The Bible starts where it should:
in the beginning.
By kicking off the most important book in history with these words,
God tells us something:
We need to pay attention to where things started.
God cares about how things began.
Do you have a problem?
If you go to God for the solution,
He will probably take you back to where the problem began,
there you and He will correct it together.
Go back far enough, and you will find God.
And, if you need it, you will also find a new beginning.
I just started a through the Bible video series, and the above is a snippet from the first video which is found here.
Getting through the Bible is so challenging for so many people. And I get it. It’s an intimidating book. And, if you don’t know how to read it, you can quickly get lost or bogged down. So I wanted to make it easy without watering it down or insulting a viewer’s intelligence.
I decided to go at it like this:
Each video will contain passages from the Old and New Testaments. I’m trying to tie together related passages so viewers can see the flow of thought through the whole Bible.
I’m using my own rendering which you might love or hate. I don’t pretend that it’s some new scholarly translation of the Bible, but I do think it helps make things more clear (plus it keeps me out of copyright trouble).
I plan to take some creative approaches to family trees, laws, geography, architecture—some of the parts of the Bible that can cause some readers to tune out.
Anyway, I hope it meets a felt need for someone out there so that we can achieve our ultimate goal—sharing the heart and mind of God to invite people to experience the great love God has for each of us.
Much love from my home to yours!
Dwight
