A Personal Word

Preparing this publication and the video series upon which it was based has been a supreme joy and privilege and something I wanted to do for years. I studied Greek in college and Hebrew in seminary, the primary original languages in which the Scriptures were written. I had hoped and expected that my life would be spent teaching the Bible. But it did not work out that way, and my vocation has been largely in film and video in the field of Christian history.

Nevertheless, the Bible comes to mean more to me every year. I started taking it seriously when I was 16 years old, and for the past 40 years I have read in and reflected on the Bible just about every single day. Its riches and diversity continue to amaze me. I find even in familiar passages things I never saw before. I now find a magnificent humor in the Bible that previously eluded me, and at other times I am reduced to tears from its pages as I discover in new ways what the Bible says to me and to our world today.

If I had to sum up what the Bible is all about it would take just a few words-From God, To You, With Love.

Discovering the Bible and what it reveals is indeed a lifelong adventure! Find out for yourself.

Dr. Ken Curtis, President Christian History Institute