My Bible Journey

How It Started

I started my Bible journey in 2025 as a promise to my wife. We were going to read the Bible together and grow in understanding, side by side.

That lasted about two weeks. I wasn’t taking it seriously, so she went on ahead — her journey, and eventually, without meaning to, mine too.

I decided to catch up my own way. Every morning and evening, during my hour-and-a-half commute to work, I listened to Scripture. Three months later, I had heard the entire Bible. I was proud. I told my wife, half looking for the validation I felt I’d earned.
She asked me one question: “What did you get from it?”

I sat with that for a moment, then answered with some jargon and a few parables I could recall. She looked at me and said, “That’s what I thought. Nothing.”

Realizing I Was Wrong — For the Right Reason

I was stunned. Frustrated, even. I went back through what I’d heard, confirmed some of the stories, and debunked a few lies I’d picked up along the way — things I’d heard used to twist Scripture into something it wasn’t. How could she say I got nothing out of that?

But she was right. I had gone through the Bible for the wrong reasons. I hadn’t grasped the totality of what it actually meant. I’d collected information. I hadn’t let any of it in.

Starting Over, This Time With Company

So I started again — this time with a Bible study guide my wife had found through friends on Instagram and TikTok. She was already using it alongside AI as a study reference and study partner, and I figured: why not do the same?

I began answering the questions, working through the study, but if I’m honest, my heart wasn’t fully in it. I was going through motions again.

Then I hit the Epistles. Somewhere around Daniel and Nehemiah, something shifted. Daniel’s faithfulness through every circumstance thrown at him. Nehemiah’s insistence on togetherness and accountability in approaching God. I’d heard these stories before, but I hadn’t really heard them. This time, every book was hitting differently.

The Moment Everything Changed

When I started the New Testament — right after John — my wife took the book out of my hands and tore it up.

“If you’re not going to apply anything you’re learning,” she said, “then what’s the point? You don’t read the Bible to read it. You read it to learn how to be a better person.”

From that moment on, I went through it one chapter at a time. No more racing to the finish. And whether you call it timing or something bigger than that, every single chapter had something to say about who I was and who we are as human beings. Chapter after chapter, letter after letter — it was an eye-opening experience I couldn’t keep to myself.

Why I’m Sharing This

This is my attempt to pass on what I’ve learned — the transformation the Bible has worked in me. I’m not here to preach at you or tell you where you should end up. I’m offering a path toward your own understanding, at whatever pace feels right for you.

That’s what T&R: Transformation and Restoration is.

The program is built in four stages — three of them structured and guided, and a fourth that’s entirely self-paced, designed to carry your study into a lifelong habit rather than something you finish and set down. Move through it in a little under a year and you’ll have read the entire Bible at least three times — but I’d encourage you to slow down wherever a chapter is speaking to you. That’s where the actual transformation happens.

My hope isn’t that you finish the program. My hope is that it changes you into the person you were made to become.

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