Presby-Musings

So, for the past nearly two months I have been teaching a study on the book of Revelation entitled, "The Apocalypse of John ."  We have been live streaming the teaching sessions for anyone who wants to watch at home, and the videos have also been available to re-watch for anyone who would like to see them again, or catch up on the series altogether. I am also blogging on Tumblr (although I am pretty far behind the sessions at this point!) what will eventually become a companion guide for the videos themselves. You can follow along at tumblr here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/leonbloder Below are the sessions with links to the videos that you can view. Session One - "How Do We Read Revelation?" https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1917279/events/3445563 Session Two - "The Origin and Context of Revelation" https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1917279/events/3470132 Session Three: " God , The Lamb , Seven Seals and Seven Trumpets ...

Last year I attended Rob Bell 's very first 2Day event in Laguna Beach, CA and it pretty much changed my life.   I blogged about it here , and here , and here  and here .  There were others, but I don't want to bore you, or to give you the impression that the only thing I blog about is Rob Bell.  I blog about other stuff.  I promise. But in this case, I mention Rob Bell because he said something really profound that changed my life.  He said that many of us didn't create art, write books, blog--whatever because we thought that it had already been done before.  Then he said, "But not by you."  I went home with those words stuck in my head, and I found the manuscript to "An Offering" and I started working on it again.  Then I added more essays, and then I decided to do something crazy---publish it myself. Getting published is hard.  It's hard because you get rejected---a lot.  It's hard because it really is all about who you kn...