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Dear Mr. Dan Brown,
I want to take this opportunity to express gratitude to you for writing the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code.
1) Thank you for making it so easy to talk about Jesus in public. I have found The Da Vinci Code to be one of the best ice breakers ever for talking […]

I have the privilege this weekend of leading a session with Alex McManus’ International Mentoring Network on “Missiological Interpretation of the Old Testament” in Pasadena, California. My wife, myself, and four friends will be in Pasadena for most of next week attending the Origin’s Experience through Mosaic Church. If any of you will […]

As the May 19th premier of the film The DaVinci Code approaches, too many Churches are already moving in knee-jerk fashion to debunk the claims of a work of fiction. Books by evangelicals on the historical inaccuracies of the DaVinci continue to be published and consumed at an almost humorous rate. I am […]

I want to begin a series of essays on Jesus radical call to discipleship in Matthew 16:21-28.
NIV Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that […]