A New Year

I can hardly believe it is already 2006. And I haven't updated my blog since September. I don't know why I've been having such a hard time writing lately. Maybe I did a little too much writing last year -- the Lectio Divina study on John, a couple weeks' worth of devotionals for Light from the Word, and several commentaries for Teacher's Helps. Last year this time I finished a huge project (for me, anyway) for my sister's computer company that they never did anything with. Nothing like feeling you're wasting your time writing to keep you from doing it!

Even though I haven't blogged, I've still been doing something. I spent the past month and a half trying to get all my old writing typed into the computer (much of it I lost on an old laptop that quit working about 4 years ago). Rebecca (precious 17-year-old daughter) helped with some of the typing. Then I worked at putting together a store on eBay to sell my writing as ebooks (in PDF format that every computer can read). At the time I started this project, I was convinced that this was something God wanted me to do. But now I wonder. I am so inept at business strategy. I have no idea how to market my writing, and sometimes I wonder why anyone would care what I have to say anyway. But I'll give it a try.

I am most excited about having my apologetics material available on the web. I taught several apologetics classes at our church in Wisconsin and then developed my own material based on hours and hours of study and seeing what worked with students. I must admit that I am very proud of this work. It's concise, but it is also full of good, practical, logical information. I am hoping it will be a great help to many people.

So what's up for the new year? My one goal is to write a book I've been thinking about for 10 years now. I hate the thought of writing it, because I know I'll be branded a heretic by most of the Christian world (at least the vocal Christian world). I want to call the book "Rethinking Revelation" and tackle the whole issue of the Second Coming, the Rapture and the Millennium. I am so weary of all this pretribulationism and dispensationalism I hear nowadays. I don't think Scripture teaches what they teach, but I don't want to write a book just to be "right." I want to write something that will motivate and inspire. So, I have a lot of thinking to do. And I could use any insights any of you out there have to offer.

In the meantime, if anyone is interested in my ebooks (electronic books that must be read online -- they're not printed for you, though you can print them yourself if you want to), visit my eBay store at www.stores.ebay.com/biblebasicsandbeyond.

Watch over the next couple days for my New Year's Resolutions. I never do them before the first of the year, because New Years Day is a holiday, and I usually break them all the first day. So, I'll be forming mine before the end of the first week of the year. Hope you are working on yours, too. Until then....