I'm so glad you asked — because what you're about to read really is the beginning of wisdom. To explain it, I have to take you back to a little boy in South Africa, kneeling to give his life to Jesus. I was 7 years old. What followed was a thing of beauty: I'd lock myself in my room for hours with my little picture book Bible, captivated by a Biblical world so different from the one we know today. I'd have to be dragged out just to eat lunch — a little boy hungry and thirsty for the Word, so much so that even physical hunger was subdued. I was eating spiritual manna. .

Now I don't tell you this to brag, but to paint the picture of what happened next.

One day, over the lunch table with my big family — seven of us — I was being my usual joyful self. An absolute firecracker, running on nothing but youthful energy and hours and hours of time with God. Looking back as an adult, I get how that could be a lot to handle, 24/7. To this day, I can't remember what I said or did at that table. But I remember the look on my father's face. And I remember what I said to myself next.

Fast forward 28 years later, and what the enemy meant for my destruction—God had other plans.

It's September 1st, 2022. My father has recently passed on to be with Jesus, and I'm watching a video called “The Father's Blessing“ — a recording of my mentor, John Paul Jackson, closing the broadcast with a Father's blessing prayer.

And what happened next I will never forget.

I could feel something rising up from deep down within me — bubbling, fizzing, and then becoming a fire deep within my bones, the way prophets like Jeremiah and Isaiah describe it. Today I'd call it electric: real electricity, coursing through my veins as the prayer ended. The power of God filled every fibre of my being and put me flat on my face before Him — like I'd been struck by lightning made of love.

This is the single most intense thing that has ever happened to me. It wasn't scary. It didn't hurt. But it was overwhelming, all-encompassing — His Holy Spirit coming down and doing His work in me. So much hurt, so many wrong ideas about who He is, and yes, sin itself being obliterated in His presence, right there as I lay flat on my face, bawling my eyes out, able to say only: “Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! You are real!“

This experience — and everything that followed — is what I call the F.O.G.: the fear of God that makes you a friend of God. It isn't necessarily scary. But it is confronting, because in that moment you realize just how completely other He is. He is the all-encompassing, fiery One — the kind whose very eyes burn like fire, and anything that gets near Him, the way the seraphim do, is set ablaze. Get too close to the sun and you'll be incinerated. He made the sun, and He blazes infinitely hotter. Even just seeing His back, in the cleft of the rock, the way Moses did, left Moses' face glowing with glory — and left Moses thankful just to be alive, and on His side. I know the feeling Moses!

But here's the thing I had to get my head around: our Abba Father will do this, in some shape or form, for every one of His children — not as religious duty, but as Himself, made real to you. It might not look as dramatic for you as it did for me — maybe it's a quiet certainty that settles in on an ordinary Tuesday, or a single verse that suddenly reads like it was written just for you. But He will always do something personal. Something that's specifically yours, inside your relationship with Jesus.

And through this process I have come to realize that there are a few simple things you can do that will forever change your relationship with God and His Word—and if I had to condense it into just one thing it would be:

Like a fine meal, sit down and take your time with it. Don't just read the Word for the day and move on — start doing simple things like:

And after all this — tell people! The very first thing I wanted to do was tell people how much bigger the story of the Bible and Jesus really is than most of us were ever taught. That desire hasn't faded — it's still just as natural today as it was then.

And when you do, there's a real blessing in it: you're fulfilling Jesus's call to be His witness. It builds its own momentum — the Holy Spirit gives you more to share, the more you keep showing up to spend time with Him.

So I encourage you: share this, invite your friends and family — even just to this page, or to one of the other 45,000+ pages on this site built to help the Bible come alive again. As a club member, when you invite others in, you'll be connected into Bible study groups so you can read together — working toward the Bible Challenge, a milestone so few Christians ever reach: reading the Bible cover to cover. Join today.

And everything that you need to begin the process of savoring the Word for yourself is right behind the curtain.

And I do mean everything:

And all of this combined will lead you to fall in love with the Word, and to never read it the same again—as you begin walking more and more fully in the light of His revelation, that only comes from Him as you take the time to sit with Him. What I call having a coffee with Jesus.

And this website has been purpose-built to help you develop this daily habit in a rewarding and fun way as you progress through the Bible—where at the end of it, you will get your certificate of completion, every single time you do the Bible Challenge.

You are going to love it, and I can't wait for you to join and invite all your family and friends on this exciting journey in the Word together.

God bless—and see you on the inside.