Despite growing up in a Bible teaching church, being raised by believers, and memorizing verses, the stories of the Bible lived in me as scattered, jumbled pieces. With a new translation, I read straight through for the first time, with a highlighter in hand, and made connections that were previously missed. I was trying to highlight the essential action without getting bogged down in details. The notes from this effort became the Bible Trail. It is a Bible summary of 21 highlights that I consider the scenic overlooks for the main thread running through the Bible.
Each stop along the way includes text of the Bible word-for-word and uses three dots, “…”, to indicate some omitted text. When you want to read the omitted text, chapter and verse references make it easy to fill in the gaps. For each “…” some time passes and there is more for you to discover. Sometime a moment passes; sometimes it is hundreds of years. With the trail guide you will connect the dots to see the Bible as a single story. Most stops on the trail take about five minutes to read. Each scene also includes a key phrase, and brief intro and brief connection to the next scene.
Please know this translation is one God used to open my eyes to the way the Bible fits together as a whole and that is the reason the scriptures are from the New Living Translation.
Scott Combs
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.