Editor's Note

Thank God for Christian mothers.  My mother took us children to church, and I became a born-again Chistian by age four.  You get born-again when you hear or read the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ (see John chapt. 3), and say yes to God in answer to his free offer of salvation through Jesus (Romans 10:9,10.)  

With that in mind, it might be best to start reading with the New Testament book of Matthew.  

I grew up with the King James Version of the Bible.  But since my youth, I've felt there was a need for a translation of the Bible in plain American English.  Some translations have come along, but there still seemed to be a lot of room for improvement.

There are warnings in the book of Revelation about not adding to nor taking away from the Bible.  One could send oneself to hell by violating that.  My intention has been to do neither, but simply retell the lessons of the Bible in plain language.  

God is not against translating the Bible into other languages; he's for it.  That's what I've prayerfully tried to do, while neither adding to, nor taking away from.  May God bless you as you read His Book, the Holy Bible.

Frederick E. Hoehn