My newest ebook, Adventures in Fishing (for Men) is now available for purchase at Amazon and Smashwords.

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Here is a bit more about the book:

Adventures in Fishing (for Men) pokes fun at some of the popular evangelistic techniques and strategies endorsed and practiced by many Christians in today’s churches. The stories in this book show in humorous detail how little we understand the culture that surrounds us or how to properly reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The story also shows how much time, energy, and money goes into evangelism preparation and training with the end result being that churches rarely accomplish any actual evangelism.

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Below is an excerpt from a book I’m writing called Adventures in Fishing (for Men). The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at evangelism. He who has ears to hear…

Some of my detractors have begun saying that even though I founded the  World Fishing Training Center, I was not a successful fisherman because I had never actually caught any fish.

To show them how wrong they were, I decided to write a book. There is nothing better than writing a book for establishing credibility and proving that you are an authority in your area of expertise. After all, the word “author” is in “authority.” I had spent so much money buying books about fishing, attending fishing conferences, going to Africa to fish, and founding the World Fishing Training Center that although it was true that I had never caught any fish, this did not make me any less of an expert in fishing. And a book would prove it.

I initially wanted to write a book called Red Fish, Blue Fish as a way of talking about different types of fishing by Democrats and Republicans, but my agent told me that someone had already written a book with that title. I went down to the library and read this book. It was mostly pictures, and I bet the author has never even caught a fish. Besides, I don’t know a whole lot about politics, and my agent told me to focus on my area of expertise—fishing.

So I wrote this book instead. The book that proves I am a great fisherman is the book you are now reading.

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Below is an excerpt from a book I’m writing called Adventures in Fishing (for Men). The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at evangelism. He who has ears to hear…

After I started the World Fishing Training Center, I had thousands of students who came and went through the courses we offered. But I soon began receiving reports that after the students went back to their homes, few of them were actually doing any fishing. It made me question what we were doing and why. If the students we trained to fish never actually did any fishing, was there a problem with our training or was it a problem with the students.

Upon reflection, I determined that it was the student’s fault. Most of them were not truly committed fishermen. Though they seemed like true fishermen at the beginning, the fact that they fell away and never actually fished proved that they were never fishermen to begin with. They were spurious fisherman.

Somehow we needed to develop a way to determine true fisherman from false fisherman. We could not have any fishermen who put their hand to the rod, and then later turned away. We needed lifelong commitment.

So I sat down and put together a fishing covenant. It was a document which provided the seven proper beliefs and ten proper behaviors of all true fishermen. If a potential fishermen trainee could not agree to this fishing covenant, then they were rejected from our Training Center and were counseled to examine themselves to see whether or not they were into fishing.

Here is the Fishing Covenant I developed:

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