A trip to the Holy Land! Check this out!

http://biblecontest.newlivingtranslation.com

This is the story about the effect that reading the New Living Translation had and still has on my life.

When God first gave me the urge to read His word, I tried to read the KJV, but couldn't understand it. I tried the same thing with the NKJV, but the reading level was just too complicated for me. I came across my NLT which is the complete reference bible version from tyndale. It really made the Bible come alive to me in ways that just amazed me. I started to hear God speak to me through His word, and it was through the reading of the word at this time that the Lord called me into the ministry. I had received my calling many years ago, (age 14), but decided to run from that calling because I looked at my current Pastor and thought, "There is no way I could be like that." I didn't realize that God didn't want me to be my Pastor... He wanted me to be His servant. I ran away from Him, got into drugs and Meth, and practiced Wiccan. Well, as time went by I got married and had our first child, (Caine), and realized I didn't know how to be a father (wasn't raised with mine), but I do remember the Bible and how God was called a Father... maybe He can show me how. Back to the NLT... I was enjoying my reading time and felt that calling on my life again reading my favorite version,(NLT), and started looking for confirmation. Not only was the Lord calling us into the ministry, but also the missions field. My wife and I started attending Calvary Chapel Carroll County for the next eight years. During this time I got licensed and ordained as a Pastor. We do teach from the NKJV from the pulpit, but I use the NLT as my trusty secondary version to help me understand troubling passages. My wife, three children and I are getting ready to go to Vajta, Hungary for missions training at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe and at this very moment I am getting that original NLT that I first had in the beginning rebound to go with us. (By the way... that very bible has been to Niceragua with me on missions as well.) NLT... Don't leave home without it.

God Bless,
Aaron Green