I'm on a mission to blog through the entire Bible. Would you join me?

As a minister for over 20 years, I've sat across countless tables from people who have struggled to understand the Bible. "It's too hard" or "I don't see it" or "It's not for me" are usually the things I hear the most.

I get it. So many commentaries and books are written not for the everyman, but for the academic who piles through book after book to parse Greek words and uncover some abstract theory. If you think that's what Bible study is about, you're in the wrong place. My goal is to help as many people as I can appreciate the simplicity and beauty in God's written Word.

Every book in Coffee and a Bible Reader's Companion series is designed to take you through the Bible as if you and I were having a conversation. We'll read a little, then when we come to a part that makes us stop, we'll talk about it. That's the idea.

In Exodus, the story moves away from how everything started to how God formed a nation for Him out of a group of slaves in Egypt. Yes, they were children of promise, but they were also people with very little understanding of Jehovah. Exodus shows how they went from an oppressed people to liberated freedmen with a national--and religious--identity.

As with every book in the Bible Companion series, the point is to slow down and go deep into the Text. I believe firmly that real spiritual growth comes not just from reading the Word of God, but digesting it slowly. Reading, meditating, thinking, applying--those are the bedrocks of Christian growth.

I can't wait to walk through Exodus with you. Let's get started!