I didn't know what to think, whether they were legitimate or small time. My reaction was kind of mixed: This could be a cool idea or what is this show gonna really be about? I wanted to find real truth and not expose Jesus as a fraud. They were pretty honest and up front, so I decided to commit to it.

To begin with, I had to take my faith and my beliefs and set them aside, so I could take an objective approach. I wanted to know why I believed the things I had been told. Through the whole process, it strengthened me. I feel I am more of a believer now than I ever was. There are some skeptics' views that really make a lot of sense. I really had to wrestle with them. Scripture comes to life now in a way it never had.

Obviously this was quite an unusual thing to hear.

There was nothing I could do to try to reproduce it, so I did some symbolic illusions. . . . We had to go into skeptics' views, such as maybe Jesus never did actually die on the cross and maybe Jesus was never put into the tomb.

I tried to figure out a way to replicate those in some way. Some I couldn't even get close, some I could come up with a convincing version. We turned water into wine. That one was very easy for me to do. The calming of the storm I was able to do, but we show how we pulled that one off with special effects.

Failure was never an option. You never gave up and kept trying until you succeeded.