Tonight was our AWANA awards nights. Awana is a club where kids memorize God’s Word, play games and learn lessons through story time. This was Katy’s first year in the club.

She was one of two girls to earn three awards tonight. She finished her book (26 unique verses), went back and repeated them through review and then learned 17 more verses through a workbook. I am very proud of what she has done. She has really hidden God’s Word in her heart.

I am amazed at how quickly she can memorize something and she also thinks about it. Lately she has been asking some really deep questions about things she has read in her Bible or things she has heard Anne and I talking about. I have nicknamed Katy “my little theologian.”

One of the resources that Campus Crusade put together to help Christians use The Da Vinci Code as an opportunity to dialogue about issues of faith is a podcast of Josh McDowell’s book, The Da Vinci Code: A Quest for Answers. This podcast is a dramatic reading of a fictional story in which three college students launch on a quest for the truth as they read The Da Vinci Code.

Josh has used a fictional format to address the fiction of The Da Vinci Code. Although The Da Vinci Code is a fictional book, Dan Brown tries mixes in a lot of fiction that rewrites historical fact. Josh’s book does a great job of exposing the truth and countering the deception of Dan Brown’s fictional work.

The podcast is available through iTunes, a place where many young people are purchasing music and engaging with the pop culture. The podcast of Josh’s book has climbed from #16 to #2 of the most popular podcasts on iTunes.