Awake
Read the passage first. Notice who speaks, the images and repeated words, and what changes within the text.
A Scripture journey by Will Bourne
Bourne Again Through the Bible
A Christ-centered journey through Scripture for understanding, formation, and faithful living.
Open the Bible. Bring your questions.
Learn to read Scripture—and let it form a life.
This series follows the Bible from Genesis through Revelation, giving each book room to speak in its own setting and literary form. Scripture comes before commentary. Reflection, formation, and prayer help the reading move into ordinary life.
You can follow the whole journey or begin with the biblical book before you today. The goal is careful understanding, growing discernment, and faithful living in Christ.
66Biblical books
149Volumes, including the bridge
9Canonical movements
The heart behind the series
How the journey began.
More than two decades of reading, teaching, and returning to Scripture.
Long before these books took shape, Will Bourne was working through the Bible, taking notes, teaching, and asking questions alongside the responsibilities of life, ministry, family, and leadership. The series gathers that long work into a coherent reading journey, giving others a way to enter the text, follow its movement, and carry understanding into faithful living.
Among the many voices that shaped his approach, Will names Jon Courson’s accessible exposition and T. D. Jakes’s gift for communicating the human weight of biblical stories. Those influences helped him value close reading, story, and lived application as he developed his own pastoral voice and commitment to formation.
“My goal is to help them bring their own Bible, read the passage, ask honest questions, and become more faithful readers.”Will Bourne · From the Genesis interview
Genesis became the first completed expression of that vision. Bourne Again Media helped gather, test, and organize the material into books that could serve readers through the whole biblical journey.
Read, reflect, and practice through the four Genesis volumes →Inside the reading experience
AWAKE • ALIGN • ACT
Align
Follow the commentary and test its claims against Scripture. Bring assumptions and easy answers beneath the witness of Christ.
Act
Reflect, pray, and choose one faithful response: truth, restraint, repair, service, rest, or care for someone vulnerable.
A glimpse into Psalms · BA-43551
Prayer while the questions are still real.
The opening Psalms volume moves from the two ways and the Anointed King into danger, grief, injustice, and waiting. Its invitation is to hear the psalm before the commentary, notice its movement, and avoid forcing a resolution the prayer does not provide.
For a first reading, open Psalm 1. Notice the contrast between the tree and the chaff, then ask what counsel is shaping your path. Return to the whole psalm before choosing a response.
“Which voices most consistently define success, safety, and worth for you? What fruit do those voices produce?”Selected reflection from Commentary 1, “The Tree beside the Streams,” in The Two Ways and the Anointed King. The reading invitation above is adapted from the volume’s Scripture-first practice and Living Library key.
Three places to begin
Choose the doorway that meets you.
The World God Made and the World We Broke
Genesis 1:1–11:32 brings creation, human brokenness, the nations, and the God of promise into view.
Read the Genesis opening volume →The Two Ways and the Anointed King
Psalms 1–14 opens the Psalter through counsel, rootedness, kingship, danger, lament, human dignity, and refuge in Christ.
View catalog entry →The Beginning of the Good News
Mark 1–8 follows the opening good news through Jesus’ authority and compassion, the disciples’ partial sight, Peter’s confession, and the first teaching about the cross.
View catalog entry →Before you begin
A few questions about the journey.
Do I need to read all 149 volumes in order?
You can begin with the biblical book that meets your present reading. The canonical order offers the full journey, while the nine movements help you see where one book belongs within the story. Open a book in the catalog to see its volumes in sequence.
How does this help me read the Bible for myself?
Read the biblical passage before the commentary. Notice the speaker, setting, repeated words, and movement. Then use the explanation to test and deepen your reading. Reflection and prayer lead toward a faithful response rather than dependence on the commentator.
What does the opening Psalms volume offer?
The Two Ways and the Anointed King follows Psalms 1–14 through wisdom, kingship, honest prayer, danger, human dignity, injustice, and waiting. Its fourteen commentaries invite refuge in Christ while allowing grief and unresolved questions room to speak.
See Psalms, Volume I →What does the first Mark volume help me notice?
The Beginning of the Good News follows Mark 1–8 with Scripture first. Jesus’ authority and compassion meet the disciples’ incomplete understanding. The reading moves toward Peter’s confession and the call to follow Christ toward the cross.
See Mark, Volume I →Can I use the reading with a household or group?
Begin with the whole passage, discuss one question, and close with prayer and a practical response. Let people choose what is wise to share. The Psalms reading guidance preserves each participant’s freedom to pass and encourages patient attention rather than pressure for an immediate answer.
The reading journey
Nine movements. One sustained story.
Pentateuch
Genesis–DeuteronomyCreation, human rupture, promise, deliverance, holy life, wilderness testing, and the call to remember and choose life.
Explore this movement →Israel in the Land
Joshua–RuthReceiving the land, facing forgetfulness and the misuse of power, and discovering loyalty, refuge, and faithful responsibility.
Explore this movement →Kings Kingdoms and Exile
1 Samuel–EstherKingship, worship, compromise, exile, rebuilding, and courage among vulnerable people. Faithfulness cannot be measured by political power.
Explore this movement →Wisdom and Worship
Job–Song of SolomonRoom to pray, question, sing, seek wisdom, face mortality, and honor love. Each literary form invites patient attention.
Explore this movement →Prophets
Isaiah–MalachiWarnings against injustice and false worship, hope beyond judgment, and the summons to covenant faithfulness.
Explore this movement →Jesus and the Gospels
Matthew–JohnFour distinct witnesses to Jesus Christ: his kingdom, service, welcome, life, death, and resurrection.
Explore this movement →Church in Mission
ActsThe Spirit forms a people and carries the witness from Jerusalem toward Rome through prayer, hardship, and hospitality.
Explore this movement →Letters of Formation
Romans–JudePastoral words to real communities about the gospel, reconciliation, worship, generosity, endurance, truth, and love.
Explore this movement →Revelation and New Creation
RevelationChrist among the churches, faithful witness through conflict, judgment, and the hope of new creation.
Explore this movement →A resource for the next faithful step.
Begin with personal reading, a household conversation, or preparation for teaching. The books are the foundation for further study and teaching resources as the collection develops.
Through the Bible belongs within the existing Living Library. Explore Faith Foundations Restored and Reading Jesus Without Shortcuts for related reading.