard of evidential apologetics. His quote of Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga made me wanting more from him.

Covers lots of solid evidence, including leading edge scientific work currently being done, for the existence of God.

JUST GET IT. YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED.

Really liked this man's approach to explaining how God's Not Dead in society and culture today. Most of the time the media and academia portrays Christians as ignorant and brainwashed. However, most Christians do this to themselves as well by not studying and understanding apologetics so they have a leg to stand on when confronted with difficult questions. They stand there and honestly think, "I've never thought about that." If you're one of these people, read this book. I study apologetics and STILL liked this book, agree with about 90% of it, and really enjoyed Broocks' practical approach.