You guys, today I am so excited to tell you about something that I'm launching this fall.

It's called Bible Study Live. And let me just back up for a minute and tell you exactly what's going on.

I would say it's probably been six years or so ago now. My husband and I went to Rome, Italy, and it was one of those pipe dreams

where we both had always wanted to go. I grew up an Italian family. My husband, like most guys,

was always obsessed with Rome, Roman culture, all of that. And when we got married, we said we wanted

to go to Rome for a honeymoon, but we just couldn't afford it.

Like most young couples, we just couldn't figure out how that worked.

We had never traveled internationally at that point.

And so there was just a lot of things that were stopping us.

But for our anniversary that year, we decided that we were going to pull the plug and we were

going to do it.

And, you know, we look back at that time now and we just laugh because we're like,

well, what is there to do in Rome? We'll go see the Coliseum, but then what? And we kind of thought that

maybe we were going to get bored being in Rome for five days. Little did we know that we would soon

become obsessed with Rome. We've been back several times. In fact, I'm going again at the end of

the month. We're going to a different part of Italy, but we are spending some time in Rome,

and we've taken our children. It's just become a place that has been so meaningful for us.

But my first trip there, we did something that changed things for me. We, of course, went to the Coliseum. We did all of the

Trevi Fountain, the gelato, the food, all of the touristy things. But I started wondering what I was

missing. And, you know, at that point in my life, I had been to seminary the first time. At that

point, it was more focused on ministerial leadership

and the things that I needed to do in order to be a good and effective pastor. But I started to

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