I’m so glad you’re here! Thanks for stopping by on this visit.

This is my first blog so I’d like to share the experience that inspired this website.

God asked me a question, “Ren, thinking about all the different countries you’ve been in and all the different people groups you have dealt with, what one thing comes to your mind?”

I thought about that and replied, “Lord, most people believe there is a god of sorts, like ‘the man upstairs’, or ‘the big guy’ or whatever. But many admit they do not read the Bible because it’s hard to understand. So they don’t know you, the God who reveals Himself in the Bible.”

That’s when God led me to the book of Hosea 4:6 in the Old Testament in the Bible. It says, “My people are being destroyed because they don’t know me.”

That experience inspired me to write my book – The Bible Is Easier to Understand Than You May Think. That led to this website – makingthebiblesimple.com.

So here I am trying to solve a problem that seemingly most people have.

PROBLEM: Most people don’t read the Bible because it’s hard to understand.

SOLUTION: Make the Bible easy to understand then people will read it.

Do you feel the Bible is hard to understand? If you do, I don’t blame you. I’m with you and fully understand. I felt that way for many years and found out I wasn’t alone. Because the Bible was difficult for me to understand, I didn’t read it. I ignored it. I lived as if the Bible didn’t exist. Then I lived as if God didn’t exist. That’s a problem.

I’m offering a solution to that problem. No matter who you are. What your background is. Where you live. Your economic status. Your level of education. I’m convinced the solution of making the Bible easier to understand, will work in your life as it works for me.

I present that solution in my book. For example on page 17 I summarize the entire Bible in one simple statement: “The Bible has one central message with one main character – Jesus.”

That’s it.

I follow that central message all the way through the Bible from the beginning to the end; from the first book of Genesis to the last book Revelation.

Another example for making the Bible easier to understand is that I trace the Bible’s central message chronologically by giving dates for when something happened in the Bible. Dates add realism to the Biblical stories. They cement the truth that what happened in the Bible actually happened in history on this mud-ball called planet Earth. That makes the Bible come alive for me. I believe you will experience this also.

To illustrate, we can hear about the story of Daniel in the lions den. It’s a fun story to hear as a child. And as adults we can listen to it with sincerity, appreciate it and easily pass it off as something that happened a long time ago. But if we learn that story actually happened around 500 BC, to a real man named Daniel, who was a Jew, exiled with thousands of other Jews to a city called Babylon, which was located in the country of modern day Iraq, close to the Euphrates river; the story comes alive and gets more realistic.

I’ve learned that if we read biblical stories as we read novels, the meaning of those stories comes clearer to us. Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying the Bible is a novel. It is not. What I am saying is, if we read the verses of the Bible in their historical context, like we read a historical novel, we will get into the text better and then the Bible is easier to understand.

Along the way I try not to use big words or jargon. For example instead of using “sanctification” which means to sanctify or make holy, which in turn means to clean up, I just say “clean up.” As in “God loves you and cleans you up.”

My purpose in life is to enable people to know God. That is why I wrote my book and why I have this website. To me, knowing God is the most important issue in the lives of people. The road to knowing God is understanding the Bible. That’s why I’m making the Bible easier to understand.

I hope this first blog was good for you. Will you please let me know what was of helpful or not helpful? I look forward to your comments. The Lord bless you in Jesus name.

Ren